Quotes by Marc Faber

About Marc Faber:

Marc Faber is a Swiss investor based in Thailand. Faber is publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report newsletter and is the director of Marc Faber Ltd which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager. Faber also serves as director, advisor and shareholder of a number of investment funds that focus on emerging and frontier markets, including Leopard Capital’s Leopard Cambodia Fund and Asia Frontier Capital Ltd.'s AFC Asia Frontier Fund.
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The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

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The best way to deal with any economic problem is to let the market work it through.

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When it comes to money, the best investments were probably the ones I did not make.

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Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

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I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

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In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32...

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The problem with Mr. Obama is that you get more regulation and it's a disincentive for businessmen to hire people. You probably also get higher taxes, so in terms of the economy, he is very negative in my view.

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As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

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The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can't identify bubbles, but when each bubble bursts, they flood the system with liquidity that brings about unintended conseq...

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Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.

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In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their...

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If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don't believe that.

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I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant.

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Market forces will one day crush the Federal Reserve. One day, the market forces will reverse.

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I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

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I would rather buy Indian equities than the S&P 500.

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If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.

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I am surprised with the reelection of Mr. Obama. The S&P is only down, like, 30 points. I would have thought that the market on his reelection should be down at least 50%.

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I believe that the market is slowly waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is a clueless organization. They have no idea what they're doing. And so the confidence level of investors is diminishing, in my view.

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When it comes to charities, there's a lot of fraud.

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Author Bio

  • NameMarc Faber
  • DescriptionSwiss businessman
  • BornFebruary 28, 1946
  • CountrySwitzerland
  • ProfessionEconomist; Author