The investment legend who co-created the 4200% myth over ten years with Soros, retired at the age of 37, riding a motorcycle around the world while doing "bargain hunting" investments. In 2005, he accurately predicted the US subprime mortgage crisis. Now, 82-year-old Jim Rogers has issued a stern warning: a catastrophic financial crisis is inevitable in 2026. Even more shocking, he has liquidated all his US stock positions, betting real money on this judgment.

Two ticking time bombs that could explode at any moment:

First: The global debt monster has turned

US national debt has surpassed $37 trillion, with an average of $3 million in new debt added every minute. Last year alone, interest payments totaled $1.1 trillion, more than the entire military budget. Japan’s debt-to-GDP ratio has reached 250%, far exceeding Greece’s 180% during its debt crisis. The total global public debt stands at $315 trillion—basically, all the people on Earth combined still can’t pay it off. The money printed wildly during the pandemic to bail out the economy has now become a death knell.

Second: The tech stock bubble is more insane than during the internet boom

Rogers’ view is this: AI technology itself is revolutionary, but stock prices are purely a bubble.

The seven giants of US stocks (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Nvidia, Tesla) alone account for 36% of the S&P 500 index, a concentration even more extreme than during the internet bubble. Nvidia’s market cap is roughly equal to the combined total of the top 20 European companies.

What’s most ironic? These tech giants keep shouting "AI will change the world," yet they are frantically cashing out. Zuckerberg and Bezos are reducing their holdings, SoftBank sold $5.8 billion worth of Nvidia, and even the famous "big short" prototype has started shorting Nvidia.

Rogers bluntly states: This scene is exactly the same as the night before the 2000 internet bubble burst.