Tracking Dr. Marc Faber's Investment Strategy , Market analysis & Outlook and Media appearances
Monday, February 6, 2012
Marc Faber : in a bubble environment everybody wants to gamble
Marc Faber interview at the Stansberry Radio : “I’d rather lose 50% in gold than 100% in paper currencies” says Marc Faber : " ...in a democracy everybody has to blame himself to some extent for the bad conditions that exist in government in corporate governance and so forth and so on , and the same goes with the educational system , I mean people basically accepted that you pay more and more for education , the government will pay for it and so forth and in the end of the day it all goes into the administration and not into the teaching , and also we have a bubble environment essentially since the early 1990s , in a bubble environment everybody wants to essentially gamble and nobody wants to do a serious job , so what you are lacking is essentially skilled labor ,m people who can handle and look after a machine , today a machine is very sophisticated much more sophisticated than to deal with derivative products , so there is a lack of labor in that segment of the economy , highly specialized manufacturing and there is a surplus in people who went to colleges to just English or philosophy or geography or social sciences or whatever it is , that are in today's world not terribly useful ...."
Dr. Marc Faber Tomorrow's Gold
Dr. Marc Faber author of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report is a world class Investor, Doctor Faber 's typically controversial and contrarian views have earned him the label of Dr. Doom. Doctor Doom also trades currencies and commodity futures like Gold Natural Gas and Crude Oil.Even his harshest critics must admit that he's been unerringly correct in his market forecasts over the past three decades
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.