Born in Baltimore, a major city in Maryland, U.S.A., the legendary independent investor Jim Rogers would never have believed that an inconsequential remark, ‘if we keep digging, we will end up in China’, made during childhood while digging for a bait for fishing, would turn out to be such a beautiful and fulfilling reality. The avid globetrotter has circumnavigated the earth twice, once on motorcycle and the other by car.
During these travels he investigated the world at ground level and tried understanding its changing courses. Heraclitus put forth the statement ‘nothing endures but change’, Rogers also believes that success in life is measured by the ability to anticipate change. So it comes as no surprise when in the midst of a global financial crisis, which many believed to be temporary, Rogers believing that a seismic change was at hand triggered by staggering loads of debt faced by many countries, leading to....
