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The Unconventional Ideas Of Marc Faberby Nina XiangForbes Apr. 21, 2015 |
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 Just before the Songkran festival marking the Thai new year, I met 69-year-old Marc Faber in his museum-like home office in Chiang Mai, Thailand. After a brief greeting, as I was about to walk around inside the architectural masterpiece filled with Communism and Maoist artifacts, Faber asked me to take off my shoes. “We ARE in Thailand, after all,” he grinned. Having lived in the largest city in Northern Thailand for decades, Faber is very much a local. There was no air conditioning on this humid day. In a black tank top and barefeet, he converses in Thai with his staff. Three dogs sat quietly in the backyard. But from this unusual base, Faber is still able to observe market movements and world economic machinations with razor clarity. And his ideas are, as always, unconventional. Read More |
