Rogers: Buying US T-bills now is a 'terrible mistake'

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Investment veteran Jim Rogers has branded US treasuries as the one of the last remaining asset bubbles left in the world.

He said he plans to short US bonds in the future and to buy them now would be a “terrible mistake”. Rogers told Fox Business Network investors should instead look to hard assets, which will benefit from the US Federal Reserve's continued quantitative easing measures. "I am not short bonds yet but I plan to be short bonds," he said. "If the world economy gets better, you are going to make money in commodities because that is where the shortages are. "If the economy does not get better, they are going to print money and when it does get better, you better own commodities, such as sil...

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