Street Smarts

Street SmartsIn Street Smarts, Rogers 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 didnt 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 Guiness World Records to his first heady taste of Wall Street in the mid 1960s, and his years helping to

In Street Smarts, Rogers 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 Guiness 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.

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. The age of Wall Street, Rogers 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. He explains why Asia will be the dominant economic force in the twenty-first century, and discusses why America and the European Union are in decline, and what we need to do to right our economy and society.