Marc Faber: Look out! A 1987-style crash is coming

The S&P has rallied 19 percent in 2013, which is impressive by any measure. But the market did far better in 1987, when stocks added more than 30 percent from the beginning of the year to Aug. 8. The problem?

The market ended up tanking in the second half of that year—dropping 36 percent from the Aug. 25 peak to the October low, before closing out 1987 nearly exactly where it began.

And Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, predicts that the very same thing will happen in the back half of 2013.

"In 1987, we had a very powerful rally, but also earnings were no longer rising substantially, and the market became very overbought," Faber said on Thursday's "Futures Now." "The final rally into Aug. 25 occurred with a diminishing number of stocks hitting 52-week highs. In other words, the new-high list was contracting, and we have several breaks in different stocks."

Faber says that's exactly where we find ourselves this August.

"If you look at the last two days," Faber said, referring to Tuesday and Wednesday, "it's remarkable. We are close to the all-time high, at 1,709 on the S&P, and yet yesterday and the day before, there were 170 new 52-week lows. That's a very high figure." Read more >>

Marc Faber, aka Dr. Doom, says there’s nowhere to hide from Bubblegeddon, not even gold

The world is filling up with bubbles, and there’s nowhere to hide, not even in gold, said high-profile market bear Marc Faber, editor and publisher of The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, on Bloomberg “Surveillance” on Wednesday. The latest bubble is U.S. stocks, which have been testing record highs lately.

“I was relatively positive about U.S. stocks since March 2009,” Faber said. “I haven’t any short positions. I haven’t been shorting any stocks since 2009. But the U.S. marches up , consumer confidence marches down, and emerging markets are performing badly relative to the U.S. The dollar is strong indicating a tightening of international liquidity. And so I don’t think that the U.S. market will go up a lot from here I rather think that there’s now considerable downside risk.”

But what about gold? Why isn’t that holding up as a safe haven? Faber was asked.  He argued that the money central banks are printing  isn’t flowing evenly into the economies they are trying to help. Instead, it’s  just causing more bubbles like the tech bubble in 2000, housing prices up to 2007, commodities in 2008, and most recently select emerging market stocks indexes and the U.S. Read more >>