Shocker! These bailouts won't work either

The new bank bailouts are not likely to work because they are run by the same people who prolonged the economic agony by throwing money at weak companies rather than allowing them to fail and encouraging the strong ones, Marc Faber, the publisher of the Gloom, Doom and Boom Report, told CNBC Monday.

Britain threw its troubled banks another multi-billion pound lifeline Monday by allowing them to insure against steep losses and guaranteeing their debt, while an adviser for U.S. President Elect Barack Obama said the rest of the TART money will be used to clean out bad assets from the financial system.

"The financial crisis has occurred because of government interventions," Faber told "Squawk Box Europe."

"Specifically central banks, or specifically the US Fed, by keeping interest rates artificially low for too long, they created a huge leverage in the system. So the people who created the problem now are in charge to bail out the system and that's why I am very skeptical that it would work," he added.

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