Marc Faber On The Japanese Disaster, On A 20% Market Correction And On QE18

March 15, 2011
Marc Faber appeared earlier on CNBC in response to a plunging market, and gave his latest updated outlook on QE3… and 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 (not to mention 18). “We may drop 10 to 15 percent. Then QE 2 will come, (then) QE 4, QE 5, QE 6, QE 7—whatever you want. The money printer will continue to print, that I’m sure. Actually I made a mistake. I meant to say QE 18.” Faber was modestly constructive on the Japanese selloff, which at one point hit 18% down in overnight futures trading: “This huge selloff is an investment opportunity in Japanese equities, but if a meltdown occurs then all bets are off.” As usual, there is no love loss between Faber and the Chairsatan (recall that today’s Empire Manufacturing survey confirmed margins continue to be crushed due to surging input costs): “I think Mr. Bernanke doesn’t know much about the global economy but he probably watches the S&P every day.” And on Fed criticism: “”Until very recently the Feds have had very few critiques, very few people criticized the Fed’s policies under Mr. Greenspan and Mr. Bernanke. Over the last few months, a lot of critical comments have come up about the Fed and its money-printing habit. The S&P drops 20 percent (and) all the critics will be silent and they will all applaud new money-printing.” No fear of that here: Zero Hedge has been rather vocal in our opinion of the world’s most destructive central planning buro from day one. We will continue being so, regardless how low the S&P plummets… Perhaps even to its fair value south of 500.