| We talked, in a taped telephone interview
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| | he's now investing in.StockInterview: You
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| at his home in Singapore, with
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| | began investing heavily in commodities,
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| Billionaire Jim Rogers, legendary
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| | at very close to the bottom of the cycle.
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| commodities trader, who picked the bottom
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| | What led you to believe the commodities
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| of the commodities bull market in 1999.
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| | boom would begin in 1999?Jim Rogers: I
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| With George Soros, Jim Rogers co-founded
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| | could see that nobody had been investing
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| the Quantum Fund in 1970.Over the next
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| | in productive capacity in crude (oil)
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| decade, Quantum Fund grew by more than
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| | specifically. For instance, there had
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| 3,300 percent. Rogers retired, later a
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| | been virtually no offshore drilling rigs
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| guest professor of finance at the
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| | built since 1981. There had been
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| Columbia University Graduate School of
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| | virtually no offshore tugboats built to
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| Business, and still later
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| | service the offshore rigs since 1981. In
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| circumnavigating the globe to firsthand
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| | the 1970s there were dozens of them built
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| discover new investment opportunities. He
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| | every year. I could see that people had
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| is widely and often quoted in the media
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| | cut back their exploration budgets
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| about his views on the commodities
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| | enormously. It was pretty clear that
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| market. Bestselling author, investment
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| | nobody had been investing for fifteen or
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| biker, adventure capitalist and widely
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| | twenty year, in looking for new (oil)
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| followed, Jim Rogers talks about what
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| | fields.
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