Marc Faber has warned that a new financial crisis is coming and will be
worse than the 2008 one and told Bloomberg TV that the “messiah” central
banks “helicopter money ” policies “will not end well.”
Marc Faber
Faber warns that ultimately “you cannot grow an economy by just
throwing money at people” and that “QE for the people” will be like “throwing
gasoline on a fire.”
Faber is entertaining, has a good chuckle at the central banks and IMF’s
monetary policies and laughs at the idiocy of the IMF’s recent
counterfactual statement when Lagarde said the world economy would be worse
off without negative interest rates:
… they will always say, if we hadn’t done this and hadn’t done that,
it would be much worse. They have no proof for this assertion. In my view, it
would have been better to let the crisis, already the first one in 2000, run its
course and prevent the colossal credit bubble that was built up that then led
to an even bigger crisis, and now they’re doing the same mistake.
According to Faber, credit as a percent of the global economy is up “very
strongly” since 2007.
“[M]ost of the credit is now for transfer payments, and that is very
negative for long term structural economic growth because it allows,
actually, the government to become bigger and bigger and to have more
regulations,” Faber said. “And I can tell you, I’m in the financial sector
and I talk to people in the financial sector. Half the time is nowadays
consumed with filling out forms by regulators.”
The financial crises in 2000 and 2008 would have been better if central
banks hadn’t intervened, Faber said. He warns against the upcoming
“helicopter money” policies:
“… the magicians at central banks, they always come out with a new
trick and these negative interest rates that we have today, this is for the
first time in recorded human history from the times of Babylon up to today
that we have negative interest rates, and it’s not going to end well. That, I
can tell you. But the sequence of how it will not end well, I’m not so sure.
But they still have a lot of ammunition. What they can do is helicopter
money. In other words, they can send you and Mr. Bloomberg and me and
everybody, say a check for $10,000, and that is like throwing gasoline into a
fire…. will it help the economy? That is the question. It won’t help in the
long run. You cannot grow an economy by just throwing money at people.”
“… the less policies, the better it would be. We all learned at school
that the free market and the capitalistic system is the best allocator of
resources, and now what we have is the worst allocation of resources because
it’s the government that tells you how these resources are allocated and they
continuously expand their interventions, and I can tell you, I started to
work in 1970. In the 70’s and early 1980’s, central banks actually never came
up in discussions. They have now become like the messiah, and everybody
watches what the central banks do and in the end, in my view, they will have,
from a long term perspective, no impact whatsoever. Now can they move markets
short term? Yes, but maybe not in the direction they want to.”
Faber recently told GoldCore in a webinar how he will “never sell his
gold”, he buys “more every month” and believes owning gold in vaults in Singapore “is safest.”
Faber’s interview with Bloomberg (recorded 18/03/16) can be
watched here
Faber’s interview with GoldCore and storing gold in Singapore can
be watched here
Gold Prices (LBMA)
18 April: USD 1,240.30, EUR 1,101.04 and GBP 874.96 per ounce
15 April: USD 1,229.75, EUR 1,092.16 and GBP 867.46 per ounce
14 April: USD 1,240.30, EUR 1,101.04 and GBP 874.96 per ounce
13 April: USD 1,245.75, EUR 1,100.37 and GBP 875.33 per ounce
12 April: USD 1,259.20, EUR 1,102.15 and GBP 880.18 per ounce
Silver Prices (LBMA)
18 April: USD 16.20, EUR 14.33 and GBP 11.41 per ounce
15 April: USD 16.17, EUR 14.33 and GBP 11.40 per ounce
14 April: USD 16.13, EUR 14.32 and GBP 11.39 per ounce
13 April: USD 15.98, EUR 14.14 and GBP 11.21 per ounce
12 April: USD 15.96, EUR 13.98 and GBP 11.15 per ounce
Gold News and Commentary
Gold Advances on Haven Demand as Oil, Shares Retreat After Doha
(Bloomberg)
Safe-haven bids buoy gold as oil slides on failure to freeze output (Reuters)
Asian shares drop, crude tumbles after Doha deal fails (Reuters)
Doha oil-freeze pact fails as Saudis insist that Iran participate
(Marketwatch)
Funds Are Betting the Gold Rally Isn’t Over Yet (Bloomberg)
Silver overtakes gold as best precious metal – Up 17% YTD (Mineweb via
Bloomberg)
Silver Hasn’t Flashed This “Buy” Signal in Almost a Decade (Casey Research)
“Monetary Bankruptcy, Groupthink & Hubris of Central Banks (Price of
Everything)
Wishes Aside, Gold Is Going To Fly (Zero Hedge)
Gold “Is Not Overpriced Enough” – Dizard (FT)
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