Street Smarts, Jim Rogers
Street Smarts, Jim Rogers
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Street Smarts
Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

Author: Jim Rogers

Narrator: Michael Bybee

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2013


Synopsis

Wall Street legend and bestselling 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 readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for decades. 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 of the wildly successful Quantum Fund.

In Street Smarts, Rogers 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 coxed 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.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. 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. He explains why Asia will be the dominant economic force in the twenty-first century, and discusses why America and the European Union are in decline, and what we need to do to right our economy and society.

About The Author

JIM ROGERS co-founded The Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven.  Since then, he has served as a sometime professor of finance at Columbia University's business school, and as a media commentator worldwide. In 2007, he moved his family to Singapore in order to be at the epicenter of the new financial world order. Rogers is the author of Investment Biker, Adventure Capitalist, Hot Commodities, A Gift to My Children and A Bull in China.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Erwin

Excellent. Couldn't put it down. Jim Rogers best thinking distilled. I've been a fan of Rogers since stumbling onto Adventure Capitalist back in 2003, and was fortunate enough to have one-one-one lunch with Rogers in 2005. Investment Biker and A Gift to My Children are also very much worth reading. I......more

Goodreads review by Toe

When a guy accumulates hundreds of millions of dollars, I’ll listen to him. Jim Rogers is one such guy. He does not reveal his net worth in this book. But the internet estimates it at around $300 million. He uses some of that money to amass an impressive bowtie collection that he peacocks on various......more

Goodreads review by Thejas

Adventures Of A Smart Man...book thoughts on Street Smarts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What would happen if I lived my dream? I would become Jim Rogers. The man made a ton of money on Wall street, rode in 52 countries in 22 months (including some......more

Goodreads review by Vlad

В принципе достаточно неплохая книга. Основная проблема - русскоязычное название (Будущее глазами одного из самых влиятельных инвесторов в мире. Почему Азия станет доминировать, у России есть хорошие шансы, а Европа и Америка продолжат падение) вводит в заблуждение. Кажется, что в книге будут какие-......more


Quotes

"Buy it. We endorse it absolutely and enthusiastically." -Lou Dobbs, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Fox Business Network, February 7, 2013

“More than his outsized wealth and contempt for those in power, though, it is Rogers' knack for outsized fun that makes him seem worth knowing...Street Smarts shines when it conveys that zest.” -USA Today

"Street Smarts" is another great read from one of the most astute global investors of our time. With wisdom, humor, and amusing antidotes, the Investment Biker recounts his life's experiences in a manner that is as entertaining as it is educational. As an added surprise, readers may find his insight on fatherhood even more valuable than his perspective on history, economics, and the financial markets. –Peter D. Schiff; best-selling author, host of the Peter Schiff Radio Show, and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, Inc.

"There are almost no investment geniuses. The only ones I know of are Warren E. Buffett and John C. Bogle and Jim Rogers."  –Ben Stein, New York Times
 
“Jim Rogers makes my head hurt.” –Paul Krugman, New York Times