Marc Faber: Dependance On Government Largess

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Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth and the collapse of fiat currencies around the world. Buy physical silver and storable food.

World renown author and forecaster Marc Faber’s [Tomorrow's Gold: Asia's age of discovery, Riding the Millennial Storm: Marc Faber's Path to Profit in the Financial Markets,The Great Money Illusion; The Confusion Of The Confusions] latest take on the situation:

In order to exercise control over the population, governments throughout history have made people dependent on government largess.

A government can make an increasing number of people dependent on its generosity by providing more and more benefits to a larger and larger share of the population. Because of these “freebies,” people will go along with the government’s enlargement as a percent of the economy.

The masses believe in their free lunch and because the business elite knows it can profit from the growth in government. However, there comes a point at which the “nanny state” becomes unviable. Raising taxes to pay for the freebies become problematic. Fortunately for the governments, they have a Treasury and/or a central bank that can print money and monetize the government’s debts.  - in DR

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

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