Nothing Stops This Deficit Train with Lyn Alden

Interview recorded - 7th of July, 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I have the pleasure of welcoming back Lyn Alden. Lyn is one of the foremost macro strategists, Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy & author of the book “Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better”.During our conversation we spoke about Lyn's economic outlook, major drivers of increased deficits, tariffs, the big beautiful bill, running the economy hot, financial dominance and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:35 - Lyn economic outlook4:04 - Major driver of increased deficits7:37 - FED & Treasury to lose control of bond market?10:58 - Tariff impact13:55 - Tariffs inflationary?17:20 - Issues with austerity19:28 - Big Beautiful Bill21:47 - Financial dominance impact on markets23:48 - Running it hot26:20 - US the way of Japan?29:45 - Supplementary leverage ratio32:03 - Financial repression35:25 - Which countries more free?37:08 - Endgame39:04 - Yield curve control?42:33 - Microstrategy risk45:49 - One message to takeaway?Lyn runs an investment research service for both retail and institutional investors at LynAlden.com. Her focus is on fundamental investing with a global macro overlay, with an emphasis on equities, currencies, commodities, and digital assets. Lyn has also worked for over a decade in the aviation industry in a range of roles, starting as an electronics engineer and moving into project and facility management, and engineering finance. Eventually she became the head engineer and head of technical procurement for the facility, before retiring in my 30s. Lyn has a bachelor's in electronics engineering and a master's in engineering management, with a focus on engineering economics and financial modelling. Lyn Alden - Website - https://www.lynalden.com/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynalden/Twitter - https://twitter.com/lynaldencontact?lang=enWTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseasThumbnail picture from - https://xcoins.com/en/blog/rich-dad-poor-dad-author-predicts-us-dollar-crash-by-jan-2023/