Marc Faber : The Middle East to Blow up in Flames

Marc Faber : The Middle East to Blow up in Flames

Marc Faber : "let's put it this way , equities have more or less doubled in price from the lows of March 2009 , we are in 2012 so we are 3 years into bull market I do not think that equities are a great bargain I think that the money printing has also flowed into corporate profits , so we have a corporate profit inflation we have a record corporate profit in the US but I don't expect it to go on for ever so I am very cautious about equities right now , in fact I think that we may have seen not just a temporary high a few weeks ago when the S&P went to 1422 , I think this could be the longer term high in other words , we don't exceed this April high this year , but equally I think it is a risk not to own any equities at all for the following reason , I think it is increasingly obvious that the central banks of this world will keep on printing money and that as a result of this money printing the purchasing power of paper money will diminish over time irregularly but it will diminish and so you have to own some assets , I happen to think that home prices in southern US are now relatively low , relatively attractive and I would probably if I were a US citizen and live in the US buy some homes remodel them and sell them out you will get a high return compared to say zero interest rate on deposits .....

Marc Faber : I have to give Credit to Mr. Bernanke

Marc Faber : I find it quite funny this talk about an exit strategy or an exit point because that they don’t have. And I think there will be no exit, but continuation of money printing. But I have to give credit to Mr. Bernanke. If I were in his shoes in the current situation, with the S&P having risen to 1422 the other day, I wouldn’t have embarked on QE3. I would rather wait and announce there won’t be any QE3 for the time being or depending on market conditions or on economic conditions and wait what happens, and if the market sells off 100 points on the S&P or 200 points, say it dips down to 1200 on the S&P, then come up again as the big savior of the whole financial system by implementing QE3 - in The Financial Sense NewsHour - 06 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber : We Have Negative Real Interest Rates

Marc Faber : Well, basically, it’s quite obvious that all central banks would like to reduce government debt as a percent of the economy by inflating. And over time you could do that. But obviously, it may not create a lot of prosperity, but rather problems down the line. And the question is not to what extent do you inflate because, say, in America, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will put, say, deflation at 2 to 3 percent per annum when, in fact, the cost of living increases for people is more like between 5 to 10 percent. So we have strongly negative real interest rates both on short term deposits and even on government bonds. So basically, there is a significant loss in the purchasing power of money. - in The Financial Sense NewsHour - 06 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber On why Gold did not perform well in Q1

Marc Faber : "Yes, that’s correct. But the returns have been very good since 1999 and year over year I think gold is still up 12%…I think that gold is in a correction period and we had an intermediate peak on September 6, 2011. And I always advise don’t put all your money into gold because it doesn’t have any cash flow. So you are really dependent on the price appreciation. That is different from owning, say, equities that have a dividend yield of 5%, which I can find in Asia." - in Bloomberg TV

Marc Faber on the Cycles of Gloom, Boom and Doom

Marc Faber MoneyandWealth Interview - Apr 21, 2012

Marc Faber : 'Over the last few months, the market has acted very badly. There are less new hires, the volume has dried out, insider sales have picked up, and this is the beginning of a downward trend. We may easily have a correction of 10-20% here. Most stocks are already down 10% from their highs. Markets have more than doubled from the lows in 2009. The global economy has actually deteriorated. 'It has optically improved because of huge government spending but in principle we are in a worse position today than we were in 2008 and 2009. There will be more money printing and if your are hyper bearish, maybe you are better off in equities than you are in government bonds and cash. I also advocate to own some gold'.

Marc Faber : not recommending to Buy more Gold

Marc Faber : "As you know, I have been very positive about gold and I still accumulate gold every month. But I think that we had an intermediate peak at $1921 on September 6 of last year. Then we dropped sharply to $1,522 an ounce on December 29, 2011. Since then we’ve had a feeble recovery. I think that the correction period is not yet over. I’m not selling my gold because I don’t trust governments and I don’t trust the Federal Reserve, nor would I trust the ECB or other money traders in the world. They are all going to print money. I still recommend to hold gold." - in Bloomberg TV

Marc Faber : QE3 going to be Enormous

Marc Faber : "It would have to be very significant to boost all asset prices including homes, stocks, bonds and commodities…Much larger [than QE1 and QE2]." - in Bloomberg TV

Marc Faber : Investors should have caution after April will come a Slowdown

Marc Faber : "Basically I think that earnings may begin to disappoint. That corporate profit margins could deteriorate. And I think we still have a lot of issues. Don’t forget we have QE1, QE2 and Operation Twist. I think in order to really hold asset prices across the board much more QE3 would have to be gigantic. I’m not ruling out that stocks can continue to go up but I doubt they will go up at the same rate as the first quarter. And if you look at the technical under underpinnings of the market, they have deteriorated. The list of new highs is deteriorating. The short positions are way down. And we have an overbought condition in the market if we measure the number of stocks above the 50-day and 200-day moving average. So, generally I would say maybe April is traditionally still a month of seasonable strength but somewhere in the next six months I think you can buy the whole market much cheaper." - in Bloomberg TV

Marc Faber : I advocate Investments that generate free cash flow

Marc Faber : Well, you see, I’m an advocate of investments that generate free cash flow. In other words, you invest in something and every year you get, after all expenditures, some money in the form of interest payments or in the form of dividends. And that allows you a lot of flexibility because if you have all your money in physical gold or in exploration companies the problem is you have no cash flow. So if let’s say your portfolio drops by 50 percent, you don’t have any money to add to your positions, whereas if you have cash flow, every year some money comes in and you have purchasing power to buy the assets that during that year fell the most or where you think some value is emerging. And I think it is very important to have always cash flow to invest in opportunities. And so I also advocate essentially a diversification. You know, a few weeks ago Mr. Buffett came out and said that gold is unattractive and so forth and several studies will show that stocks over the long run have performed better than gold. I fully agree with this study. It should be clear that the company that generates and pays out dividends over time will perform better than a dead asset like gold. However — and this is a big “However” — I once talked to Jeremy Siegel, he’s written many books about the performance of stocks, in 1800 and so forth. I [said], Jeremy, you start your book on the performance at 1800, are you actually aware that by 1841, the poor man’s recession, most of the canal companies and most of the banks were bankrupt. So if you invested your money in 1800, by 1841 most of it was gone. And this is the point, in equities you have to rebalance your portfolio and in gold you don’t have to do that. It’s a totally different type of asset. You can’t compare it. And the other day, you know, Kodak went bankrupt. I remember in ’72 and ’73 among the 10 most popular stocks among institutions you had Polaroid and Eastman Kodak and both went bust over time and they were disastrous investments. So it’s nice to say the market is going up in the long run by this and that, that I agree, but you have to rebalance the portfolio. And in gold you don’t have to do that. Gold is basically cash that doesn't pay any interest. - in The Financial Sense NewsHour - 06 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber : The Economy has Bottomed out but is far from Robust

Marc Faber : "First, I think there are some cost pressures creeping in terms of rising raw material costs, especially energy, and the problem with, say, a QE3 would be that you are doing it in an environment of very elevated oil prices. So, maybe the energy prices would go up more and squeeze the margins of some corporations. And certainly squeeze the consumer. And my sense is that the economy has bottomed out but is far from robust because the typical household is being squeezed by higher cost of living increases. There are various measurements. You can measure the CPI. It is rising by less than 3%. Everywhere I look I see households essentially paying between 5% to 10% more for goods and services than a year ago." - in Bloomberg TV interview 2 April 2012

Marc Faber MoneyandWealth Interview - Apr 21, 2012

Marc Faber MoneyandWealth Interview - Apr 21, 2012

Marc Faber : 'Over the last few months, the market has acted very badly. There are less new hires, the volume has dried out, insider sales have picked up, and this is the beginning of a downward trend. We may easily have a correction of 10-20% here. Most stocks are already down 10% from their highs. Markets have more than doubled from the lows in 2009. The global economy has actually deteriorated. 'It has optically improved because of huge government spending but in principle we are in a worse position today than we were in 2008 and 2009. There will be more money printing and if your are hyper bearish, maybe you are better off in equities than you are in government bonds and cash. I also advocate to own some gold'.

Marc Faber : Traveling has become very expensive

MARC FABER : Well, the first insight I can give you is that first-class tickets have essentially doubled in price over the last six, seven years, and that hotel prices have also gone up very substantially and that traveling has become very expensive. If you tell me, yeah, but there are lots of airlines where you can get cheap seats and so forth. Yes, if you have time, you can do that, but as a businessman, say, I have to be at a certain place, I can’t take the risk that I’m late. And so I have to travel essentially on a normal airline; that has become much more expensive. And the insight I have essentially from traveling around the world, the world is a huge place. And we just have to realize someone living in the south of the world, say, the South Pole, he sees the world from a different perspective than someone who lives on the North Pole. And so people who live in the Middle East have a different perspective on the world than an American; and Chinese have a different perspective than Americans and Europeans and so forth. And I think it’s very important for world peace for people to really understand that different people have different perspectives and different opinions. And I see it and I notice it, sadly, I don’t know whether it’s because of the social media or because of the internet, you have today far more polarized views than before. You have blogs, and blogs are for the gold stocks and all the gold bugs are together in these blogs. Then you have blogs for the super stock market bears and all the bears are there. Then you have newsletters that are oriented to mining stocks and all the mining stock owners are there. And there is actually very little cross-interaction in the sense that if I were convinced of my views that gold is a desirable investment, I would wish to hear the views of people who are anti-gold. In other words, you want to have interactions with people that have precisely a different opinion than you and not with people that have the same opinion as you have. This is very important. That is an insight I’ve kind of learned from traveling and seeing the world. You know, people in Brazil look at the world from a different perspective than an American. - in The Financial Sense NewsHour - 06 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber Interview with ABC Australia - April 9, 2012

Marc Faber Interview with ABC Australia - April 9, 2012:

MARC FABER: Well I mean right now the US stock market is outperforming other markets. But I think that in the US the fiscal deficit is a huge problem to which there are hardly any solutions, for the simple reason that the Democrats want to spend and the Republicans also want to spend. And nobody really wants to increase taxation. And so the deficit will in my opinion continue to increase and will necessitate money printing, but it may not lift economic activity. The second source of uncertainty is really what will happen in China. They have different views. Most economists will say well we'll have a soft landing and so forth. But I've been working in the investment business for 40 years. All the time I've heard about soft landing and no recessions and no crashes and no panics and so forth and so on. So who knows, maybe the Chinese economy will de-accelerate more rapidly than is generally expected and possibly even crash, in which case it would have a huge impact on economic activity around the world.

A China slow-down will cause the Australian economy to suffer badly

MARC FABER : Correct. If there is a meaningful slow-down in China then obviously the Australian economy will suffer very badly. I happen to think that the Australian economy will suffer regardless because we have a very elevated property market that has become unaffordable for a large number of people and we have already some cracks in the property market. We have a very high household debt to GDP ratio. So I'm not optimistic about the Australian economy.- in abc.net.au

A major Sovereign Crisis unfolding

MARC FABER : We will have another phase of the crisis, the question is from what level of asset prices and obviously also when will it happen. And I think the next time we will have a major sovereign crisis. - in abc.net.au

Marc Faber : Wealth is doomed to be destroyed by war and inflation

Marc Faber : “People of privilege tend to prefer to risk their own destruction than surrender their advantages.”

The Fiscal Deficit in The US is a huge problem

MARC FABER: Well I mean right now the US stock market is outperforming other markets. But I think that in the US the fiscal deficit is a huge problem to which there are hardly any solutions, for the simple reason that the Democrats want to spend and the Republicans also want to spend. And nobody really wants to increase taxation. And so the deficit will in my opinion continue to increase and will necessitate money printing, but it may not lift economic activity. The second source of uncertainty is really what will happen in China. They have different views. Most economists will say well we'll have a soft landing and so forth. But I've been working in the investment business for 40 years. All the time I've heard about soft landing and no recessions and no crashes and no panics and so forth and so on. So who knows, maybe the Chinese economy will de-accelerate more rapidly than is generally expected and possibly even crash, in which case it would have a huge impact on economic activity around the world. - in abc.net.au

Marc Faber Not optimistic about the Australian economy

MARC FABER : Correct. If there is a meaningful slow-down in China then obviously the Australian economy will suffer very badly. I happen to think that the Australian economy will suffer regardless because we have a very elevated property market that has become unaffordable for a large number of people and we have already some cracks in the property market. We have a very high household debt to GDP ratio. So I'm not optimistic about the Australian economy.- in abc.net.au

The FED creates one distortion in the market to the next distortion to the next bubble

MARC FABER : If I increase the quantity of money there will be symptoms of inflation. The Central Bank does not know where these symptoms will occur so it creates one distortion in the market to the next distortion to the next bubble. And so you have booms and busts and much higher economic and financial volatility. - in abc.net.au

Marc Faber warns of 20 percent fall in Equities

Marc Faber : "The question is not whether this is a correction, the correction has got underway. We may easily have a correction of 10% to 20% here."

Marc Faber : There is no Deflation in the system today except in the housing market

Marc Faber : Well, I mean, you know, I’ve learned that what I know I obviously learned from someone. I didn’t invent it. So I worked at White Weld with Gary Schilling and he’s a friend of mine; I see him occasionally at the conferences and so forth. And I disagree with him about that we have deflation. He lives in New Jersey. I went to New York airport the other and day and then I drove to New York City and the Lincoln Tunnel fee has just increased from $8 to $14. Well, I’m sorry, that is a 50 percent increase. And so there is no deflation in the system today. But if you say there is deflation in the housing market, yeah, there has been deflation in the housing market and if you ask me will there be one day a deflationary collapse, yes, one day there will be a deflationary collapse, but you understand, as an investor it’s nice to say there will be a deflationary collapse, but it could happen from Dow Jones 100,000 or gold price 20,000 or from home prices that are much higher than today and from a dollar that has depreciated much more than is the case today. So the difficulty for the investor is actually to navigate between today and the time of collapse that I think is inevitable. But how do you protect your wealth in the meantime and in the time of collapse? Investors, and I think they have to begin to think about this already today and say, okay, what does it mean if there is a global kind of deflationary collapse. In a deflationary collapse, everything essentially goes down in value, but obviously, like in an inflationary boom, in an inflationary boom you have different assets that go up at different times with different intensity. So let’s say if you look at 2000 to today, you were better off in gold and commodities than in equities. Now, in a deflationary collapse, the key is to say, okay, I’m only going to lose 50 percent when everybody else will lose 90 percent. So relatively speaking, I will be much better off. And that is the strategy that investors should consider: How to position themselves to lose less in the deflationary collapse in the final crisis than the majority of people. Then relatively to other people, their position will improve.- 06 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber : Gold would not help you a lot in the case of civil unrest

Marc Faber : .... I’m not sure that gold would help you a lot in the case of civil unrest. But the point is this. If someone that you meet who is well-to-do and says gold doesn't pay any interest, tell him at the present time your deposits are not paying you any interest either. And in real terms, inflation adjusted, you are penalized. You are losing out by say 5 percent per annum because your cost of living increase are going up by say 5 percent and the interest is zero. So in this environment, you have actually an advantage to own a sound currency like gold vis-à-vis paper currencies where the quantity can be increased. And by the way, you ask your well-to-do people once, when did you travel overseas the last time? Haven’t you noticed how expensive Australia and Canada have become relative to the United States or Switzerland? And if they say, yes, Canada is now very expensive. And you say yes, that is a symptom of US monetary inflation that depresses the value of the purchasing power of the dollar.- in The Financial Sense NewsHour - 06 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber : Warren Buffett was right about Gold

Marc Faber : Well, you see, I’m an advocate of investments that generate free cash flow. In other words, you invest in something and every year you get, after all expenditures, some money in the form of interest payments or in the form of dividends. And that allows you a lot of flexibility because if you have all your money in physical gold or in exploration companies the problem is you have no cash flow. So if let’s say your portfolio drops by 50 percent, you don’t have any money to add to your positions, whereas if you have cash flow, every year some money comes in and you have purchasing power to buy the assets that during that year fell the most or where you think some value is emerging. And I think it is very important to have always cash flow to invest in opportunities. And so I also advocate essentially a diversification. You know, a few weeks ago Mr. Buffett came out and said that gold is unattractive and so forth and several studies will show that stocks over the long run have performed better than gold. I fully agree with this study. It should be clear that the company that generates and pays out dividends over time will perform better than a dead asset like gold. However — and this is a big “However” — I once talked to Jeremy Siegel, he’s written many books about the performance of stocks, in 1800 and so forth. I [said], Jeremy, you start your book on the performance at 1800, are you actually aware that by 1841, the poor man’s recession, most of the canal companies and most of the banks were bankrupt. So if you invested your money in 1800, by 1841 most of it was gone. And this is the point, in equities you have to rebalance your portfolio and in gold you don’t have to do that. It’s a totally different type of asset. You can’t compare it. And the other day, you know, Kodak went bankrupt. I remember in ’72 and ’73 among the 10 most popular stocks among institutions you had Polaroid and Eastman Kodak and both went bust over time and they were disastrous investments. So it’s nice to say the market is going up in the long run by this and that, that I agree, but you have to rebalance the portfolio. And in gold you don’t have to do that. Gold is basically cash that doesn't pay any interest. - in The Financial Sense NewsHour - 06 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber interview - The Financial Survival Network - 13.Apr.2012

Marc Faber interview by The Financial Survival Network - 13.Apr.2012 , ".....the west is in decline says Dr. Mark Faber : not specifically the US but the entire western world is in relative decline compared to nations that have young populations growing populations and plenty of energy and drive , in the west we are an aging society that has become accustomed to wealth , we have grown in the last 30 years principally because of a rapid expansion of credit consumer debt mortgage debt and that has allowed people to live way beyond their expectations and beyond their means so there will be a payback time ..." says Marc Faber

Marc Faber FOX Business Network exclusive Interview - 13 Apr 2012

Marc Faber : We are in a Worse Position Than in 2008 and in 2009 : Investment analyst and entrepreneur Marc Faber spoke with FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Liz Claman about the health of the global economy saying 'over the last few months, the market has acted very badly', and predicted this is indicative of 'the beginning of a downward trend'. we can easily see a 10 to 15 percent correction in the markets says Dr Doom Marc Faber

On the health of the global economy
'Over the last few months, the market has acted very badly. There are less new hires, the volume has dried out, insider sales have picked up, and this is the beginning of a downward trend. We may easily have a correction of 10-20% here. Most stocks are already down 10% from their highs. Markets have more than doubled from the lows in 2009. The global economy has actually deteriorated. 'It has optically improved because of huge government spending but in principle we are in a worse position today than we were in 2008 and 2009. There will be more money printing and if your are hyper bearish, maybe you are better off in equities than you are in government bonds and cash. I also advocate to own some gold'. - Source: Fox Business Network

Marc Faber : If I were the Fed chairman I would resign

Marc Faber : Well, I mean I think personally that over the last twenty years the financial sector has not criticized the federal reserve sufficiently. They should have attacked the federal reserve for printing money left, right, and center. But, the financial service industry benefits from writing asset prices. So when you have a crisis whether it's the S&L crisis or the tequila crisis of ’94 or LPCM or the NASDAQ going down they cheered that the Fed continued to print money because it lifted asset prices. And, so their salaries went up and their performances went up and so forth and so on. So what I would do if I were the Fed chairman having been completely wrong about really everything, which is a truth series about the depression and the current conditions, for sure I would resign. But if I were, say, a pension fund I would tell the contributors and the recipients either you pay more or you receive less but we have to balance the books because the returns aren’t going to be the ones that we are used to between 1982 when the Dow Jones bottomed out below eight hundred and subsequently rose to over fourteen thousand. It's not going to happen again in real terms. Maybe if they print money but if they print money, as I said, the purchasing power of the, say, average American household would diminish because the cost of living will increase that much more. - in a recent interview with Chris Martenson

Marc Faber : Real Estate in America are the Best Investment asset right now

Marc Faber : "The Most Important Thing in Investments is to Hear What is Not Discussed!" is so striking. "I think investors should start to think what investments will go down the least when there is massive wealth destruction,"
"I happen to believe that home prices in the south of the U.S., in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and so fourth, are relatively inexpensive compared to other asset prices." - in Yahoo Finance
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Marc Faber : all Assets are mispriced in a zero rates environment

Marc Faber : "You have to ask yourself what asset prices will be relatively secure. I happen to think real estate, because of its wide ownership"
''everything is mispriced because when you have zero rates, you have complete mispricing of all assets." - in Yahoo Finance
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Marc Faber : Forget Treasuries, Housing Is the Place to Hide

Marc Faber: Forget Treasuries, Housing Is the Place to Hide

Marc Faber : “The Most Important Thing in Investments is to Hear What is Not Discussed!” is so striking.
“I think investors should start to think what investments will go down the least when there is massive wealth destruction,”
“I happen to believe that home prices in the south of the U.S., in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and so fourth, are relatively inexpensive compared to other asset prices.” Marc Faber told Yahoo Finance via skype from his office in Thailand.

Marc Faber : The U.S. Economy remains Anemic

Marc Faber : “The technical underpinnings of the market have been a disaster in the last couple of weeks,” “The number of new highs have declined, the volume has been poor, insider sales just hit a record.” ... “I still feel we are in a correction period and again like in equities, it’s a correction that is somewhat more serious." Dr. Marc Faber said on the sidelines of the Maybank Invest Asia conference. - in CNBC

Marc Faber : Well-to-do people may lose up to 50% of their total wealth

Marc Faber : well, I mean, I would say that well-to-do people may lose up to 50% of their total wealth, they'll still be well to do. instead of a billion, they'll have say 500 million. but I think there is a massive wealth destruction coming down the line. I'm not saying it's coming tomorrow but I think looking at the bailout and the money printing, they basically have postponed the problems and actually made them larger in the sense that the government debt has increased dramatically and somewhere a solution will have to be found for this government debt - in CNBC

Marc Faber : The money printing will not create long-lasting wealth

Marc Faber : well, basically I think that whole bailout and the money printing will not create long-lasting wealth, nor will it create healthy economic growth. and if i look at the world, then i see essentially well to do people that have done unbelievably well and i see the middle class and working class that hasn't done well. and i think somewhere down the line we will have a massive wealth destruction. that usually happens either through very high inflation or through social unrest or through war or credit market collapse. maybe all of it will happen but at different times - in CNBC

Marc Faber : The unfunded liabilities increase rates substantially

Marc Faber : Yeah, plus the pension fund industry. They have to have some returns. When interest rates are at zero on cash deposits and on, say, long-term government funds on the ten year notes, say, two percent of thirty years, three percent, they cannot meet the liabilities so the unfunded liabilities increase rates substantially. - in Chris Martenson Interview

Marc Faber : In a money-printing environment I am reluctant to short

Marc Faber : "In a money-printing environment I'm reluctant to short. But say whereas I recommended investors to increase their positions last October, November, December, now I think that if people are overweight in equities they should reduce positions somewhat…maybe cash. The U.S. dollar is desirable at the present time. And we have to say one thing. The market consists of thousands of stocks and the market consists of many different stock markets globally. The S&P has done exceptionally well relative to, say, emerging economy stock markets, most of which are still lower than they were in 2011. So, if you look at the advance-decline line of all the share markets in the world, then it is definitely being deteriorating. And I happen to believe that money printing will continue and I would probably buy financial shares and I believe that the Japanese market may outperform all the other markets against all expectations in 2012." - in BloombergTV

Marc Faber On bad returns for Gold in Q1

Marc Faber : "Yes, that's correct. But the returns have been very good since 1999 and year over year I think gold is still up 12%…I think that gold is in a correction period and we had an intermediate peak on September 6, 2011. And I always advise don't put all your money into gold because it doesn't have any cash flow. So you are really dependent on the price appreciation. That is different from owning, say, equities that have a dividend yield of 5%, which I can find in Asia." - in BloombergTV

Marc Faber : More QE to come - The Financial Sense NewsHour - 05 Apr 2012

Marc Faber interviewed by Jim Puplava of The Financial Sense NewsHour - 05 Apr 2012 : More QE to come , we will likely see inflation before having deflation , shorting the markets might be risky , the central banks worldwide will keep on printing money , smart investors should stay diversified in this kind of environement , Marc Faber recommends dividend-paying stocks, gold, emerging market stocks and real estate.

Marc Faber not recommending to Buy more Gold at this point

Marc Faber : "As you know, I have been very positive about gold and I still accumulate gold every month. But I think that we had an intermediate peak at $1921 on September 6 of last year. Then we dropped sharply to $1,522 an ounce on December 29, 2011. Since then we've had a feeble recovery. I think that the correction period is not yet over. I'm not selling my gold because I don't trust governments and I don't trust the Federal Reserve, nor would I trust the ECB or other money traders in the world. They are all going to print money. I still recommend to hold gold." - in CNBC 02 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber : QE3 has to be Enormous

Marc Faber : "It would have to be very significant to boost all asset prices including homes, stocks, bonds and commodities…Much larger [than QE1 and QE2]." - in CNBC 02 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber on Why Investors should have caution

Marc Faber : "Basically I think that earnings may begin to disappoint. That corporate profit margins could deteriorate. And I think we still have a lot of issues. Don't forget we have QE1, QE2 and Operation Twist. I think in order to really hold asset prices across the board much more QE3 would have to be gigantic. I'm not ruling out that stocks can continue to go up but I doubt they will go up at the same rate as the first quarter. And if you look at the technical under underpinnings of the market, they have deteriorated. The list of new highs is deteriorating. The short positions are way down. And we have an overbought condition in the market if we measure the number of stocks above the 50-day and 200-day moving average. So, generally I would say maybe April is traditionally still a month of seasonable strength but somewhere in the next six months I think you can buy the whole market much cheaper." - in CNBC 02 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber on The Alex Jones Show - 04 Apr 2012

Marc Faber on The Alex Jones Show - 04 Apr 2012 - Alex Jones talks with Swiss investor Marc Faber about the rapidly crumbling global economy. Faber writes the monthly investment newsletter The Gloom Boom & Doom Report and is the author of Tomorrow's Gold: Asia's Age of Discovery. He also writes for Forbes, Die Welt, the Wall Street Journal and other publications

Faber : The market is no longer oversold the way it was in December

Marc Faber : "I think that if you look back at a year ago we made a peak of 1370 on S&P on May 4 and then dropped sharply to 1074 on October 4. Then we recaptured the lows in November and December. Since then, the first quarter has been very powerful and has surprised investors because of its strong performance. And I think now the expectations are very high. The market is no longer oversold the way it was in December. And everybody thinks that the race is on, go along with equities, the hedge funds have positioned themselves on the long side and optimism is high. I would be very careful at this stage." - in CNBC 02 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber on the FOMC release & Ben Bernanke - 03 Apr 2012

Dr Marc Faber interviewed by Capitalaccount of Rt America - 03 April 2012 about the FOMC release and Ben Bernanke's zero interest rates policy which is forcing people to speculate " We have known now after the experiment with socialism and communism and the planned economy that the complete disaster government interventions into the market place have been but this is precisely what the federal reserve and the treasury are trying to do and for sure it will fail over time " Marc Faber said

Marc Faber interview - Bloomberg 02 Apr 2012

Marc Faber on Stocks, Gold, Fed Policy, Strategy . Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, talks about the outlook for stocks and investment strategy. Faber, speaking with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop," also discusses Federal Reserve policy and the gold market. (Source: Bloomberg) "In a money-printing environment I'm reluctant to short. But say whereas I recommended investors to increase their positions last October, November, December, now I think that if people are overweight in equities they should reduce positions somewhat...maybe cash. The U.S. dollar is desirable at the present time." Marc Faber told Bloomberg TV

Faber : Earnings will deteriorate and Profit margins will shrink

Marc Faber : "First, I think there are some cost pressures creeping in terms of rising raw material costs, especially energy, and the problem with, say, a QE3 would be that you are doing it in an environment of very elevated oil prices. So, maybe the energy prices would go up more and squeeze the margins of some corporations. And certainly squeeze the consumer. And my sense is that the economy has bottomed out but is far from robust because the typical household is being squeezed by higher cost of living increases. There are various measurements. You can measure the CPI. It is rising by less than 3%. Everywhere I look I see households essentially paying between 5% to 10% more for goods and services than a year ago." - in CNBC 02 Apr 2012
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Faber : The Japanese market may outperform all the other markets against all expectations in 2012

Marc Faber : "In a money-printing environment I'm reluctant to short. But say whereas I recommended investors to increase their positions last October, November, December, now I think that if people are overweight in equities they should reduce positions somewhat…maybe cash. The U.S. dollar is desirable at the present time. And we have to say one thing. The market consists of thousands of stocks and the market consists of many different stock markets globally. The S&P has done exceptionally well relative to, say, emerging economy stock markets, most of which are still lower than they were in 2011. So, if you look at the advance-decline line of all the share markets in the world, then it is definitely being deteriorating. And I happen to believe that money printing will continue and I would probably buy financial shares and I believe that the Japanese market may outperform all the other markets against all expectations in 2012." - in CNBC 02 Apr 2012
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Marc Faber predicts Massive Wealth Destruction to Hit Investors

Dr. Marc Faber , The author of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report warns that the world will face "massive wealth destruction" caused by either inflation or social unrest. "Well to-do people will lose up to 50% of their total wealth," he adds. Investors, particularly those in the "well-to-do" category, could lose about half their total wealth in the next few years as the consequences pile up from global government debt problems,

Marc Faber : America haven't got the Money to Finance a War

Marc Faber : "Say war breaks out in the Middle East or anywhere else, Bernanke will just print even more money -- they have no option...they haven't got the money to finance a war,"
"You have to be in precious metals and equities... most wars and most social unrest haven't destroyed corporations - they usually survive," Dr Marc Faber told Reuters on the sidelines of the Middle East Investment Conference 26 March 2012

Marc Faber @ CFA Institute Middle East Investment Conference 26 March 2012

Marc Faber, editor of “The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report,” kicked off the CFA Institute Middle East Investment Conference by quoting Ernest Hemingway who said, “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring permanent ruin.” On this downcast note, Faber attacked short-term Keynesian spending and reviewed the implications for investors of the accelerating shift of world economic and political power from the developed countries to the developing world. - source :  http://meic.cfainstitute.org/2012/03/26/marc-faber-continuing-financial-crisis-must-be-endured