num_pages: 258
description: Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic political and social analysis drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets. Jim Rogers whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up--has enthralled readers investors and Wall Street aficionados for decades. In his engaging memoir Street Smarts  Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure from his early years growing up a nave kid in Demopolis Alabama to his fledgling career on Wall Street to his cofounding of the wildly successful Quantum Fund.In Street Smarts  Rogers takes us through the highlights of his life in the financial markets from his school days at Yale and Oxford--where despite the fact that he didnt have enough money to afford the appropriate pair of shoes he coxed the crew and helped to win the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race as well as the Thames Cup the first of his three Guiness World Records--to his first heady taste of Wall Street in the mid-1960s and his years helping to run the most successful hedge fund on Wall Street. In the course of his new book Rogers offers often surprising observations on how the world works-and what trends he sees in the future. The age of Wall Street Rogers claims when the finance industry drove 25% of Americas growth is over. Tomorrows economy will be driven by those who make things--food energy goods and consumables. He explains why Asia will be the dominant economic force in the twenty-first century and discusses why America and the European Union are in decline and what we need to do to right our economy and society.
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title: Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets
publisher: Crown Business