Fed Policies are responsible for Spiking Energy Prices
Faber on the Fed and how far the ‘rubber band can be stretched’:
“We have to distinguish between the financial economy, the financial
sector, and the economy of the well-to-do people that benefit from
rising asset prices, from rising prices of wines, and paintings and art,
and bonds, and equities, and high-end properties in the Hamptons and
West 15 here in New York and so forth — and the average person, the
typical household, the so-called ‘median household’, or the working
class people. And the Fed’s policies have actually led to a lot of
problems around the world in the sense that they’re not only
responsible, but partly responsible that energy prices are where they
are, they’re up from $10 or $12 in 1999 to now around $100 a barrel.
Food prices are up and a lot of other prices are up. So on your income,
energy prices have very little impact because you at Bloomberg – you,
young man – you make so much money. But for the poor people, it has an
impact. Some people in the lower income groups, they spend say 30% of
their income on energy, transportation, and so forth, electricity and
gasoline.”
Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions of the stock market and futures markets around the world.Dr. Doom also trades currencies and commodity futures like Gold and Oil.
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