More financial frankness with Jim Rogers

So -- it's true. In this the allegedly most enlightened and sophisticated age through all ages known and unknown, what the smart, hip nations have done is so stupid that even this genuine expert can't find a precedent for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzV9d67Tt-U
Jim Rogers: Never In History Has This Been Seen

Do you think there's a chance that education, prestige, and fabulous wealth are no sign of actual intelligence taking place? Is there intelligent life on earth? Helloooo -- anybody there?

Poor Jim looks older and so tired in that show -- thank God he's so popular with the media and willing to do one interview after another. Showing real acumen, he warns people not to take his word or anybody's for anything. India is the greatest consumer of gold, he says, but he has no confidence in the place -- isn't that interesting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RrIhdNnBdE
Jim Rogers on China's ascension, Wall Street's downfall and Obama's failure

I'm not at all sure I share his optimism for China's future. It is certainly is good to see it abandoning communism in everything but name. Slowly, but slowly..... I watched this documentary today, too -- and it is outstanding!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogaERyc44WE
Meltdown Episode 1 - The men who crashed the world

Play it in the background as you work or game, OK? Produced by Al Jazeera, it shows every bit of the cinematic finesse of a high-dollar ameriKan documentary. Through it you are going to see the exact culprits named, interviewed, and nailed as far as that part went. (Alan Greenscam and scads of others are still on the loose, undoubtedly collecting bigggg speakers' fees.) Be warned, though, that it may leave you with absolutely no respect for the people running things whatsoever. They're either monumentally stupid or epically rotten, and both are a failing grade!

Further proof that the Greatest Country That Has Ever Existed has a negative IQ:

http://www.thedailymeal.com/180000-deaths-worldwide-associated-sugary-drinks

Yes, even the "worldwide" part applies to the Greatest Country: who else got the world consuming soda, chewing gum and cigarettes?

"Blame America first" -- an idea whose time is perilously close to where we're standing. I don't embrace it ipso facto, but wow, it's fun to take out for a spin every morning at 3!

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