Peter Schiff Interviews Jimmy Rogers

Peter Schiff
Apr 17, 2006

Last month I had the pleasure of sitting down to an exclusive interview with famed investor and best-selling author, Jimmy Rogers. Among the topics we discussed were China, commodities, the U.S. dollar, and Gold. The forty-five minute, extremely candid and highly provocative interview consisted of my asking and Jim answering ten questions, as well as follow-up questions and discussions between the two of us. I then condensed the interview into a sixteen-page special report, an excerpt from which is reproduced below. To read the entire interview, download your free copy of the special report at:
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Peter Schiff:
Which brings me to my next question: your outlook on gold? You've always viewed gold differently from other commodities. Why?

Jim Rogers:
The supply and demand dynamics for gold have been different from other commodities for two or three decades. I own some gold, but I've always tried to explain to people that they would make more money in other commodities than they would in gold, because of the supply and demand dynamics. Now that has been true for the last decade or so. For lead, in fact, you would have made a lot more money over the past thirty years, the past twenty years, the past ten years, than you would have in gold. But if you own gold, I still don't expect to make as much in gold as I would in things like corn and soy beans. But I own it. However, if I were looking at commodities these days, I would look at things like agriculture, because agriculture, for the most part, has moved up less than metals or anything. You know, cotton is still 50% below its all time high. Soy beans are something like 60% from the all time high. There are fundamental changes taking place. The amount of acres devoted to wheat around the world has been declining for 30 years. The world has consumed more corn than it has produced for five years in a row. That's never happened in recorded history. The worldwide inventories are low, on a historic basis. And that's without a drought. We haven't had a major drought anywhere in the world for some time. We used to have them all the time. Will we never have a drought again? I doubt it. And, by the way, increasing agricultural production is not as simple as just planting as few seeds. Take coffee, for instance. It takes five years for a coffee tree to mature. If you and decided to go into the coffee business today, it would take our plantation a long time to come on stream and mature. . You don't snap your finger, and magically fruit tress cotton plants, soy bean bushes appear. And in the meantime, the price of everything those farmers use is skyrocketing: natural gas, diesel fuel, labor, insurance, etc. Everything they use to produce their products it is also going up in price. So it takes a high price for them to start bringing on marginal land to produce new and more products.

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Apr 14, 2006
Peter Schiff
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Mr. Schiff is one of the few non-biased investment advisors (not committed solely to the short side of the market) to have correctly called the current bear market before it began and to have positioned his clients accordingly. As a result of his accurate forecasts on the U.S. stock market, commodities, gold and the dollar, he is becoming increasingly more renowned. He has been quoted in many of the nation's leading newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Miami Herald, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Arizona Republic, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Christian Science Monitor, and has appeared on CNBC, CNNfn., and Bloomberg. In addition, his views are frequently quoted locally in the Orange County Register.

Mr. Schiff began his investment career as a financial consultant with Shearson Lehman Brothers, after having earned a degree in finance and accounting from U.C. Berkley in 1987. A financial professional for seventeen years he joined Euro Pacific in 1996 and has served as its President since January 2000. An expert on money, economic theory, and international investing, he is a highly recommended broker by many of the nation's financial newsletters and advisory services.

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