How I Cracked the Alpha Code Author:Jim Rogers Wall Street Legend and best-selling Author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the market. — Jim Rogers, who's entertaining accounts of his travels around the world - studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up - have e... more »nthralled readers, investors, and Wall Street aficionados for two decades in such books as InvestmentBiker, AdventureCapitalist, HotCommodities, and ABullinChina. In his engaging memoir, How I CrackedtheAlphaCode, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years growing up as a naive kid in Demopolis, Alabama, to his budding career on Wall Street, to his co-founding of the wildly successful Quantum fund.
Rogers always had a restless curiosity to experience and understand the world around him. In How I CrackedtheAlphaCode, he takes us through the highlights of his life in the financial markets, from his school days at Yale and Oxford- where despite the fact that he didn't have enough money to afford the appropriate pair of shoes, he coxed the crew and helped to win the Oxford - Cambridge boat race as well as the Thames cup, the first of his three Guinness World Records - to his first heady taste of Wall Street in the mid - 1960s and his years helping to run the most successful hedge fund on Wall Street. As a result of his extraordinary success with the Quantum fund, Rogers was able to retire at the age of thirty - seven. Since then he has taught classes in finance at Columbia University, hosted television programs, and traveled the world, seeing first-hand how revolutions in Chile affect coffee prices in Seattle and how shortages of copper in Africa affect electricity brownouts in Ohio.
In the course of his new book, Rogers offers often surprising observations on how the world works and what trends he sees in the future. Explains why Asia will be a dominant economic force in the 21st century. And how he and his wife and two daughters moved to Singapore to prepare his family for the coming changes. He discusses why America and the European Union are in decline, and what we need to do to right our economy and society. The age of Wall Street, Rodger claims, when the finance industry drove 25% of America's growth, is over. Tomorrow's economy will be driven by those who make things - food, energy, goods, and consumables.
Regarded as one of the most astute investors Wall Street has ever known, Jim Rogers once again is at his acerbic and storytelling best.« less