Jean-Pierre Van Rossem is an Influental Belgian stock market guru, Professor, Private teacher, economist, econometrician, author, philosopher, Public figure, politician and former member of the Belgian parliament
He studied economics at the University of Gent in 1963-67. With his final term paper 'De omloopsnelheid van het geld : theoretische begripsbenadering en praktische toepassing in België' ("The velocity of money : theoretical approach to understanding and practical applications in Belgium") he won the International Scholarship of Flanders-prize and was able to study two years of econometrics under Noble Price winner Lawrence Klein at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He became famous with as stock market guru with 'Moneytron', a stockmarket investment company that could offer endless returns. his costumers included everybody who had money in Europe including the Belgian Royal Family. The Moneytron was supposed to be a super computer able to predict economic fluctuations, and the access to its room was strictly forbidden, behind a closed door in Van Rossem's office.
Van Rossem had developed a model that could predict the stock market and beat the capitalist system. At its height Van Rossem Personaly owned '860 Million Dollar' or '320 Billion Belgian Franks' a Motor Yacht " With helicopter The Destiny Of 89 million Dollars, 108 ferraris & 2 Falcon 900's each worth 30 million Dollars, 99 Villa's & 7 Castels. later everything was sold to pay debts. Due to belief in the Moneytron system and also his sense of show and publicity he made large sums of money. He also traded duplicated stocks,
In 1991, he was sentenced to 5 years in jail for scams; according to him, 'A way to fuck the system'. In prison, he wrote a personal diary "Gevangenis Boek (Prison Book), which he later released. In 2013 After the Movie release of The Wolf Of Wallstreet, People started calling him The Belgian Wolf of Wallstreet comparing him with the character of Jordan Belfort.
He was the sponsor of a Formula One team in 1989, Moneytron Onyx, which placed 10th of the 21 teams. The biggest success he got with this was 3th Place at the Grand Prix of Portugal With his Driver "Stefan Johansson" in 1989.
In 1991, Van Rossem Founded his Own libertain protest Party ROSSEM. According to some left Wing critics, to gain political immunity, because of his problems with the Belgian Court. The Name Of the Party stood for ‘Radicale Omvormers en Sociale Strijders voor een Eerlijker Maatschappij’. (Radical Inverters and Social Warriors for a Fairer Society) Under The slogan ‘Geen gezwijn, stem libertijn’ (No nonsense, vote libertine), ROSSEM got 3,2% of the votes, or 3 chairs in the Belgian Federal Parliament at the Parlemential elections of van 24 November 1991. In 2014, he went back to the elections with his party ROSSEM but lost with only 0,3 percent of the votes for the Belgian Federal Parliament en 0,2 for the Flemish Parliament.
At the coronation ceremony of king Albert II of Belgium, he shouted 'Vive la république d'Europe, vive Lahaut', as a reference to Julien Lahaut who shouted 'Vive la république' in 1950 at the coronation of Baudouin of Belgium. Van Rossem was against the Belgian monarchy, and against Belgium as a state. Van Rossem claimed to have met Osama Bin Laden In 1988 in the "Baharain Middle East Bank" in Saudi Arabia
