{"product_id":"book-avvd","title":"Street Smarts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up--has enthralled readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for decades. In his engaging memoir \u003ci\u003eStreet Smarts\u003c\/i\u003e, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years growing up a naïve kid in Demopolis, Alabama, to his fledgling career on Wall Street, to his cofounding of the wildly successful Quantum Fund.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStreet Smarts\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49337842368816,"sku":"BDavvd","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/188081-avvd-Square.jpg?v=1733979912","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-avvd","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}