Markets are very volatile partly because interest rates are at zero percent...and in real terms, negative which essentially stimulates speculation. In addition, we have high frequency trading that lead to very wild swings in the markets. - in Bloomberg
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Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions of the stock market and futures markets around the world.