{"id":64035,"date":"2016-02-15T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=64035"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:34:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:34:01","slug":"jim-rogers-goes-after-incompetent-central-bankers-02-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/jim-rogers-goes-after-incompetent-central-bankers-02-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Rogers says Central Bankers are incompetent and we&#8217;re all going to pay the price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64037 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Jim-Rogers-Central-Bankers-are-morons.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Rogers - Central Bankers are morons\" width=\"1320\" height=\"742\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Jim-Rogers-Central-Bankers-are-morons.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Jim-Rogers-Central-Bankers-are-morons-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Jim-Rogers-Central-Bankers-are-morons-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Jim-Rogers-Central-Bankers-are-morons-600x337.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1320\/742;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Famed investor Jim Rogers believes Central Bankers have no idea how to do their jobs and we&#8217;re all going to pay the price for their moronic choices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re all going to pay a horrible price for the incompetence of these central bankers,&#8221; he said Monday in a TV interview with CNNMoney&#8217;s Nina dos Santos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got a bunch of academics and bureaucrats who don&#8217;t have a clue what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Singapore-based American investor said central bankers are doing everything they can to prop up financial markets, but none of their plans of action will work.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers admits that some very unconventional practices will likely cause the stock market to rally in the near future, only to run into massive problems heading into 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is going to be a disaster in the end,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You should be very worried and you should be prepared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the most unconventional of practices have been negative interest rates, which are being used to prop up inflation and support various economies around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mistake they&#8217;re making is, they&#8217;ve got to let the markets sort themselves out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been over seven years since we&#8217;ve had a decent correction in the American stock market. That&#8217;s not normal &#8230; Markets are supposed to correct. We&#8217;re supposed to have economic slowdowns. That&#8217;s the way the world has always worked. But these guys think they&#8217;re smarter than the market. They&#8217;re not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Rogers is no stranger to heading towards the unknown, he made a name for himself in the 1970s when he co-founded a top-performing fund with George Soros. He has often invested in areas where others have shied away and it has paid off handsomely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed investor Jim Rogers believes Central Bankers have no idea how to do their jobs and we&#8217;re all going to pay the price for their moronic choices. &#8220;We&#8217;re all going to pay a horrible price for the incompetence of these central bankers,&#8221; he said Monday in a TV interview with CNNMoney&#8217;s Nina dos Santos. &#8220;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":64037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8281],"tags":[10053,10052,10051],"class_list":{"0":"post-64035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-markets","9":"tag-central-bankers","10":"tag-central-banks","11":"tag-jim-rogers"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64038,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64035\/revisions\/64038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}