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James Beeland Rogers Jr. (born October 19, 1942) is an American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. Rogers is the chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management. He was also the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).

Rogers does not consider himself a member of any school of economic thought, but has acknowledged that his views best fit the label of the Austrian School of economics.

Rogers was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in Demopolis, Alabama.

In 1964, Rogers graduated with a bachelor's degree cum laude in history from Yale University. He got his first job on Wall Street, at Dominick & Dominick.