"The only thing that is as consistent as Marc Faber's message to get out of
government bonds ahead of a bout of global hyperinflation which will arrive once
the vicious cycle of printing to pay interest finally dawns (which in turn would
happen once central planners lose control of an artificially created situation,
which by definition, always eventually happens), is the passion with which he
repeats it over... and over... and over, like a man possessed, if ultimately
100% correct. In an interview with Bloomberg's Sara Eisen and Erik Schatzker
this morning, he does what he does best - cuts to the chase: "if you think it
through and you are as bearish as I am, and you think the whole financial
system will one day collapse, we don't know if in 3 years, or 5 years, or
10 years, but one day there will be a reset, and everything
will be essentially started anew, then you are better off in equities than in
government bonds, because a lot of government bonds will either default or they
will have to print so much money that the purchasing power of money will
depreciate very rapidly." When asked if he feels uncomfortable predicting a
calamity in bonds again, as he did back 2009, Faber is laconically empathic: "it
is true that last year the 30 year bond returned 30%, and i owe David Rosenberg
a bottle of whiskey" but analogizes: "from August 1999 to March 2000, the Nasdaq
doubled, but at no time in that timeframe was it a good buy. And after it people
lost a lot of money. We have now a symptom of monetary inflation and this is
record corporate profits, and the second symptoms is essentially a bubble in
high quality bonds: people seem so insecure and so much worried, they would
rather be in a US bond with no yield, than in bonds that may not repay me, or in
equities that may drop 30%. But it does not make them a good buy longer term."
Yep: only Faber can get away with calling the bond market the second coming of
the Nasdaq bubble and look cool doing it..."
at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mark-faber-resumes-bloodfeud-treasurys-still-sees-entire-financial-system-imploding
at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mark-faber-resumes-bloodfeud-treasurys-still-sees-entire-financial-system-imploding