Gold can easily go down 20% - 30%

Marc Faber: Let me put it this way, of course it is a concern to me, if an asset class like gold and silver has been the best asset class over the last ten years, maybe copper was even better or a Warhol Painting and so forth. That concerns me. But I can turn around and say look, if I consider the price of gold, an average price in the mid 1980’s, say we take $400 or $450 or whatever it is, and we take the monetary base at that time, we take the international reserve. We take into consideration that China has not really in earnest begun to open up, and we happen to have the wealth expansion in emerging economies and so forth and so on. I can maintain, well actually the gold prices is not up, it is just a price of money or the value of money that has declined so much against the stable anchor. And so I do not think that we are in a bubble stage. But I mean I tell everyone, unless you buy gold it can easily go down 20% - 30%. This is not a prediction of mine, I am just telling people do not buy it on leverage, buy it as an insurance. If have health insurance, you also hope not to get sick, but just in case you get sick you have something. In the case of gold, as I said, my only concern with the gold insurance is the government will take it away. That is my only concern. I am not concerned about the price. - in FSN
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Real Estate in America is now a Good Investment

Marc Faber : my advice is to have say 25% in gold, 25% in cash and bonds, 25% in equity, and 25% in real estate. Now when I tell people in America that real estate is now relatively inexpensive, relatively compared to other asset classes, they look at me as if I am coming from the moon. But four years ago they were buying real estate like crazy and if you told them that real estate is in a bubble, they would not have believed it. I think now that time is coming to allocate some money to real estate and with the 25% cash you just wait until there is a great big break either in stock or in gold. And then you add to positions. - in FSN
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Zero Interest Rate forces Investors to Speculate

Marc Faber: Well basically we have unprecedented intervention in the free market. So fiscal measures, in other words, fiscal deficits and regulatory intervention, and we have unprecedented monetary intervention with artificial low interest rates that created an environment of negative real interest rates. Every citizen in the world has to realize that if he deposits money with the bank, after one year, the money has lost purchasing power; because the cost of living has increased, and the return on each deposit is basically 0% after paying the deposit fee to the bank and all the other fees, he has got a negative interest rate. And in this environment, you force people to speculate. And they speculate, they will go into one asset class for a while, and then into the next one and then most people will lose money by speculating. But it creates enormous volatility. And my advice is look, you and I, we do not know how the world will look in five years time if we are realistic. Okay we may get paid as financial commentator and so forth, but we do not know how the world will look like and we have to kind of invest in such a way that we do not lose everything. And so my advice is to have say 25% in gold, 25% in cash and bonds, 25% in equity, and 25% in real estate. Now when I tell people in America that real estate is now relatively inexpensive, relatively compared to other asset classes, they look at me as if I am coming from the moon. But four years ago they were buying real estate like crazy and if you told them that real estate is in a bubble, they would not have believed it. I think now that time is coming to allocate some money to real estate and with the 25% cash you just wait until there is a great big break either in stock or in gold. And then you add to positions. And I am also recommending to have allocations to income producing investments in the sense that if you have dividend paying stocks and in the U.S. stocks do not have a high yield, but say in Asia, I can still provide you a portfolio that have equities that will yield between 5% and 7%. But with that kind of a yield, you have a cash flow and you can reinvest your dividends. So in the long run you should be okay. But then again, not only about gold do I have a concern, I also have a concern, generally speaking, about our capitalistic system. For sure, people with assets, they will be taxed more heavily, that is for sure. - in FSN
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US government fiscal and monetary intervention benefited China and other emerging economies

Marc Faber : .... the problem with government intervention both fiscally and monetary, is that there are always unintended consequences. And all I am saying is basically, through the Fed’s intervention—monetary intervention—the U.S. has not progressed in 12 years. Now someone will tell you oh, we have Google and this and that. Yes correct, in that sense, some sectors of the economy have done well, but these sectors belong to say 3% or 1% of the population. If someone wins the lottery in ten years he can say, look I have a method how to win the lottery, once or even twice and so forth, but the majority eventually loses out. But the big winners of this monetary policy were essentially China and other emerging economies because the capital spending and the industrial production shifted to these countries and lifted commodity prices and so on balance, it actually damaged the U.S. and the entire Western World dramatically. - in the Financial sense Newshoure Interview
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We are going to see a Slowdown in India

Marc Faber : All the emerging economies are slowing down, not only India; also the exports are being impaired. We are going to see a slowdown in India in terms of economic activity and this is natural that an economy has phases of rapid growth and then low growth and recession. The government should not intervene in the normal business cycle, but it has always intervened. However, it did not intervene when there was a boom in terms of accumulating savings. So, you have essential asymmetrical monetary policy. - in NDTV 14 Dec 2011

The FED & the ECB know only one thing : Print Money

Marc Faber : “What do these bureaucrats in Brussels do besides eating well and sleeping the whole day…and sharpening their pencils? They’re precisely the useless bureaucrats that have brought about the financial crisis worldwide.”
“Somewhere, somehow the central banks will agree to print money. It may not be called QE3. And in Europe it may not be the ECB that buys bonds, but they may do it through the IMF or some kind of other institution.” - in a recent interview with Fox Business News
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EU should Dissolve & PIIGS should Default

Marc Faber : “If I were Greece or Portugal or Spain, I would say ‘bye-bye.’ I exit the EU. And the debts in EU, that’s your problem.”
“The best would be to dissolve the EU…let the markets sort this out. Let the countries default,” he asserted. ”It’s going to be painful – very painful. But rather than to again intervene into something that is not going to work in the long run is the wrong medicine.”
“Sometimes it’s better to default and take the medicine then to pretend that there is no financial trouble.” - in a recent interview with Fox Business News
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Marc Faber outlook for the next 5 years

Marc Faber : I don’t know how the world will look in a five years’ time; we may have another recession or depression. We may have to deal with high inflation. The bond market and the equity market may break. We don’t know how the world will look like in the next five years because we are not dealing any longer with free markets but with markets that are distorted by continuous intervention by the government. So, making any prediction is very difficult. My advice would be to diversify 25 per cent of your assists in real estate, 25 per cent in equities and 25 per cent in cash and bonds and 25 per cent in precious metals. - in NDTV

Marc Faber : At times Equities are better than Commodities

“We cannot be too dogmatic,”
“I am also interested in commodities in the long run, but there will be times when equities are better than commodities and there will be times when you have to move back into commodities.” Marc Faber, editor and publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report” said in a keynote address at the IndexUniverse’s 4th Annual “Inside Commodities” conference held on Dec. 8 at the New York Stock Exchange. - in indexuniverse

Why Marc Faber is Bearish on China

Marc Faber : “The reason I’m not very keen on China at the present time [is because] we had a credit bubble, we still have artificially low interest rates and a huge fiscal deficit in orders words artificial stimulus. That’s coming to an end. Yes, the government can further stimulate and slash interest-rates again and reduce reserve requirements, but it will just postpone the problem and aggravate the problem in my opinion.”
“When you have an economy like China that becomes so big so quickly, you can have a more meaningful setback. If the U.S. economy grows at 3% or contracts that 3%, it has no impact on the price of copper to speak of….In the case of China, whether the economy grows at 10% or 5% as a huge impact on the demand for iron ore and copper and aluminum, steel and coal. The Chinese economy today has a much larger impact on the rest of the world than is generally perceived economically speaking.” - in wallstcheatsheet

U.S. Equities Not Terribly Expensive

Marc Faber on his latest report : “It’s actually quite gloomy but if you’re very gloomy what do you invest in: Treasuries, Italian bonds or commodities or equities? I happen to think U.S. equities are not terribly expensive, so relatively speaking to other assets, they may for a while actually do quite well.” - in wallstcheatsheet

Marc Faber : Global Collapse in Derivatives Market coming

Marc Faber : ..when you make a prediction never put a prediction time on it , i do not know when it (Global Collapse) will happen but I am convinced that one day the whole derivatives market will cease to exist will become zero , when it happens I do not know , you know you can postpone the problems with monetary measures for a long time but you can't solve them ...if there is a war in the world , you think that derivatives will be settled ?! of course not , Greece should have defaulted then it would have sent the message that not all the derivatives are equal because it depends on a counter party ...- in Reuters Interview
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Marc Faber on The Gold Standard

Marc Faber : well to some extent we are already in a world where Gold has an increasing role in the sense that its price has adjusted upward not as much as the quantity of money since the mid 1980s and not as much as the government debt in the mid 80s but it has adjusted on the upside so what we have is not necessarily a rise in the gold price but the falling value of paper money against the value of gold and I think increasingly people will move their cash into gold but you have to understand this is a very difficult process because a lot of people purchase new gold under the influence of the economic Sufism that is being broadcasted by central bankers and the Keynesian economists as a relic of past times and as a bubble , I was in Taiwan and in South Korea last week and I have huge audiences at conferences and nobody owns any gold nobody , if I had been to these conferences in the year 2000 everybody would have been loaded with technology stocks media stocks telecommunication stocks , but the fact that nobody owns Gold shows me that it is not ye a bubble and I think that eventually more and more people will come to the view that Gold is not a commodity but is a substitute for US dollars Euros and other paper currencies which can be printed in unlimited quantity whereas Gold is limited by the annual supply ...- in Everything Financial Radio - December 04 2011
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Marc Faber - Everything Financial Radio - December 04 2011

Marc Faber - Everything Financial Radio - December 04 2011 , Dr Marc Faber explains that the west has a severe debt problem , and that the real house hold income will continue to decline , meanwhile we will continue to see an expansion in emerging economies , with a continuous shift in economic balance from the old world namely Europe and America to the new world namely Asia and that will cause economic and geopolitical tensions .....

Marc Faber : QE3 will come in one form or the other and in Europe also

Marc Faber video Interview Reuters - 09 December 2011 : there is no question that QE3 will come in one form or the other and in Europe also , they'll monetize ...they will make some kind of nice announcement to boost confidence and they will just postpone the real solutions to the problem they will address some of the symptoms says Dr Marc Faber publisher of the Gloom boom and doom Report

Marc Faber : Dissolve The EU !

Dr. Marc Faber the editor of The Gloom Boom & Doom Report on Fox Business News today 09 December 2011 is calling for the EU to dissolve : " I think actually personnaly the best would be to dissolve the EU ," he says " yes it's the best let the market sort this out and let the countries default and , it's going to be painful very painful but rather than to again intervene into something that is not going to work in the long run I think it's the wrong medicine " he explained

Marc Faber : gloomy Outlook for China

Marc Faber : "The reason I'm not very keen on China at the present time [is because] we had a credit bubble, we still have artificially low interest rates and a huge fiscal deficit in orders words artificial stimulus. That's coming to an end. Yes, the government can further stimulate and slash interest-rates again and reduce reserve requirements, but it will just postpone the problem and aggravate the problem in my opinion." "When you have an economy like China that becomes so big so quickly, you can have a more meaningful setback. If the U.S. economy grows at 3% or contracts that 3%, it has no impact on the price of copper to speak of....In the case of China, whether the economy grows at 10% or 5% as a huge impact on the demand for iron ore and copper and aluminum, steel and coal. The Chinese economy today has a much larger impact on the rest of the world than is generally perceived economically speaking." - in Bloomberg TV Interview
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Marc Faber outlook for Emerging Markets

Marc Faber : There is close correlation between all markets in the world. This year, the U.S. has grossly outperformed the emerging markets In Asia, we're down between 15% and 25% in markets. In Eastern Europe, even more. The U.S. this year is a wonderful market relative to the rest of the world. " "I think this out performance may go on for a while. Some emerging markets could rebound more strongly than the U.S. because they are more oversold. Like India, the currency is down 18% since July and the market is down 22%. Currency adjusted, the market has been extremely weak and is oversold. It could rebound somewhat here, but forget about new highs. It's not going to happen anytime soon. - in Bloomberg TV Interview
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Both the Euro and the Dollar are long-term undesirable currencies

Marc Faber : I have a very special stock tip for you. The symbol is g-o-l-d. That is what I prefer to hold. Both the Euro and the Dollar are long-term undesirable currencies, especially given zero interest rates in the U.S. Equities to some extent become like cash because they become a store of value compared to cash at a zero interest-rates. Paintings become a store of value, stamps become a store of value. - in Bloomberg TV Interview
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Marc Faber Outlook for The Market

Marc Faber : Right now, the market is in neutral territory. It was very oversold on October 4th when the S&P dropped to 1,074. Now around 1260, the upside in my opinion will be between 1,280 and 1,350 because there's a lot of supply around that area. But if there is some good news coming out of Europe, and good news would simply mean postponing the problems for another few years with some kind of money printing operation, either by that ECB or IMF or EFSF,  lift stock prices higher."

"(Postponing problems) is not good news, but it is better news than if the whole Eurozone falls apart. It gives some time to maybe find better solutions. I doubt they will be found, but with money printing you can hide a lot of things and you can postpone problems as we have seen in the U.S.
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The Euro will Survive

Marc Faber : I think the euro will survive, the question is in what form. It may survive without the weaker countries or it could survive theoretically just as a currency aside from local currencies. You would have in France and Italy and Spain and Greece, local currencies and...the dollar. So, I could travel anywhere in Europe and still pay in euros. - in Bloomberg TV Interview
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Marc Faber : What a Great Job The FED Chairman has done !!

Marc Faber : let me give some statistics , when Mister Bernanke became FED chairman , oil was at 58 dollars a barrel it is now over a hundred , the S&P was at 1264 it is now at about the same level , Gold was at 480 dollars it is now over 1700 , and the civilian employed who were in 2006 120 million are now 130 million , the unemployment rate was at 4 percent it is now 8.6 percent , the average duration of unemployment was at the time 16 weeks it is now 40 weeks , What a Great Job The FED Chairman has done !!!!!! - in The Financial Sense Newshour - 07 Dec 2011
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Marc Faber Bloomberg Interview 07 December 2011

Marc Faber : if you are very gloomy what you will invest in , treasuries Italian bonds or commodities or equities and I happened to think that US equities are not terribly expensive so relatively speaking to other assets they may for a while actually do quite well ,.

Marc Faber - Financial Sense Newshour - 07 Dec 2011

Dr Marc Faber being interviewed by Jim Puplava of the Financial Sense Newshour on 07 Dec 2011 about his outlook for the economy for 2012 , Inflation , Gold commodities , China slowdown , the lack of ethics and morals that we see more and more in the financial markets especially with the MF Global scandal , and much more ....

Marc Faber on MF Global & The War with China

Marc Faber : well what keeps me up at night are night clubs ! but besides from that ...I mean I am not worried about anything because i have a diversified portfolio and I am fully prepared to have less money over the next few years because I see a very clear trend that the electorate will eventually vote for higher taxes for the affluent class , so the affluent class will have to be pay either , or they have to pay more income taxes there is no question about this that this will be coming , and there will be eventually capital control and I think one way or the other you lose money either in stocks or in bonds or in currencies and in what not ...so I am not worried about all these things , but what worries me the most is that the geopolitical situation has deteriorated very badly , the middle east is going to go up in flames and an attack on Iran is becoming more and more likely at some point and the Chinese reaction and the Russian reaction to that is unknown for sure the tensions are also rising here in Asia because the Americans are pushing for more influence in Asia and that has to be perceived by China as an aggression , it would be the same if say China was in the Caribbean and had bases there and it has military bases in Canada and Mexico then that would be perceived by the US as an aggression , you just have to look at the world from their perspective it is a country with 1.3 billion people and they have to essentially assure that they will have sufficient supply of oil , so they look at the world from a different perspective than we in the western world may do , that's my principal worry that eventually we will have war and the other worry that I have are the morals because if you look at what happened in MF Global basically if you have money with a broker or a bank , the bank or the broker have the fiduciary duty in other words whether it is legal or not but it is not ethical to take clients money and to speculate for your own account and that is what happened in MF Global and that is what is happening globally with the banks taking clients money basically and leverage up their balance sheets and when something goes wrong they expect government to step in in and bail them out and that is not correct and I think this will one day blow up and then may be people that have deposits in the banks may lose money who knows ....- in Bloomberg

Investors should diversify

Marc Faber : I am worried about everything , and this is why I am advising clients and we talked earlier about Gold , I am not saying that someone should have one hundred percent of his money in Gold nor do i say that someone should have one hundred percent of his money in equities and think somebody would have to diversify some in real estate some in gold some in equities and some in cash but I am very concerned about the slowdown in China , yes ...- in Bloomberg

The Dollar to strengthen while the Euro to weaken

Marc Faber : yes we have a lot of problems in the US but near term we have less problems than the European Union , so in a way i think that for the time being the dollar will be perceived as a relatively good currency and in particular I think the dollar will appreciate against currencies of emerging economies- in Bloomberg

The Stocks have actually acted relatively well considering the problems

Marc Faber : In general I think the markets are oversold and as I said I think you better off by investing in equities than in government bonds and in cash for the next ten years , now you have to live with volatility but I think that stocks have actually acted relatively well considering the problems we have and so I am not all that bearish about stocks , even in Europe because I happen to think that the Euro will weaken and once the Euro weakens stocks will find a low....but I am not interested in investing in Europe in general I prefer Asia , where in Asia we have another set of problems which is the slowdown of the Chinese economy ....- in Bloomberg

The politicians do not have the interests of the man in the street in their mind

Marc Faber : ...in The world the politicians are a special group of people , they do not have the interests of the man in the street in their mind , it's all about how to protect the established order that they created in other words ,the politicians created the mess with government regulatory involvement and with fiscal and monetary policies and now they are expected to solve the problem , they are not going to solve the problem but they are going to postpone it but at the cost of the future - in Bloomberg Radio Interview

The market to remain highly volatile

Marc Faber : “The market is likely to remain highly volatile, and fail to make new highs,” - in Bloomberg

A China Economic Slowdown will Cause a Commodities Slowdown

Marc Faber : I think a lot of people will care if china grows only at 5% rather than 10% or 0% in a hard landing case because China is the largest buyer of commodities in the world, and if the chinese economy slows down the demand for commodities slows down. then the economies of Brazil, Argentina,Australia everybody is affected and then they can buy less from China and then you have a downward spiral. - in CNBC 03 Dec 2011
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Marc Faber : Easing Cannot Solve the Chinese Economic Problems

Marc Faber : but let me tell you something about easing. when Mr. Bernanke became fed chairman, the S&P was at 1264. that was on February 1st, 2006. we're now at 1244. so the market is lower than it was at that time. in the meantime, gold has gone to $1,746. the easing may not mean that the economy will do particularly well. the easing can shift money into some sectors of the economy. the stock market in china may rebound, but i don't think we'll see new highs, and i think the economy will weaken because we have a very capital goods oriented economy,Capital spending and capital spending is very volatile more than consumption - in CNBC 03 Dec 2011
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Marc Faber : Obvious slowdown in the Chinese Economy & Possible hard landing

Marc Faber - CNBC Interview - 03 Dec 2011 :"Well basically the data can be manipulated, but in general I would say there is an obvious slowdown in the Chinese economy and as I pointed out in my report, I think there is a chance for a hard landing. " Says Dr. Marc Faber

Marc Faber : in China the transparency is very low

Marc Faber : I am not buying Chinese stocks but i bought recently or increased recently some positions in Hong Kong shares , because I happen to prefer to play China through some high quality companies and in the case of China the transparency is very low the visibility of earnings is very low and some very smart people have been hurt and I suppose they made a detailed analysis of what they were investing in and yet they were wrong so how do I Marc Faber who knows nothing about the balance sheets all among these comity and companies , but anyways ...how do i know how to analyze precisely a Chinese company so I do not know soI , at the China play I own some Hong Kong Companies ....- in Bloomberg Radio

The collapse of the Chinese Economy will affect the world

Marc Faber : "In China, if the economy slows down meaningfully or if there is a crash, it will have a huge impact on the demand from China for raw materials, for commodities. It will impact Australia, Africa, the Middle-East and Latin America," - in News Max 

China Economy softer than official statistics would suggest

Marc Faber recently said that he believes that the Chinese government is lying about the real figures of the chinese economy "I’m sure the economy (of China) is softer than official statistics would suggest and probably the government will start to print money at some point. So maybe stocks will rebound here because of money printing, but again, it won’t help the economy.... Dr. Faber was reported as saying by the business insider website

Europe will Monetize like the US

Marc Faber : “The big picture endgame in Europe is that they will also monetize like in the US and that will postpone the problem, but it will not solve it.” -  in Fox Business News 29 Nov 2011

Americans are borrowing to shop

Marc Faber : “The American consumer went shopping but it’s not supported by income growth. If you look at the share of labor income or salary as a percent of GDP going down, what is happening is that people are again borrowing and diminishing their savings rate and I don’t think that is very sustainable.” - in Fox Business News

The problem of the West is too much Debt and too many unfunded liabilities

Marc Faber : “The optimism arises from some sort of a bailout and monetization. But if you look at the market, OK it’s up, but gold is also up and oil is up. Like in the US, we monetized time and again and it’s just postponing the problem. In the end, crisis will eventually happen. The problem of the Western world is that there is too much debt and too many unfunded liabilities.” - in Fox Business News interview 29 Nov 2001

The Market rallies because of seasonal strength & oversold conditions

Marc Faber : “The rally came from a very oversold level. We have a very strong support on the S&P between 1100-1150. And usually the December month is a strong month as well as January so we have seasonal strength and oversold conditions and we can rally, but I don’t think you should expect too much. I think we’ll get into overhead resistance when the S&P rallies another 5% or so between 1250-1300.” - in Fox Business News interview 29 Nov 2001

Marc Faber Fox Business News Interview - 28 Nov 2011

Dr. Marc Faber spoke to Fox Business News on the 28th November 2011 about the Current Market Rally : “I think The rally came from a very oversold level. We have a very strong support on the S&P between 1100-1150. And usually the December month is a strong month as well as January so we have seasonal strength and oversold conditions and we can rally, but I don’t think you should expect too much. I think we’ll get into overhead resistance when the S&P rallies another 5% or so between 1250-1300.”

Marc Faber worried about China

Marc Faber : Well I mean we have not seen ( a sharp slide in GDP figures in china ) as reported by the government but we have seen it in the stock market and a lot of Chinese stocks are down 70 percent not from the peak in 2007 but from the peak this year or last year so we had actually a big decline in the stock market and if I have to make let's say a bet 'who do i believe' the stock market or the government officials and i bet on the stock market - in Bloomberg Radio Interview 26 Nov 2011
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Marc Faber : The Euro to weaken & the Dollar to strengthen in the near term

Marc Faber : Yes we have a lot of problems in the US but near term we have less problems than in the European Union so in a way I think that for the time being the dollar will be perceived as a relatively good currency and in particular i think the dollar will appreciate against currencies of emerging economies - in Bloomberg Radio Interview 26 Nov 2011

Marc Faber - Bloomberg Radio Interview 26 nov 2011

Marc Faber : ...an increasing number of investors are becoming aware that actually government bonds are not as safe as they may have thought originally or previously and so they are moving probably money out of bonds and cash into equities

Marc Faber increases his investments in Hang Seng Bank

In a radio interview with Bloomberg Radio dated 26 November 2011 Dr.Marc Faber announced that he has increased his investments in Hang Seng Bank Ltd. and Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. “I happen to prefer to play China through some high- quality companies,” “They have reasonable dividend yields and they’re high-quality companies.” Dr. Faber told Bloomberg Radio

Marc Faber : I could smell Something is Wrong in China

Dr. Marc Faber delivered a shock- and-awe inducing performance during the The EPCA ( the European Petrochemical Association) 2011 Annual Meeting , castigating the economic and Financial policies of all major western governments, and “Keynesian” economists, and warning that he could “smell something is wrong in China”. He predicted another major economic and Financial meltdown between 2015 and 2020 - at the latest. - via EPCA

Wall Street investment companies have become public companies

The “too big to fail” view of private sector banks and other financial companies has encouraged reckless lending and investment policies among too many financial institutions. This safety net should be removed, Marc Faber argues. Back in the “old days”, Wall Street investment companies were partnerships that risked their own money. But now they have become public companies, which risk other people’s money, and leave governments - and taxpayers - to pick up the pieces when trouble strikes said Dr. Marc Faber during the EPCA annual meeting a couple of days ago

Buy gold and a farm in the country!

During the EPCA presentation when Dr Marc Faber was asked about the remedies he recommends in order to face the impact of another crisis he suggested to "Buy gold and a farm in the country!" - via EPCA

The struggle for energy between the US & China could result in the Middle East going up in flames

During The EPCA Annual Meeting speech Dr Marc Faber expressed concerns about competition for energy resources, with China being pitted against the West, represented primarily by the U.S. “Oil is a big priority for China. But the U.S. could seek to contain China by limiting its access to oil in the Middle East.” He suggested western intervention in Libya can only serve to set alarm bells ringing in China, and pointed to a struggle developing for an overland trade route to the region as China courts Pakistan while the U.S. strengthens ties with India. This is due to the threat the U.S. navy poses to China’s shipping lanes, Faber said. The struggle for energy could result in the Middle East “going up in flames”, he said.
- via EPCA

China is the elephant in the room

China is the elephant in the room, Marc Faber told the EPCA audience . Noting a global shift in the balance of global economic and military power from West to East, he also highlighted the massive increase in China’s share of global commodity consumption. He is skeptical about GDP growth figures for China, suggesting they may be closer to 5% per year than 10%. Faber suggests that recent downward slides in stock markets are more likely to be the result of concerns about China’s economic bubble bursting rather than European woes. “If China grows or contracts by 3%, that translates into a huge impact, particularly in demand for commodities.” Marc Faber says - via EPCA

Marc Faber keynote speaker at The EPCA Annual Meeting

Dr.Marc Faber, gave an evening address and predicted more financial gloom. at The EPCA ( the European Petrochemical Association) Annual Meeting . Marc Faber told the audience to expect another financial crash , 10 years of low-to-no growth , The Middle East in flames and the U.S. and China on a collision course over access to oil in the middle east and beyond ....Marc Faber described Greece as a lost cause and should be allowed to go bankrupt , that Europe is struggling to accommodate a range of very different economies and polities at different stages of development into a single currency .China is the elephant in the room said Marc Faber noting a global shift in the balance of global economic and military power from west to east ....- via EPCA

The universities in Europe are strongly biased towards the Austrian School of Economics

Dr Marc Faber visited recently the Faculty of Economics at the university of Zurich from where he graduated and he talked about his memories and how it was at this university that he got influenced by the Austrian School of Economics thinking : The professors we had were really world class ...I have learned how to write about something you do not know anything about , starting with a paper with no knowledge we have to go ans get knowledge to collect the information and then to write the paper , secondly I think I had some professor that influenced me in my thinking , because in America you have more the American school of economics whereas here in Europe particularly in Zurich we had strong biased towards the Austrian School of Economics that has influenced my thinking greatly ....Click Here to watch the full Interview >>>>

The end crisis will be postponed until the sovereigns go bankrupt

Marc Faber : "The end crisis will be postponed until the sovereigns go bankrupt,"

"They can postpone the end-game endlessly...say another five to 10 years. Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed." - in CNBC Interview

I rather own equities than government bonds for the next 10 years

Marc Faber : "When you print money everything goes up at different times, different asset classes,"

"I think that stocks may still continue to go up, and I would rather own equities than government bonds for the next 10 years." - in CNBC interview

Marc Faber : Zurich is the most beautiful and pleasant city in the world

Dr. Marc Faber back in Zurich Switzerland and in the university of Zurich where he studied economics he tells how he got influenced by the Austrian economics in the Zurich University : " well if I could go back in life I I will definitely study again economics , what I have noticed in life is if you are a lawyer or if you are a medical person you do not have the geographical freedom as I had in economics , I can practice economics anywhere in the world in Latin America in the middle East in Asia , and so forth , I could travel a lot , I have seen the entire world as a result of my knowledge in economics and so I would definitely again study economics "
"Zurich is the most beautiful and pleasant city in the world , if the weather is nice it's summer it's a lovely place it has an old city and it has a lake it has the proximity of mountains you can do sports it is relatively small so it is cozy , you can walk from A to B you do not need to take a subway so it is a perfect place so definitely I would come back here ..."

The Chinese bubble will burst eventually

Marc Faber : The Chinese bubble will burst eventually, in three months or in three years; when it happens, it will have devastating consequences for the global economy, - in www.taipeitimes.com

Marc Faber : All the West needs to do to contain China is seize control of oil supplies

Marc Faber : All the West needs to do to contain China is seize control of oil supplies, but China and the countries dependent on oil imports would not allow that for the sake of self-preservation, - in www.taipeitimes.com

Marc Faber recommends risk diversification

Marc Faber recommends risk diversification against the current backdrop, but took a dim view of government bond purchases as they would mean trust in the easy monetary policy. Rather, he suggests owning physical gold, equities and Asian real estate that will prove a better defense against inflation. - in www.taipeitimes.com

Greece is bankrupt whether Europe likes to admit it or not

Marc Faber : Greece is bankrupt whether Europe likes to admit it or not, and the European Central Bank will print money to postpone a systematic failure.

Marc Faber : Wall Street is a minority

Marc Faber : Wall Street is a minority, anyone else would have done the same, they use the system but they didn't create the system. The system was created by the lobbyists and by Washington. So they [the protesters] should actually go to Washington and also occupy the Federal Reserve on the way, - in CNBC