#402: The Fed Is Losing Money with Lyn Alden
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden to discuss the state of the Federal Reserve and inflation.
Follow Lyn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact
7:12 - The myth of inflation and unemployment
13:39 - The problem with CPI as a metric
21:59 - Does the US have the fiscal capability to handle Fed policy?
26:04 - Nations abandoning USD reserve
31:30 - Bitcoin not yet big enough to settle international trade
34:07 - Lyn's view on current bitcoin
38:03 - Fedi pools and other centralizing factors
41:06 - Emerging markets driving adoption
44:44 - Supply side issues
47:38 - Fed unprofitable
51:39 - Glimmers of hope
55:52 - Will energy policy change?
1:08:58 - War drums
1:13:30 - Highlighting the solutions through Bitcoin
1:15:41 - Fed blindspots
1:20:16 - Wrapping up, plugs
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| 0:00.0 | What's up for you. |
| 0:05.8 | It's your boy, Marty, here to introduce this rip of TFTC. |
| 0:09.2 | I sat back down with Lynn Alden. |
| 0:11.0 | It's always great catching up with Lynn. |
| 0:13.8 | Talked about a lot. |
| 0:15.2 | Fed policy, fiscal policy, energy, Bitcoin, lightning, Fediments, Noster. |
| 0:24.7 | Yeah. energy, Bitcoin, lightning, Fedemence, Noster. Trying to front run the war drums that are beginning to beat. |
| 0:27.6 | Get out in front of the people say, |
| 0:28.8 | hey, they're trying to distract you. |
| 0:30.4 | And hear the problems. |
| 0:32.6 | Great conversation. |
| 0:33.8 | As always, we have not posted the previous episode with Kelly Lannin yet that gets |
| 0:39.4 | posted tomorrow, tomorrow being the next day from the day I'm recording this ad read right now. |
| 0:48.4 | Not tomorrow, if you're not Saturday, if you're listening to this, when this episode drops |
| 0:53.4 | on Friday. |
| 0:54.7 | So I have no boost to grams. |
| 0:55.7 | As is the long-winded explanation of the time and the recording, |
| 0:59.1 | it's because I don't have any boostagrams to read. |
| 1:01.3 | But if you are listening via podcasting 2.0 enabled app and contributing in the |
| 1:07.0 | value-for-value model, thank you. |
| 1:08.5 | We appreciate it. |
| 1:09.5 | I think this is a very boostable episode. If you like him with Lynn's putting down, send us a boost. This group was brought to you by |
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