Word: jimming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Maybe it's the bow tie, his Alabama drawl or his professorial demeanor, but when Jim Rogers speaks, even those who disagree quietly rethink their positions. People who challenge him are playfully mocked. Responding to one young business type in the crowd who questioned his thesis, Rogers advised him to "head down to Texas A&M and offer to trade in your M.B.A. for one of their agricultural degrees." Become a farmer, he advised the guy: "You'll make out better than you will with your M.B.A." The man tried to respond but was drowned out by laughter...
...government bonds? Don't tell Jim. "How could anybody in their right mind lend money to the U.S. government at 4% for 30 years?" He draws out the enunciation of "30 years" as if he can't even believe he's saying it, can't believe that anyone could be that stupid. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...Silver. Hmmm. Hardly has that thought sunk in before I'm back to watching Jim prance across the stage, dipping into geopolitics - "whenever in history an established power is being surpassed by a rising power, they clash," he said, referring to a potential U.S.-China faceoff - and giving the audience a peek at what may be his only anxiety, water. Or rather, China's inadequate supply of it. "If they run out of water, all bets are off - it's the one thing you can't do without," he says. Boy, this guy is smart...
Being an American in Asia has never been more humbling. I recently appeared on a panel at a conference in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou with investment guru Jim Rogers and Kirby Daley, an outspoken Hong Kong - based financial strategist. Though both Americans, the two appeared to be engaged in a contest to decide who could bash their home country the hardest. Rogers called China "the next great country of the world," while comparing a debt-burdened America to the failed British Empire. Daley lambasted American economic policy as ill conceived and out of touch. Rogers warned his listeners...
...this two-part, hour-long episode, the entire office heads to Niagara Falls for Jim and Pam’s wedding (finally!). Various things go wrong—Michael failed to make a reservation and has to sleep in the ice room, Pam’s conservative grandmother finds out she’s pregnant and threatens to leave the wedding, Pam has to drive Andy to the hospital when he tears his scrotum while trying to do the splits, etc.—and Pam gets upset because she feels like the wedding has been usurped and ruined...