Marc Faber : the US economy has contracted massively since the year 2000

Marc Faber :"...I think that commodities have not only been strong recently, they have been strong for a long time, specifically precious metals. If you look at the Dow Jones in gold terms it peaked out in 1999, and is not down 84% in gold terms. In other words you can’t measure any thing any more in dollars because the function of money is to be among others a store of value and also unit of account, but if you print and print and print, the function of store of value expires or is non existent, and the unit of account doesn’t work anymore. So we need to take a new unit of account which is gold or silver and in those terms, the US economy has contracted massively since the year 2000 and the dollar has been very weak as well as the bond market and eh stock market in gold terms...."

Contrarian Investor Dr.Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions of the stock market and futures markets around the world.