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August 22, 2008 – Comments (6) | RELATED TICKERS: DBO , DBC , DBA

I just got finished with Jim Rogers book, Investment biker, a book I would highly recommend to just about anybody. Two things that he said really stuck out to me:

First Basically his whole investment thesis can be summed up in two ways.

“Buy something thats cheap where a dynamic change in its favor is about to occur.” - Page. 100

And second:

“There are two major forces at work as the world moves into the twenty-first century, globalism and tribal control. ow these opposing forces resolve their contradictions will be one of the new century's great historical drama's. The truth is, people need the psychic glue to deeply held beliefs to bind them to others. That we all drink Coca-Cola and eat McDonalds hamburgers is not good enough. We have a powerful need for a strong local identity, one we can comprehend and control, something close to home that we think we reach out and touch. We resent its being destroyed by globalization and gigantism.” - Page 141

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#1) On August 22, 2008 at 11:03 PM, TDRH (99.92) wrote:

I like page 141, but i have not read the book. With this in mind, what beer do you think will be number one in the US with the AB decline. Sorry but the beer is not that good. They have been a fat cow for some time, and have now been gobbled up by IMBEV. A 12 pack of beer is now $12 practically. Do we all start brewing our own, or will there be a new player?

Personally I like Heinekin.

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#2) On August 22, 2008 at 11:03 PM, TDRH (99.92) wrote:

Personally I like Heinekin.

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#3) On August 23, 2008 at 12:27 AM, abitare (99.70) wrote:

JR has several follow on books that is worth reading also.

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#4) On August 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM, kdakota630 (99.93) wrote:

GS751: Thanks for the book review. I've read a couple of Jim Rogers' books. I'll have to check that one out as well.

TDRH: Heinekin?!? Really?!? To each their own, I guess, but that's got to be one of the worst beers I've ever had. Keeping in mind that I'm Canadian so anything I've had here is going to be different than in the U.S. with the same name, but I'm a Bud man, personally, and I LOVE Bud Select which you can't get in Canada. I've heard good things about Robert Simpson which I'm about to try, but you probably can't find it outside of Ontario.

Let me know if you want to talk about whiskey.

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#5) On August 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Tastylunch (29.94) wrote: