Lyn Alden: The Collapse Is Here, Nothing Stops This Train
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Today's conversation is with Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy and author of the bestselling book Broken Money — one of the most respected macro analysts covering Bitcoin, monetary history, and global financial systems.
Lyn shares her framework for understanding why the current monetary system is broken, drawing on the historical parallels between the economic cycles of the 1920s-1940s and what we are living through today — and what that means for the decade ahead. In this episode, she breaks down how debt bubbles form and collapse, why the transition from private to public sector debt is inherently inflationary, and why she believes continued currency debasement is now the most likely path forward for the United States and much of the developed world.
We also discuss why central banks have been quietly accumulating gold and reducing treasury holdings since 2009, what that signals about confidence in the dollar-based reserve system, and how a multipolar reserve asset world could reshape global finance.
Lyn explains why the Fed's inflation targeting actively works against everyday workers and savers, how scarce assets have historically been the only reliable shelter from debasement, and why Bitcoin represents something genuinely new — a monetary asset that combines the scarcity of gold with the settlement speed the modern financial system has always lacked.
Timestamps:
0:00 If the 2020s is like the 1940s, what can we expect in the 2030s?
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7:52 Are we heading towards continued debasement?
9:14 Why you should be concerned there's 325x more broad money per person
12:53 Price deflation is good; here's why
19:08 Current policy encourages consumption, how should we avoid this?
22:57 Central banks are controlling gold's price
28:04 U.S. asset freezes are killing treasuries
30:40 Why don't other countries just hold neutral assets to avoid freezes?
34:59 Will bitcoin become the world's reserve currency? How can it do so?
39:14 The current dollar systems is destined to fail
41:42 Have we irreversibly given up control of money to banks?
45:57 The modern system is designed for banks (like SVB) to fail
50:08 Why do countries with failing currencies not turn towards hard money?
51:50 How Lyn would fix the money if she was president
58:31 What Lyn would change about Broken Money
1:00:34 Was it coincidence that bitcoin appeared after the 2008 crisis?
1:03:24 Why bitcoin is the right solution to broken money
1:08:25 What does bitcoin need to accomplish to fix the money
1:11:02 What value does MSTR provide to bitcoin?
About Lyn:
Lyn Alden is the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy and the author of Broken Money, a comprehensive exploration of the past, present, and future of money through the lens of technology and monetary history. One of the most followed macro analysts in the Bitcoin space, Lyn is known for her ability to connect long cycle economic thinking with actionable investment frameworks, and for making complex monetary concepts accessible to a wide audience.
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