Publisher Marc Faber discusses the fragile state of the US and global financial systems\u2026 how rising inflation will affect the average American\u2026 how soon the bubble will burst\u2026 and why gold and silver will triumph.<\/p>\n
Here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n
\"The US is a country that likes to create trouble, but they don\u2019t like to clean up things.\"<\/p>\n
\"We've now been five years into the bull market and the US economy bottomed out in June 2009. We already had a crack-up boom\u2014not in the economy of the typical household, but in the economy of the super-well-to-do people, whose asset prices rose dramatically and as a result created a huge wealth inequality.\"<\/p>\n
\"My view would be that we have already printed so much money, and to accelerate it will be bringing about numerous other problems, so my time frame is that the [bubble], maximum, will burst in three years' time.\"<\/p>\n
\"Once the collapse happens, the power of central banks will be curtailed greatly because people will realize who brought along first the Nasdaq bubble in 1999: The Federal Reserve. Who brought about the housing bubble between 2001 and 2007? The Federal Reserve. And who is bringing now along another great credit bubble and asset bubble? The Federal Reserve.\"<\/p>\n
\"I don\u2019t think that anything is very cheap, but if I have to compare different asset prices, say real estate, stocks, bonds, commodities, gold, art, and so forth\u2014and old cars\u2014then I think that gold and silver [are] relatively inexpensive because they have had big corrections already, and you should not forget that the global bond market now is over $100 trillion.\"<\/p>\n