Marc Faber : In the Western world, the central banks and the academics hate gold
because they personally never owned it. Especially since 1999, despite
the recent setback, gold has significantly outperformed equities. The
central bankers and the academics at universities that are
neo-Keynesian, in other words, the idea of more and more government
intervention and more and more expansionary fiscal and monetary
measures, these people hate gold. If they have the opportunity to take
it away, especially if, as Eric Sprott maintains, that the gold is not
even there, they would have an incentive to buy the gold at the low
level, once they collect all the gold, reevaluate by ten times.
Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions of the stock market and futures markets around the world.