Adventure Capitalist

Review Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor’s Road Trip

by JIM ROGERS

Description

After the successful debut of Investment Biker, Jim Rogers went another distance and released Adventure Capitalist, a must-have book that carries out an ideology that the most viable method to profit in a global context is to go miles further and go for a global adventure. According to the author, he prefers conversation and deep talks with the most interesting persons than sit next to a diplomat or a foreign minister. This remained as his guiding principle, which the Adventure Capitalist drew inspiration from.

Generally, this is a narration of Rogers and his fiancée’s experiences while traveling to over 116 countries, culture to culture, meeting different people, discovering diverse races, and of course, trying out exotic food. Riding only a yellow Mercedes convertible, the couple delved deeper into nations less explored, including those remote areas of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, East Timor, Myanmar, and Colombia. What made this journey interesting is that they drove through unique places such as jungles, blizzards, and war zones. All of which bore them a close call for escape.

After all the people they talked to, cultures they discovered, and the food they ate, much summed up to one realization: face-to-face and personal encounter provide a panoramic view of the world. It allows one to have a bird’s eye view experience and understanding of the world through economic, political, and social lenses.

More than this realization, the author also drew from experiences to arrive at conclusions:

A new commodity bullish market began
This era is operated mainly by China
A women-based crisis is starting in the Asian region
Pakistan will soon fall apart
India will follow the disintegration
The Euro will soon fluctuate
Angola may become the new melting pot of wealth
NGOs are fraudulent organizations
Bolivia is a sleeping giant and may soon rise to become the world’s upper power.

About the Author

JIM ROGERS is the founding associate of the Quantum Fund. He went to Yale University and after graduation enrolled in Balliol College at Oxford. After serving as an army, he started his career on Wall Street. He also has a background in teaching as he previously worked as a Finance Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

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PART ONE: 1999

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

PART TWO: 2000

Chapter 8: Into Africa
Chapter 9: My Broker in Ghana
Chapter 10: Whirling Dervishes
Chapter 11: Arabian Nights

PART THREE: 2001

Chapter 12: Sixty Million of Us Wash Away Our Sins
Chapter 13: The Road from Mandalay
Chapter 14: The Playing Detective in La Paz
Chapter 15: My Father’s Grave
Chapter 16: Home Again

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Dedication

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