Marc Faber : “Well Done, Mr. Bernanke!”

In a little under four minutes, Marc Faber explains to Fox Business’ Dagen McDowell all that is wrong with the Central Planners ‘current plan.’ From a re-bubbled housing ‘recovery’ pricing real buyers out of the market (“homes do not offer a great opportunity today”) to forced-renters paying increasing amounts of their stagnant wages, and the small percentage of ordinary Americans who actually benefit from a rising stock market, reducing their disposable income to which Faber sarcastically rants “well done, Mr. Bernanke.” His advice, be diversified, don’t BTFATH in stocks, and physical gold is always a good insurance.

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George Soros: China Is The World's Biggest Story Right Now

There are some eerie resemblances with the financial conditions that prevailed in the US in the years preceding the crash of 2008. But there is a significant difference, too. In the US, financial markets tend to dominate politics; in China, the state owns the banks and the bulk of the economy, and the Communist Party controls the state-owned enterprises.

Aware of the dangers, the People’s Bank of China took steps starting in 2012 to curb the growth of debt; but when the slowdown started to cause real distress in the economy, the Party asserted its supremacy. In July 2013, the leadership ordered the steel industry to restart the furnaces and the PBOC to ease credit. The economy turned around on a dime. In November, the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee announced far-reaching reforms. These developments are largely responsible for the recent improvement in the global outlook.

So China could have a meltdown like the US in 2008 or it could drive the entire global economy to new heights.

The ultimate conclusion to China's tension — whether it can successfully rebalance its economy away from debt — will have "profound" consequences for the whole world he says.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-on-china-2014-1#ixzz2pKyTAtcO

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