BBC HARDtalk - Jim Rogers - 17/5/2011 (Part 2/2)

[makronic]

@garryjlindsay

I can think of countless things wrong with that proposal, both structually and morally.

Who regulates this system? People? Who regulates these people? Laws? Who enforces these laws? hmmm... sounds like an administration to me.

People can't govern themselves, it's a naive pipe dream.

[amrans]

Hard talk? Jim doesn't seem to think so

[MOMARMAZHAR]

each and single Word This man said is 1000% True, we will face a big big big economy shity problme due to our politicians and their sins.

i appreciate Jim he is the man who have an eye on economy . in Asia India China Singapore,malaysia and thailand by God there 100 out of 60 people live healthy and wealthy life style. accept to spend on drink and for fun. the Most important thing of our part of life is Relations , They have strong relations and they know lives life like 80s in these countries

[yoyuepz]

@MOMARMAZHAR Not true, as Japan is in asia and they have BIG problems 220% debt to GDP. It is true they are family orintated however this is ture in Italy. The west needs to stop buying crap and start to save more.

[udennyn]

I agree with his water and food thoughts...its so true...

[MetalHeadViking]

BBC just showed what kind of a stupidety they try to spread. But Rogers managed it quite well.

[yoyuepz]

@MetalHeadViking its not just the BBC its everyone living in the British Isles...... I dont even bother to debate it anymore. They always say "they be a way out".... loool dreamers!

[RauheC1234]

Well its HARDtalk. You need some resistance to get a good message out, not two guys sweet talking each others pans off. I think Stephen provides a good and important opposition. He must represent the mainstream way of thinking in these issues. Then we can become aware of the differences between "true or false" ignorance and attention, or at least begin to scratch the surface of reality. And people are not idiots because they have difficulties abandoning old believes, we are all in it together.

[antitheistpansy]

@garryjlindsay Good idea.

[surambaya]

Seems like the interviewer is either getting paid to act stupid or is just plain stupid.

[MsH1h1h1h1]

@surambaya what about both?

[surambaya]

@MsH1h1h1h1 - Lol! Ok, I will take both meaning that he adds a whole new dimension to "stupid"

[WythenshawePhil]

For all those bashing Stephen Sackur - This is his style on Hardtalk! He plays devils advocate and is a ballbreaker. This is the style for this programme I doubt he'd use these angles if he were chatting to him privately over a pint.

[craig4252]

@WythenshawePhil

Yes, it's show business. Rogers handled himself well. He doesn't need softballs tossed to him. He comes from lower Alabama, graduated from Yale and Oxford, and probably made himself a billionaire somewhere along the way. He can handle some ball busting and still get his point across.

[bemy11111]

this is not HARD Talk.... this is insulting the guest.....haha. this BBC fellow is shit !!!

[jizzleone1]

Serious shit @ 2.10

[daraj123]

Stephen Sackur typical british pompus ass asshole

[Sturmpionier03]

BBC sux balls

[MrAhmadsuhail63]

This interview Stephen Sucker is mother fucker sooooooo annoying monkey.

[axltan69]

sackur is just a jackass, or sackass ... he's just arguing for the sake of arguing to make a show. this is a ridiculous interview session. this is not hardtalk but it's just hard to talk to someone who cannot understand simple economics.

[1IIIIIIIIII1]

OH GREAT...NICE TO KNOW THE SECOND HALF OF MY LIFE WILL BE FUCKED UP WORSE THAN THE FIRST HALF BECAUSE CRIMINALS IN THE GOVMENT AND WALL STREET SCREWED US ALL OVER TO MAKE MONEY AND POWER FOR THEMSELVES.

[hume1234561]

sackur is a joke. jim won't be back

[Tomta20012]

sorry but Stephen Sackur is a fucking dumb cunt

[CoolHandLuke1970]

I bet Jim sat there wishing Stephen actually opened his ears and listened to what Jim said instead of obviously not paying attention! Sheesh!

[GuntherL1]

@CoolHandLuke1970 Oh please. He did listen and this was a great interview. Didn't you hear Jim Rogers at the end? "Thank you Stephen, it's been great fun." Do you think Jim Rogers prefers talking to some unprepared moron?

[azascan]

The death of paper currency+outlawing gold and silver= digital currency....the banquor and soon the mandatory rfid chip 666 mark of the beast

[azascan]

I love it the interviewer wants Jim to say that the end is near.....no food no civilization......no future china......NWO MASTERS AND SLAVES......nothing in between

[Ceasar19abm]

Speculators are critical to bringing balance to prices in the long run.... unfortunatley the leftist liberal bbc just cannot understand this and are blinded by morality and so they present false solutions.

[joshtheobjectivist]

SemperForts is all emotion and no logic. Rogers was very clear on this, farms do not grow without investment. Food is extremely low priced right now. Food must be made by farmers, and the average farmer is 58 years old, why? Because there is no money in it. The only reason food prices have been going up lately is because of inflation, and the speculators are obviously hip to this, but they did not create the situation, the central banks did!

[joshtheobjectivist]

It is central banks and their fellow banksters at JP Morgan Chase, Goldman The central banks and their fellow banksters JP Morgan,Sach's, etc. What do you expect investors to do, back a loser? Would you invest money in a economy that is sinking. Semper Forts acts as if Jim Rogers created this situation and that is wholly ignorant. Jim Rogers does not steal, he simply hedges against the insanity of the central banks

[joshtheobjectivist]

Jim Rogers tore that guy up! Silver baby, yeah!

[SluckyW]

I like when Jim says that he only invest his own money. In other words, I'm a baller !!!

[firefox666moll]

I will use this site as a spring board to speak to the people of the uk , buy silver or gold as a long term investment . buy silver eagles. as much as you can afford .

[HeavensHelp1]

This Steve guy is an IDIOT!!! He keeps trying to bait Mr. Rogers, and Jim doesn't take the bait. Good for you Jim! He goes on and on about "Why don't you think that America won't get out of debt?" Look MORON, we are TRILLIONS of dollars in debt, as Jim said; "THEY WILL NEVER PAY OFF THE DEBT!" Geez, do some research why don't you!

[jimbo59153]

Interviewer fail. Jim Rogers win. Enough said.

[semperfortis2009]

DOUCHEBAGS WHO INVEST IN COMMODITIES PUSH THE PRICE OF FOOD HIGHER IN ORDER TO MAKE A PROFIT...by starving people AND..AND.. taking money from all of our pockets through HIGHER FOOD PROFITS IN ORDER TO WITHDRAW MORE PROFITS THAN WHICH THE CAPITAL THEY PUT IN...INVESTING IN FOOD IS THE MOST DESPICABLE THING WEASELS LIKE Jim Rogers. can do.. bascially taking money from us all and putting it into his own pocket

[rumblequake]

LOL @ 02:02 Jim almost said that America is in serious shit.

[anunnaki2006]

We should all stick to physical Gold and Silver bullion and nothing else.

[Esoparagon]

It's people like Jim who invest and make money that keep the whole economy going. He makes money when he invests resources into the production of something there will be a shortage of. It's people like him who put the physical capital into an industry to produce more stuff. It's people like him they make it because society rewards them for their correct predictions and risk taking. Businessmen, investors and entrepreneurs are the ones who structure production for the benefit of the people.

[semperfortis2009]

@Esoparagon investing MEANS TAKING OUT MORE THAN YOU PUT IN... HOW CAN THAT BE GOOD???

[Esoparagon]

@semperfortis2009 No it doesn't. You don't understand capitalism and you don't understand investing. It is taking out LESS than what you CREATED.

[DrReaper]

Food is the next currency lol

[misterMagoo4]

Stephen Shackur is a fanatstic combative interviewer - the best the BBC has. This is was fascinating exchange btwen 2 peoples.

[stealthpakfa]

@misterMagoo4 once again, ur a total buffoon

[damoz89]

this interviewer is a total fucking wanker, hope he holds us dollars and loses it all

[Tasadaru]

"Now America is in serious sh-- . . . trouble." @ 2:02

nice save.

[HIareUmad]

2:01 america is in serious shhhii - trouble... LOL

[Manifold73tube]

Is the host on this show fucking dense? I mean seriously. Why does he even have a show?

[danbuck333]

well done jim you destroyed him

[maj1kninja07]

it is amazing that the financial types profiting off of using fiat currencies never mention how much of the world's debt is based purely on the at interest fiat currencies, and the compounding debt that cannot be payed off ever, their literally isn't enough stuff being used even if every governments around the world stole every object of value down to gravel to out run the debt that would increase because the owners of that debt get to times it by 5-50 creating more currency and debt.

[heckler73]

Jim Rogers is a dotty fool. And it seems there are plenty of crackers in the barrel, who lack any ability for critical thinking or capacity for research, hanging onto his every word as gospel. Keep in mind that people like him eagerly await chaos so they can profit. The idea of a solution (which requires more effort) is utterly foreign to them. Fortunately, he is dumber than he looks.

[DVDBeaver]

@heckler73 'dotty fool'? he's a self-made Billionaire that has travelled around the world twice on his motorcycle. Who, the devil, are you?

[VyseLegend]

While I think the interviewer was a bit of a stooge, he was at least posing the basic question – what if China isn't the holy grail? I also have major doubts about this conventional wisdom...

[Manifold73tube]

@VyseLegend Jim never said China is the holy grail, he is saying China has the best chance to pull through from the impending chaos of World war 3, food shortage etc. He never said it's all hunky dory in China

[stealthpakfa]

@VyseLegend china is the holy grail, deal with it.

[AnOnYmOuSCaTaLySE]

its call hardtalk, but this didnt get me hard ! it disgusted me...that interviewer is an uneducated fucktard

[Tasadaru]

According to Robert Kiyosaki, Clinton took the debt and put it under the unfunded liabilities. Took it off the balance sheet and pasted it onto another that no one looks at for some reason.

[danbuck333]

@Tasadaru its called the ENRON accounting plan

[MisterSilverBug]

@8:30 Salt use to be money, that's where we get the word salary :)

[Kolbe71]

Great reaction of Jim at 8.00 - just what i was thinking too.

[beswick1111]

this reporter is the biggest idiot in the world, he is either a seriously complete F wit, or he is a stooge being paid by the bankers to not let jim finish his sentences!!!!

which one is it:??

[danterada80]

@beswick1111 more of a stooge I would say...amazing how he talks like if the west is a creditor and everything is gonna keep going fine.

[beswick1111]

one thing neither of them mention as to why commodity prices are high is because they are priced in US$ and the US$ is falling off a cliff because of QE2, people are selling US$ and buying commodities, not just because there is little wheat or little oil, but because the US$ is weak and theres no better place to put your money than commodities!!!!!

[huna1950]

say it jim,say it....SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT...I THOUGH HE SAID,UL-RII-KAKAKAKAKA

heard the latest goldman story??-worse that nazi crimes+aztec cannibalsim combines!!!

[jayangli]

Jim looks old here lol

[xtronics]

I think Jim is a little to opportunistic on China short term, but the interviewer is an obvious socialist. Speculators often lose money - Rogers has lost money from time to time - I think he did a good job of explaining why we need speculators - investors so that we have food and energy in the future.

[timmit59]

Jim has driven around the world on a motorbike, then followed it up in a car. How many of these interviewers have even been outside of an overseas airport or recordingstudio? There's textbooks which are always biased and there's real life

[feverpitch82]

Eureka ha ha



[Batavian187]

2:03 America is in serious sh.....trouble.

[amalmavani]

Btw I'm not some blind Jim Rogers fan, I just think that generally he has good views and is someone worth listening to because of his record and because he is a good communicator and logical. Ps I'm also British so I think I'm speaking fairly objectively here. Although I suppose I could be lying about that couldn't I? ;)

[amalmavani]

I agree it's "Hard Talk" but being "Hard" for the sake of being "Hard" is utterly absurd. A smart interviewer would be "Hard" if he thought the subject, here Rogers was being evasive/contradictory/"bs"ing etc... But here Jim is actually being forthright in his views, saying has happened, what is happening and what he thinks will happen. And if you follow Rogers he admits when he is wrong and always says his timing is off. But if you look back, directionally he is often good value.

[overseachininadoll]

Despit all said, I like this show. I think it's great. Both the host and the guest do very well.

[loftgroov]

People.... in case you have'n't noticed, the show is called HARD TALK.

The interviewer is SUPPOSED to be challenging/argumentative.... its the style of the show. He's not going to sit there and tell Jim how wonderful and lovely he is....

[yjfoo23]

People should revere Jim Rogers instead of Bernanke or Goldman Sachs/ JP Morgans financiers.

[amalmavani]

I think this guy thinks that he's being a "tough" interviewer but all he does is make himself look more ignorant & arrogant. He tries to demonise Jim with the whole "people like you make money from speculating and that makes you a baddie" He ignores that speculation, trading & financial instruments including derivatives have actually been around for centuries. Its the regulators/politicians who are to blame and need to intervene where there are abuses in markets. But Jim ain't the problem.

[geniusmarketing08]

@amalmavani Wow, a great interview and unlike the interviewer, Jim didn't even need any notes, lol! Basically Jim explained the future of the economy perfectly..100% agree on all of his wisdom here!

[dikkydoo1]

@amalmavani chris rock - 'dont blame the player blame the game'.

[TheSpiritOfTruth]

@amalmavani Jim's the cure.  Let the markets clear and get to what's true.

[EUImperator]

@amalmavani

This Jim Rogers explains like Hitler. He justify his actions by aguing it would help a farmer uplifting his salary by uplifting the price due of derivate trading completely ignoring that it also creates more inflation hence the money the farmer might get is worthless by the day he got it. It is such idiots like Jim Rogers who believe just in War's and Conflicts as he said he don't cares about Civil War so may be the War starts t in front of his house in Singapure by then...

[jezza1789]

@EUImperator Your a dumbass, why dont you go live in north korea, Cuba, where their is no free market and the people suffer through famine all the time, politicians and central bankers cause the problems and have morons like you believing its the speculators who are correcting the imbalances caused by the goverments and central banks. Read a book kid

[EUImperator]

@jezza178You are just mentally disturbed like Jim Rogers and don't understand Darwinism has brought all that shit to the World but we have to clean the streets from the shit may be from you.

[GuntherL1]

@amalmavani The program is called 'Hardtalk'. Sackur is well informed and asks tough questions, but his opinions may be completely different. What do you expect him to say? "Mr Rogers, I agree with you 100%. Please explain your points during the next 15 minutes."

[KDN888]

@amalmavani without getting into an argument, that is the very point of Hardtalk. The interviewer does that to represent the misconceptions and ignorance of the public. If he asks "correct" questions, people who do not know will be left not knowing. He has to articulate the views of the public as an interviewer, no matter how foolish they may be.

[amalmavani]

This interview is being overly difficult and not letting Jim actually get his points across. Also I thought he nearly swore here! "America's in serious sh--trouble!" Ha. Also the interviewer is trying to make out like Jim is JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs by himself manipulating the market here there and everywhere. When he bets on currencies for example he could just as easily lose as well as make money. And on Oil, he ain't OPEC for christ's sake!

[trozsas]

@amalmavani I think Jim did get his points across. Unfortunately there are people who do not want to understand the free market system because that would make them face the fact that they need to do somithing useful for a living. The interviewer is one of those kind of people. I used to call them communists :-)