M.A. Nystrom

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• A Cautionary Housing Tale from Japan

  Published 08 September 2006 | viewed 8,905 times

  In the summer of 1990, with my freshly minted Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, I went off to Japan to make my fortune.…

• Commodities Review: Break or Bounce Time

  Published 29 August 2006 | viewed 4,970 times

  Close to two months have passed since my last commodities report on July 9th. At that time, gold staging a rebound after its precipitous decline…

• The Case For a Rising Dollar, Part III: Practice

  Published 14 July 2006 | viewed 5,423 times

  Read Part I here Read Part II here Based on Parts I, and II of this series, and my thoughts over the past few days…

• The Case For a Rising Dollar, Part II: Theory

  Published 13 July 2006 | viewed 4,633 times

  Read Part I here Synthetic Shorts, the Senior Currency and a System Saturated with Credit Yesterday, I gave a potential reason why the dollar might…

• Japan and the Case for a Rising Dollar, Part I

  Published 11 July 2006 | viewed 5,976 times

  Falling Markets Before I get onto the main topic, let's take a look at today's (July 10) market activity. Yesterday I suggested that commodity prices…

• The Eleventh Round: The Roots of Consumerism

  Published 14 March 2006 | viewed 6,169 times

  From the diverse discussion on last week's open thread, one consensus that emerged was the harmful effects of consumerism for the economy, the environment, and…

• That Old Malaise: Inflation, the Middle East, and High Crimes in the Whitehouse

  Published 26 January 2006 | viewed 8,598 times

  Now and Then The current stock market, measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, bears certain resemblances in form to the 1966 - 1981 market.…

• Is This Rally for Real? And Other Thoughts

  Published 10 January 2006 | viewed 7,383 times

  "The tape moves in mysterious ways, the multitude to deceive." - WD Gann 2006 - Year of the Bear As most of you are aware,…

• Don't Count Deflation Out Yet

  Published 31 December 2005 | viewed 7,617 times

  My recent article - 2006: To Bull or Not to Bull? generated a lot of interesting comments, both on the blog portion of my website,…

• 2006: To Bull or not to Bull?

  Published 23 December 2005 | viewed 7,375 times

  1. Happy Holidays First off, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and Joyful Holidays to all of you. I would like to say thank you to all…

• Liftoff, Soft Landing or Crash? Part II

  Published 20 December 2005 | viewed 5,997 times

  Click here for Part I With last week's Fed rate hike decision out of the way, I was expecting to see a little more clarity…

• Liftoff, Soft Landing or Crash?

  Published 13 December 2005 | viewed 6,539 times

  The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee will meet this Tuesday the 13th and release its decision on short term US interest rates at 2:15 pm…

• Gold, 1980

  Published 10 December 2005 | viewed 6,491 times

  Yesterday I posted a chart of COMEX October 1979 gold, showing the very nice run gold had back in '79. It went from just under…

• Gold, 1979

  Published 09 December 2005 | viewed 6,035 times

  The recent dramatic gains in gold have brought back memories of the late 70's and early 1980 for many. But some of these memories may…

• Top in Gold?

  Published 07 November 2005 | viewed 6,358 times

  I've been watching what appears to an extended topping process in the gold market for the past several weeks. An extended head and shoulders top…

• The Great Transition, Part III: Sign of a Pop - Housing is Everywhere

  Published 06 May 2005 | viewed 7,552 times

  Introduction Owning a home was once the foundation of the American Dream. Recently, it seems to have become a desperate national obsession, with prospective buyers…

• The Great Transition, Part II: Profiting from Trend Changes

  Published 25 April 2005 | viewed 6,045 times

  Introduction The thesis of this series, The Great Transition, is really quite simple: Things are not as they were before and we can never go…

• The Great Transition Part I: Giant Popping Sound

  Published 20 April 2005 | viewed 6,743 times

  Did you hear it last week? I mean the Giant Popping Sound of the largest financial mania in history as it continues to deflate, ripping…