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Books by jim rogers author of investment biker goodreads. They dont really quite understand the full historic significance of what is happening in china including many chinese. While leaving, i saw a man in a new, silver land cruiser speaking to one of the employees. 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. He is a lifelong resident of wausau and was retired employee from the state of florida. Rogers predicts a market crash in the next few years, one that he says.
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