Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road TripRandom House Publishing Group, 13 may 2003 - 368 páginas Drive . . . and grow rich! The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves that the best way to profit from the global situation is to see the world mile by mile. “While I have never patronized a prostitute,” he writes, “I know that one can learn more about a country from speaking to the madam of a brothel or a black marketeer than from meeting a foreign minister.” Behind the wheel of a sunburst-yellow, custom-built convertible Mercedes, Rogers and his fiancée, Paige Parker, began their “Millennium Adventure” on January 1, 1999, from Iceland. They traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Angola, Sudan, Congo, Colombia, and East Timor. They drove through war zones, deserts, jungles, epidemics, and blizzards. They had many narrow escapes. They camped with nomads and camels in the western Sahara. They ate silkworms, iguanas, snakes, termites, guinea pigs, porcupines, crocodiles, and grasshoppers. Best of all, they saw the real world from the ground up—the only vantage point from which it can be truly understood—economically, politically, and socially. Here are just a few of the author’s conclusions: • The new commodity bull market has started. • The twenty-first century will belong to China. • There is a dramatic shortage of women developing in Asia. • Pakistan is on the verge of disintegrating. • India, like many other large nations, will break into several countries. • The Euro is doomed to fail. • There are fortunes to be made in Angola. • Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are a scam. • Bolivia is a comer after decades of instability, thanks to gigantic amounts of natural gas. Adventure Capitalist is the most opinionated, sprawling, adventurous journey you’re likely to take within the pages of a book—the perfect read for armchair adventurers, global investors, car enthusiasts, and anyone interested in seeing the world and understanding it as it really is. |
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... Soviet Union is now fifteen countries. Yugoslavia is now six, Czechoslovakia is now two, Ethiopia two. Somalia? Who knows? Many of us have heard of the Basque independence movement in Spain, but who realized that three other regions of ...
... Soviet Union is now fifteen countries. Yugoslavia is now six, Czechoslovakia is now two, Ethiopia two. Somalia? Who knows? Many of us have heard of the Basque independence movement in Spain, but who realized that three other regions of ...
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... Soviet Union and the withdrawal of the Russians. For decades Turkey has been trying to become part of.
... Soviet Union and the withdrawal of the Russians. For decades Turkey has been trying to become part of.
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... Soviet Union, and these same functionaries had been very uptight. Leaving the free world and entering the totalitarian world of the Communists had brought one face-to-face, all along the Iron Curtain, with some very sober,
... Soviet Union, and these same functionaries had been very uptight. Leaving the free world and entering the totalitarian world of the Communists had brought one face-to-face, all along the Iron Curtain, with some very sober,
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... Soviet Union. Because nobody owned them—the government had owned them, but now there was no government—whoever had overseen their operation at the time had simply taken possession of them. “It's mine now,” the manager would say, and ...
... Soviet Union. Because nobody owned them—the government had owned them, but now there was no government—whoever had overseen their operation at the time had simply taken possession of them. “It's mine now,” the manager would say, and ...
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... Soviet factory at Soviet prices, which were ludicrous—there was no market pricing at all, because commerce was confined to the Soviet Union. So he would buy chemicals from their manufacturer and, with his export license, sell the ...
... Soviet factory at Soviet prices, which were ludicrous—there was no market pricing at all, because commerce was confined to the Soviet Union. So he would buy chemicals from their manufacturer and, with his export license, sell the ...
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