Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

It seems that everything may now be coming together under VTB Capital to make this happen so I am keen to participate. In 2005 Rogers wrote Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market. ”
In February 2013 Rogers joined the Board of Advisors of the Coalition to Reduce Spending.

Rogers does not consider himself a member of any school of economic thought but has acknowledged that his views best fit the label of Austrian School of economics. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros and creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI). James Beeland Rogers Jr.