Friday, September 30, 2011

Marc Faber : we had a Credit driven Boom in China

Marc Faber :Well basically I look at China this way , between 2000 and 2007 the Chinese economy grew and credit expanded as about the same rate as the GDP , slightly higher but not excessively , but after the crisis of 2008 we had essentially a credit driven Boom in China , and whenever you have excessive credit growth and artificially low interest rates , because obviously inflation in China is much higher than what the government is publishing , you have symptoms of bubbles developing clearly in the real estate market there were some over investments and so forth , and therefor I think the slowdown in China is coming or possibly some sectors of the economy will crash , it dos not mean that China is unattractive from a long term perspective , in America from 1800 to 2000 we had 19 economic and financial crisis in the first hundred years in the 19th century we had a civil war we had world War One we had the great depression World War Two and so forth and so on but the country continued to grow , this can happen in China ......- in Reuters

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Dr Marc Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He went to school in Geneva and Zurich and finished high school with the Matura. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a PhD in Economics magna cum laude. Between 1970 and 1978, Dr Faber worked for White Weld & Company Limited in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong. Since 1973, he has lived in Hong Kong. From 1978 to February 1990, he was the Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK) Ltd. In June 1990, he set up his own business, which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager.