Marc Faber is a Swiss Stock Exchange expert, Fund Manager and book author. He is the Founder and CEO of Hong Kong investment company Marc Faber Ltd. Faber Is a pessimistic stock market guru, having correctly predicted the financial crash in Japan, the stock market crash of 1987, the Asia crisis and the bursting of the technology bubble in 2000. He is the editor of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report newsletter. In July 2007, he predicted economic difficulties in the United States for the 2nd half of 2007. Faber studied economics and holds a doctorate in Economic History.