Kurt Kasun

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• Getting the Most Bang for Your BRIC

  Published 27 July 2009 | viewed 3,043 times

  At the end of the trading week a Bloomberg article appeared titled "BRIC IPOs Show Region's 'Growing Power,' Biggs Says," where famed investor and former…

• Are Emerging Markets Leaving Us in the Dust?

  Published 21 July 2009 | viewed 3,519 times

  Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, co-authored an editorial which appeared in the July 14th edition of the Financial Times, titled "Time to tackle…

• From Bailouts to Boondoggles, Betting on a B-Wave' Rally

  Published 06 February 2009 | viewed 4,111 times

  Dueling Scenarios Revisited The following commentary is a follow-up to http://www.greenfaucet.com/energy/one-of-two-scenarios-is-developing/89995. First, again I would like to make clear that I do not consider myself…

• Not Your Grandfather's Depression

  Published 22 December 2008 | viewed 10,949 times

  It will be much worse, in many respects. The chart below, borrowed from Dr. Marc Faber's Market Commentary December 1, 2008, is devastating. The chart…

• Revenge of the Barbarous Relic

  Published 20 November 2008 | viewed 4,941 times

  Marc Faber's latest report written on November 1 was titled "Why Market Interventions by Governments worsen Economic and Financial Conditions!" I might have called it…

• Greenspan and the Gold Standard: Thinking Out Loud

  Published 07 November 2008 | viewed 3,728 times

  I wish some Congressman would have had the courage to ask Greenspan why he abandoned his principles he so eloquently (and correctly) wrote about in…

• Are You Really Prepared for Whats Coming?

  Published 30 September 2008 | viewed 6,841 times

  I only wish to make a couple of points in this short commentary. The debacle envisioned by Austrian economists is now becoming an undisputed reality.…

• What Next For the Real Economy?

  Published 22 September 2008 | viewed 4,881 times

  The Economist Magazine posed this question on the cover of this week's magazine with an illustration of the various pieces of Wall Street machinery being…

• Game Changer: Buy Gold Now!

  Published 17 September 2008 | viewed 4,440 times

  There could be heroes that emerge in the market tumult, but I urge you not to try to be one of them. Financial markets around…

• Surviving the Credit Chaos

  Published 16 September 2008 | viewed 5,040 times

  Last week when I wrote, "Extraordinary Measures Today, a Financial Funeral Tomorrow," I didn't literally think that the funeral would actually occur 'tomorrow'. Someone started…

• Extraordinary Measures Today, a Financial Funeral Tomorrow

  Published 10 September 2008 | viewed 7,268 times

  I wish I was referring to Fannie and Freddie in the title of this piece, but because those institutions are being resurrected, the funeral I…

• Kicking the Debt Habit Cold Turkey

  Published 03 September 2008 | viewed 5,306 times

  Things are about to get really bad. Rotating bubbles are now becoming rotating sector recessions as the positive feedback loops, created as money and credit…

• Commodities: Is the Decennial Pattern Still in Effect?

  Published 20 August 2008 | viewed 3,139 times

  In early April I wrote a commentary titled "Commodity Boom? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!" in which I hypothesized that commodities would maintain investment leadership…

• Global Goldilocks?

  Published 14 August 2008 | viewed 4,181 times

  The new narrative forming among the Goldilocks crowd is that US economic supremacy reigns once again, as manifest in a reawakened "King Dollar". The US…

• That's How a Hangover is Supposed to Feel

  Published 31 July 2008 | viewed 4,003 times

  The cover of this week's The Economist magazine reads "Unhappy America". To the authors' credit the article goes beyond the typical Bush-bashing and identifies several…

• It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn...of a Depression

  Published 25 July 2008 | viewed 8,359 times

  The chart below, provided to me by Barry Bannister, clearly illustrates the countdown to hyperinflation. Chart: Courtesy Barry Bannister The financial system will collapse before…

• Is the Party Over?

  Published 25 June 2008 | viewed 5,004 times

  For this week, access to much of Elliott Wave International's forecasts and chart work is free. Many traders and investors boldly proclaim that technical analysis,…

• CPR for the Dollar

  Published 10 June 2008 | viewed 4,351 times

  Perhaps we should institute DNR rather than CPR Two days ago Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke shocked the world by commenting on his concerns regarding the…

• Inflation Leaves Investors Little Choice

  Published 30 May 2008 | viewed 3,337 times

  The peaceful co-existence between commodity-related investments and most sectors which comprise the broader US Stock indices, is drawing to a close. As inflation tightens its…

• The Panda Vs. The Polar Bear

  Published 24 May 2008 | viewed 5,000 times

  Last week the Bush administration declared polar bears as threatened species, acknowledging that global warming jeopardizes the species' livelihood as a result of rapid Artic…