NEW YORK - February 27th, 2009 - Bloomberg’s Patrick Rial and Hideki Sagiike caught up with noted investment analyst Marc “Dr. Doom” Faber at an event in Tokyo hosted by CLSA Ltd. Financial.

Rial and Saiike reported today that Marc Faber said gold was currently expensive relative to other commodities, and the bearish sentiment that’s driven investors from equities to the precious metal is likely to reverse soon. He had recommended investors buy gold since the start of an eight-year rally that this month saw the metal top $1,000 per ounce as skittish investors sought safe-haven assets.

“I’m a little bit careful about the outlook for gold for the rest of the year,” he said. “A countertrend rally could occur soon where stocks would suddenly rise quite substantially.”

Faber today recommended investors short U.S. Treasuries, as a 27-year bull market likely ended in December, starting the beginning of a long bear market. Faber also recommends selling the Japanese yen, though the nation’s stocks may outperform global equities in the next one or two years because they have been depressed for so long.

The best bet for investors may be to buy a farm and escape from the cities, as a prolonged recession could lead to war, as the Great Depression did, said the Swiss national, who now lives in Thailand.

“Buy a farm and let your girlfriend work on the farm,” he said, to the applause of investors. “If the global economy doesn’t recover, usually people go to war.”