Interview Jim Rogers,
Door: Frank Wiering en George Brugmans
dd. 13 maart 2002:
Jim Rogers: Now you asked where to put your money. You mean countries, you mean industries?
Interviewer: I mean countries, regions.
Jim Rogers: Okay. If there were six of me I would move to China right now because China is going to be the country of the 21st century. The 19th century was the century of the UK, the 20th century was the century of the US, the 21st century is going to be the century of China, you should make sure your children and grandchildren learn Chinese, if you are not going to move to China, at least make sure they learn Chinese because that will be the most important language in their lifetime. If there are more of you, you might consider moving to Angola, Angola soon will be the richest country in Africa. The stupid war may become to an end, the devastating, unbelievable stupid war looks like it is coming to an end. Angola is going to be extraordinary exciting in the next 50 years. Tanzania, one of me would go to Tanzania, one of me would go to Bolivia, East-Timor. There is a huge war in East-Timor recently, that war was not about Christianity versus Islam by the way, it was not about dictators!
hip versus democracy, it was not about self determination versus aggression. If you looked at the TV you would think it was. It was about natural gas. They have discovered unbelievable amounts of natural gas in the waters around East-Timor, well everybody wants that natural gas, there are only a few hundred thousand East-Timorese, so it doesnft take too much to figure out we could all be very, very rich, whoever we are. But East-Timor is a place that if you got the time, go there, because it is about to be a new Kuwait, a small country with huge natural resources, Bolivia.
Interviewer: Why Bolivia?
Jim Rogers: Bolivia, everybody thinks it is a drug haven, it has been, especially if you listen to the American State Department, one word of advise, do not get your investment advise from the US government or any government for that matter, including the Dutch government, but especially not from the US State Department, you will go broke in no time. Yes, there have been drugs in Bolivia for hundreds of years by the way. But in Bolivia they have now discovered huge amounts of natural gas, again natural gas, there is lots of it. The last five years they have found tremendous amounts of natural gas which is going to change the whole country. Plus the whole infrastructure, they are building a new highway system, that is going to open western Brazil, western Brazil and eastern Bolivia, that whole geographic area to the Pacific. This can be and is and will be more a huge agricultural area, but the problem has been that it was so isolated that you couldnft get the stuff out. No matter !
how many soy beans you raised, you couldnft get them out, you couldnft sell them, it wouldnft do you any good, but now they are building the infrastructure. I rode on the road, itfs a brand new road, itfs a fantastic road leading to the Pacific Ocean. And now you can get the stuff from western Brazil, eastern Bolivia. itfs like the railroad, when the railroad went west from America it opened up the whole country, well the same thing is happening in that geographic area, huge natural resources, huge agricultural potential, huge natural gas, lots of spectacular opportunities.
Recent Comments