Marc Faber

Marc Faber is a Swiss-born investment adviser and contrarian commentator who has lived in Hong Kong and Thailand. He publishes the monthly "Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," which has attracted a global readership with its consistently bearish and often doom-laden analysis of global financial markets, central bank policies, and geopolitical risks. Faber was an early investor in Asian markets in the 1970s and 1980s, generating strong returns. He is known for warnings about market excesses that are often early but sometimes correct. His consistent skepticism of central bank interventions and fiat currencies has made him a popular figure in gold-bug and Austrian economics communities. His long career as a contrarian investor and commentator has produced a body of work examining how asset bubbles form and eventually deflate — with particular attention to the role of monetary expansion in inflating successive speculative episodes across global financial markets.