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Street Smarts
- Adventures on the Road and in the Markets
- Narrated by: Michael Bybee
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
Wall Street legend and best-selling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.
Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world - studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up - has enthralled investors and Wall Street aficionados for two decades in such books as Investment Biker, Adventure Capitalist, Hot Commodities, and A Bull In China . In his engaging memoir Street Smarts, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years growing up a naïve kid in Demopolis, Alabama, to his fledgling career on Wall Street, to his cofounding the wildly successful Quantum Fund.[omit George Soros] Rogers always had a restless curiosity to experience and understand the world around him.
In Street Smarts, he takes us through the highlights of his life in the financial markets, from his school days at Yale and Oxford - where despite the fact that he didn’t have enough money to afford the appropriate pair of shoes, he coaxed the crew and helped to win the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race as well as the Thames Cup, the first of his three Guiness World Records, - to his first heady taste of Wall Street in the mid - 1960s, and his years helping to run the most successful hedge fund on Wall Street. As a result of his extraordinary success with the Quantum Fund, Rogers was able to retire at the age of thirty-seven. Since then he has taught classes in finance at Columbia University, hosted television programs, and traveled the world seeing firsthand how revolutions in Chile affect coffee prices in Seattle, and how shortages of copper in Africa affect electricity brownouts in Ohio.
In the course of his new book, Rogers offers often surprising observations on how the world works - and what trends he sees in the future. He explains why Asia will be the dominant economic force in the 21st century - and how he and his wife and two daughters moved to Singapore to prepare his family for the coming changes.. He discusses why America and the European Union are in decline, and what we need to do to right our economy and society. The age of Wall Street, Rogers claims, when the finance industry drove 25% of America’s growth, is over. Tomorrow’s economy will be driven by those who make things - food, energy, goods and consumables.
Regarded as one of the most astute investors Wall Street has ever known, Jim Rogers once again is at his acerbic and storytelling best.
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- Ahmad
- 15-01-15
Great book
A great inspiring story. The book has a lot of wisdom. I loved the book. Finished it in a few days. Always wanted to know whats next.
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- Mr Ben
- 02-09-17
Intelligent, thought provoking, leaving the reader to decide for themselves.
I have read and listened to interviews with Jim Rogers over the years. I'd recommend this to investors, but more importantly anyone who is curious about world affairs and concerned or/and interested about the changing shape of the world.
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- ShopperX
- 24-10-20
Excellent
Fresh perspective by someone who has traveled to and seen the whole world.
A quick walk displaying the similarities between the decline of the UK, rise of the USA, a parallel to what we are experiencing now, the decline of USA and the rise of Asia in general/ China especially
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- Alexander
- 14-10-15
Just perfect!
Just can't be better. The book I can listen again and again. Jim is a legend.
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- daniel nulty
- 19-09-19
Excellent, thought provoking book
I’ve always enjoyed Jim Rogers when interviewed on tv but this a more in-depth look into his life to see what makes him tick.
His views on the world and markets are both interesting and allows one to form a more longer term view on what’s going on in the world and how to benefit from it
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