Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip

Review Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip 

by JIM ROGERS

Description

Adventure Capitalist is a book narrating Jim Roger’s financial journey around the globe. His financial adventure covered one hundred sixteen countries. Jim Roger made several conclusions of his three-year world travel. Some of them include:

• The beginning of the new commodity bull market
• China’s dominance in the twenty-first century
•  Asian women’s prevalent inferiority
• The impending doom of Euro

Financial market enthusiasts, adventurers and travelers, and global investors will surely find this piece a good read as it will take them to the real-world scenarios and realities that speak volumes about the financial health of the world.

About the Author

Dubbed as the “Indiana Jones of finance” by Time Magazine, Jim Rogers started from scratch to become one of the most known investors and adventurers. He worked for Wall Street after serving the army. A co-founder of Quantum Fund, Roger worked his way to the upper echelon of the investment world, retiring at the age of thirty-seven with a hefty portfolio. He continued his passion for finance as he taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Roger is an adventurer, media commentator, investor, professor, and writer.

Table of Contents

This book contains Jim Roger’s financial pilgrimage. Roger’s adventures are presented according to the following format:

Part One: 1999

1. A Yellow Mercedes
2. Young Turks
3. The Coming Catastrophe of Central Asia
4. The Best Capitalists Are In Communist China
5. A New Asian Crisis: A Shortage of Girls
6. Digital Mongolia
7. The Wedding

Part Two: 2000

1. Into Africa
2. My Broker in Ghana
3. Whirling Dervishes
4. Arabian Nights

Part Three:

1. Sixty Million of Us Wash Away Our Sins
2. The Road From Mandalay
3. Playing Detective in La Paz
4. My Father’s Grave
5. Home Again

Appendix

Index

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