Showing posts with label social unrest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social unrest. Show all posts

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Nigel Farage: There Are Going to Be Serious Banking Collapses

“Therefore, what is likely, is that at some point, the markets will just overwhelm and engulf the whole thing and short-term, that will lead to chaos. The whole central banking, International Monetary Fund banking system, I mean it just begins to look more and more like the biggest Ponzi scheme we’ve ever seen on earth.
There are going to be some serious banking collapses and the impact of that on some sovereign states, will be serious. I’m afraid we’ve gotten to a point where we really can’t stop this now. We’re beginning to reach a stage where however much false money you create, the problem becomes bigger than the people trying to solve it. We are very close to that point.
When I talk about the threats and the risk that this thing could wind up in some kind of rebellion, some sort of awful social cataclysm, they (other European politicians) are now very worried indeed. They will talk to you in private, but in public, nobody dares utter a word.
I think the deterioration, in the last two or three weeks, in the eurozone is very serious indeed. It’s the bond spreads in Italy and Spain. It’s the fact that youth unemployment is now over 50% in some of these Mediterranean countries. 
It’s riot and disorder on the streets. And yet a month ago I was here and there was Herman Van Rumpuy telling us, ‘We’ve turned the corner. Everything is solved. There are no more problems with the eurozone.’ What a pack of jokers they look like.”
Farage also had this to say about the Italian movement of gold: “It was interesting to see massive bullion movements last month, out of Italian banks and into Swiss banks. So, people who have purchased gold for protection and have kept the gold in Italian bank vaults, now their trust in Italian banks is so bad they have physically moved the bullion to Switzerland. I’m still a believer, buy gold on dips.”

Monday, April 2, 2012

Marc Faber Predicts 'Massive Wealth Destruction' Through Hyperinflation, Social Unrest, Credit Collapse Or War

"Marc Faber was on CNBC this morning, peddling his standard doom
He had two good lines:
The first was that the #1 question investors should ask themselves is not 'where can I make the most money' but rather 'where can I avoid losing the most money'?
He then predicted that the endgame of all this easing will be "massive wealth destruction" through some combination of hyperinflation, credit collapse, social unrest, and WAR!
Doom, boom, and gloom indeed.
For what it's worth, he didn't predict, exactly, when this is coming.
As for what investments he does like....
From CNBC:
"In Georgia, in Arizona, in Florida their property values will not collapse much more and will stabilize, so I think to own some land and some property, not necessarily in the financial centers but in the secondary cities, these are desirable investments relatively speaking."

at http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-faber-predicts-massive-wealth-destruction-2012-4#ixzz1qtNCp1UP

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