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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... politicians to justify. Subsidizing food production on a volcanic island that is contiguous to the Arctic Circle is perceived by youthful voters as an increasingly ludicrous extravagance. Quotas governing the wild fishery are also being ...
... politicians to justify. Subsidizing food production on a volcanic island that is contiguous to the Arctic Circle is perceived by youthful voters as an increasingly ludicrous extravagance. Quotas governing the wild fishery are also being ...
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... politicians are now using Gaelic as a form of protectionism—another dead end. The novelist Roddy Doyle was teaching English in Ireland, but was assessed on his Irish if he wanted to keep his job. One must speak Irish to get a job at Aer ...
... politicians are now using Gaelic as a form of protectionism—another dead end. The novelist Roddy Doyle was teaching English in Ireland, but was assessed on his Irish if he wanted to keep his job. One must speak Irish to get a job at Aer ...
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... politician does not want to admit. He may look askance at the unknown Turks personally, but as a productive entrepreneur, he knows he needs Turkey. The capitalist knows that whatever the problem a country exhibits, the underlying ...
... politician does not want to admit. He may look askance at the unknown Turks personally, but as a productive entrepreneur, he knows he needs Turkey. The capitalist knows that whatever the problem a country exhibits, the underlying ...
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... Namik taught me more about Azerbaijan and the new Central Asia than any guidebook could, and far more than I would ever learn from meeting with a bureaucrat or politician or accepting an audience with a “world leader.” I had done my.
... Namik taught me more about Azerbaijan and the new Central Asia than any guidebook could, and far more than I would ever learn from meeting with a bureaucrat or politician or accepting an audience with a “world leader.” I had done my.
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