Lyn Alden on Why the Dollar System No Longer Serves the US or the World
At the end of an 80-year global debt supercycle, who benefits from having the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency?
January 18, 2021
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This is an encore presentation of NLW’s first interview with macro analyst Lyn Alden, from May 2020. In it, they discuss:
- Why we’re at the end of a strong dollar cycle
- Why the Federal Reserve is terrified of the global dollar shortage
- The difference in creditor vs. debtor nations
- The concept of the Triffin dilemma
- Why Japan has been able to print money without seeing rampant inflation
- Why we have inflationary and deflationary forces competing to influence the U.S. economy
- Why debt is going to matter more than ever
- What Lyn Alden thinks alternatives to the USD system might look like
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