Faber: 100% Sure US Will Have Zimbabwe-Style Hyperinflation
May 27, 2009
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Marc Faber and Jim Rogers are two fund managers I follow.
NOTE: This was my post a year before I became Top Fool via abitrePERFECT and Top in points via abitare. I follow Faber and Rogers, but I trust no one. That is why I survived the BRIC implosion. Rode the commodity bubble, avoided the commodity, real estate, finance and housing implosion etc....
Again, I listen to many, trust NONE. I steal good ideas where found.
The Business Insider has the Story:
Faber: 100% Sure US Will Have Zimbabwe-Style Hyperinflation
http://www.businessinsider.com/faber-100-sure-us-will-have-zimbabwe-style-hyperinflation-2009-5
More gloom from the always-cheerful Marc Faber.
Bloomberg: Prices may increase at rates “close to” Zimbabwe’s gains, Faber said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong. Zimbabwe’s inflation rate reached 231 million percent in July, the last annual rate published by the statistics office.
“I am 100 percent sure that the U.S. will go into hyperinflation,” Faber said. “The problem with government debt growing so much is that when the time will come and the Fed should increase interest rates, they will be very reluctant to do so and so inflation will start to accelerate.”
You can find the whole video interview here. Early on he's asked whether he ever talks to Nouriel Roubini, and what he makes of the other Dr. Doom's slightly more optimistic attitudes towards the economy. Faber says he reads Roubini but doesn't talk to him, before creepily adding with a huge grin that they go to different nightclubs.
Meanwhile, we'd like to thank a reader who sent us the following picture of himself holding $180,081,500,000,000 in Zimbabwe dollars. This could be you, folks!
Bloomberg has the complete interview 27 May 09.
http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/portfoliomatters.html
Here is an older interview:
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