Free-Market Analysis: This release excerpted above is interesting because it affirms Jim Rogers's abiding interest in Russia and China. While Rogers has made better and worse calls like any other "guru," his instinct about China so many years ago has proven correct, at least to the present, and for the first decade of the 2000s he proved correct about gold and silver as well.

Jim Rogers's interest in Russia is more recent and we wonder if this will prove out the way China did. He has already claimed to have investments in Russia, and we wrote about them here. We thought his enthusiasm for Russia might have been damped by the recent Syrian military action, as Russia is now engaged in a boots-on-the-ground war in that country. Apparently not.