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Message: The Daily Bell... Dubai

The Daily Bell... Dubai

posted on Dec 04, 2009 01:00AM

Dear Free-Market Thinker,

Dubai Debacle Offers Power Elite Window?

Friday, December 04, 2009

Uber bear investor and Gloom, Boom and Doom Report editor Marc Faber (pictured left) says Dubai World's debt problems are just the tip of the iceberg, and suggests investors will be better off not buying U.S. government bonds. "In the context of all the default that will happen in the world, it (Dubai) is not a big thing," Faber told Bloomberg. "But it's a reminder that governments can default." The 3.3 percent investors currently earn on U.S. bonds will likely be lost to dollar depreciation over time, Faber notes. Moreover, if deflation occurs, "much more money will be printed" and stimulus packages will cause government debt to rise. "Eventually, I suppose a lot of governments will be bust, including the U.S.," Faber

Dominant Social Theme: Don't look at the man behind the curtain.

Free-Market Analysis: We've been reporting on a potential commercial real-estate unwinding for some time now, but quite predictably, the Dubai mess is not being covered as part of that larger story. Or not until Marc Faber puts it in perspective for us. Dubai has been covered, predictably, as part of a "stupid-Arabs-get-what-is coming-to-them" story. And we covered it most recently as a story that revealed once again a power-elite Hegelian dialectic.

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