Denver Gold Forum 2011

Dr. Marc Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He went to school in Geneva and Zurich and finished high school with the Matura. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a PhD in Economics magna cum laude.

Between 1970 and 1978, Dr. Faber worked for White Weld & Company Limited in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong.

Since 1973, he has lived in Hong Kong. From 1978 to February 1990, he was the Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK) Ltd. In June 1990, he set up his own business, MARC FABER LIMITED which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager.

Dr. Faber publishes a widely read monthly investment newsletter “The Gloom Boom & Doom Report” report, which highlights unusual investment opportunities, and he is the author of several books including “TOMORROW’S GOLD – Asia’s Age of Discovery“, which was first published in 2002 and highlights future investment opportunities around the world. “TOMORROW’S GOLD” was on Amazon’s best seller list for several weeks and is being translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai and German. Dr. Faber is also a regular contributor to several leading financial publications around the world.

A book on Dr. Faber, “RIDING THE MILLENNIAL STORM“, by Nury Vittachi, was published in 1998.

A regular speaker at various investment seminars, Dr. Faber is well known for his “contrarian” investment approach.

He is also associated with a variety of funds and is a member of the Board of Directors of numerous companies.

Stephen Moore is a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and has been the paper’s senior economics writer since 2005. He splits his time between Washington and New York, focusing on economic issues, including budget, tax and monetary policy.

Stephen is previously known as the founder and former president of the Club for Growth, which raises money for political candidates who favor free-market economic policies. He left that position in 2004 to found the Free Enterprise Fund.

Over the years, Stephen has served as a senior economist on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, as a budget expert for the Heritage Foundation and as a senior economics fellow at the Cato Institute, where he published dozens of studies on federal and state tax and budget policy. He was a consultant to the National Economic Commission in l987 and research director for President Reagan’s Commission on Privatization.

Stephen is the author of five books, most recently, “Bullish on Bush: How the Ownership Society Is Making America Richer.” He graduated from the University of Illinois and holds a masters degree in economics from George Mason University.