M.A. Nystrom

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• Financial Reform Bill Now in Conference - What we said was AUDIT THE FED!

  Published 15 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I talked to Ron Paul last weekend about the massive financial reform bill that is being finalized in Congress. The House and the Senate have…

• The Dollar Meltdown - Review

  Published 09 November 2009 | viewed 4,941 times

  I started collecting coins back in 1976, when I was just 8 years old. My interest was piqued when a kid brought an old Franklin…

• The Morality Hazard of the Fed

  Published 19 August 2009 | viewed 3,511 times

  Ron Paul's new book, End the Fed (out next month) illuminates the real reasons behind America's recent stunning economic collapse. The Federal Reserve would just…

• Flashback: Popular Culture and the Stock Market

  Published 27 March 2009 | viewed 3,698 times

  After recent events, it is harder than ever to take the "efficient market" hypothesis seriously, if you ever believed it at all. The serial inflation…

• Market Catastrophe and Apple Short Update

  Published 20 June 2008 | viewed 5,733 times

  It's been a while since I've done a market update, and today was a pretty big day, so let's get started: The Dow Tests 34…

• Second Great Depression in Detroit

  Published 03 June 2008 | viewed 31,052 times

  I've had a minor obsession with Detroit for the past year or so, ever since I learned that one could purchase a single family home…

• Bernanke's Character Test: Pre Fed Meeting Jitters, Indeflation, and a Prediction

  Published 30 April 2008 | viewed 3,061 times

  Tue, 04/29/2008 - 12:49 The Wall Street Journal - the mouthpiece of Business itself - had some stingingly harsh criticism of the Fed on its…

• Land of the Robots

  Published 28 April 2008 | viewed 3,298 times

  Imagine living amongst a race of immortal, super-human creatures with superior intellect, abilities, resources and power. Further, imagine that these alien creatures enjoy all the…

• Bulls vs. Bears: Week 13

  Published 24 March 2008 | viewed 3,810 times

  If you're reading this, you're probably like me in this respect: Watching the market try to make up its mind is fun, the same way…

• Book Review: The Complete TurtleTrader

  Published 21 March 2008 | viewed 3,435 times

  Buy and hold is dead! The extreme market volatility over the last decade should make this abundantly clear to even casual market watchers, but it…

• Welcome to the Future

  Published 18 March 2008 | viewed 5,212 times

  Last Friday we got a taste of what the future is likely to be like as we make our way further into the belly of…

• The Fed Invents a New Trick

  Published 11 March 2008 | viewed 5,816 times

  Prior Tuesday's monster 416-point Dow rally, the Global markets - not just the US - were panicked, possibly on the verge of a crash. US…

• Home, Home in the Range - Trading the Dow's Inevitable Breakout

  Published 06 March 2008 | viewed 4,821 times

  Lately I've been getting a lot of inquiries from friends, acquaintances and flat out strangers about how to make money trading. And it's no wonder.…

• The Secret World of Central Banks

  Published 07 August 2007 | viewed 5,996 times

  Today, all eyes were on the Federal Reserve: How it would respond to the recent turmoil in global financial markets? Would it lower rates, and…

• Global Liquidity Defined

  Published 03 August 2007 | viewed 4,631 times

  Editor's Note: The following is in answer to a reader's question "What do they mean when they talk about global liquidity drying up?" In remembrance…

• Money is Also Destroyed

  Published 20 July 2007 | viewed 4,680 times

  If money can be created from thin air, the opposite is also true: it can be destroyed as well. Usually it is the Federal Reserve…

• Boston's Crumbling Economy

  Published 18 July 2007 | viewed 6,012 times

  I live near Boston, and my bicycle is my primary means of transportation. For those of you not familiar with Boston, the city proper is…

• Bubble Morphology: Welcome to the 2007 Summer Rally

  Published 13 July 2007 | viewed 4,356 times

  Disclaimer: The following should be read for entertainment purposes only, and should not be construed as investment advice. Back in 2001, when I started the…

• Towards a New Gold Standard

  Published 27 June 2007 | viewed 3,458 times

  This article was originally published on the Daily Paul. Last week I wrote an article titled, "On Returning to the Gold Standard," which was primarily…

• On Returning to the Gold Standard

  Published 21 June 2007 | viewed 3,707 times

  This article originally appeared on DailyPaul.com. There were a couple of interesting pieces yesterday on TheStreet.com about the possibility of a return to the gold…