Jim Rogers On Bailouts: 'It's Absurd Economics And It's Absurd Morality"

March 17, 2009 RSS Feed Print

Jim Rogers, who when we last checked in was buying farmland, tells Bloomberg TV we're in for the worst time since the '30s, and the U.S. will face "civil unrest" as the economy worsens. Where to invest? He says commodities are the "only asset class where fundamental are improving."

What would he have done differently during this crisis? Pretty much everything. He would've let the worst banks go bankrupt, and says bailing out AIG is throwing good money after bad. As for the fallout, the government's bailouts will debase the currency and ultimately prove inflationary.

Bloomberg summarizes his comments here and the video is here.

 

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the empire is on its last breath. the implosion has started.

jack of IL 6:19PM March 25, 2009

Printing money, borrowing from ourselves by buying treasuries, is wrong. It debases our currency and cheats those countries who hold dollars, loaning money to us. Wrong tactics being taken by this admininstration will harm our country and take years to repair.

Stop the Spending! Stop it now.

Amy Leg of CO 6:15PM March 22, 2009

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Kirk Shinkle is a senior editor at U.S. News. He writes daily about ups and downs in equity markets, sectors and stocks. Formerly, he covered business and economics on both coasts for Investor's Business Daily.

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