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Stansberry Investor Hour

Fiscal Dominance Is Threatening the U.S. Today

Stansberry Investor Hour

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Stansberry Investor Hour, Dan and Corey welcome Lyn Alden to the show. Lyn is an independent analyst, bestselling author, and founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy – an investment research service for both retail and institutional investors. She kicks the podcast off by describing how her background in engineering has influenced her macroeconomic investing style. She explains why she became so interested in macroeconomics in the first place and why 2017 was a turning point for the U.S. economy. Lyn also talks about fiscal dominance – or when fiscal deficits and federal debts are large enough that they start reducing a central bank's options. She puts this in the historical context of the 1970s and clarifies why inflation and interest rates are so complexly intertwined today. (4:39)

Next, Lyn shares her outlook for the U.S. economy, including higher-than-baseline inflation for the foreseeable future and the country being in a similar situation to emerging markets. She discusses areas of the market where fiscal dominance has been appearing over the past few years, how the 2010s taught investors the wrong lesson, why the U.S. may experience the same economic troubles that Japan is facing right now, and the divergence between sectors going through recessions versus those that benefit from deficits. (16:42)

Lastly, Lyn cautions listeners against using the traditional 60/40 portfolio in inflationary environments like today's and instead urges them to prioritize energy, precious metals, and hard assets. She also breaks down why she finds Latin America so attractive today (particularly Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico) and gives an in-depth explanation of how technology impacts money. (34:03)

Dan and Corey close things out by discussing the backlash to Argentine President Javier Milei's economic shake-up, including his devaluing the peso against the U.S. dollar and laying off thousands of government workers. Plus, they share their thoughts on the latest speculative meme craze – closed-end fund Destiny Tech100 (DXYZ) – and what it means for the broader market. (54:28)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Stansberry Investor Hour.

0:05.5

I'm Dan Ferris.

0:06.7

I'm the editor of Extreme Value and The Ferris Report, both published by Stansberry Research.

0:12.0

And I'm Corey McLaughlin, editor of the Stansberry Daily Digest.

0:15.6

Today we interview macroeconomic analyst Lynn Alden.

0:19.4

And today, Corey and I will talk about Argentina and a new fund called

0:23.8

the Destiny Tech 100. And remember if you want to ask us a question or tell us what's on your mind,

0:29.6

email us at Feedback at InvestorHour.com. That and more right now on the Stansberry Investor Hour.

0:40.3

All right, today's interview is with Lynn Alden.

0:44.7

And I did not know this, but Lynn is, aside from being a really good macro investor,

0:52.1

who is a great follow in Twitter, by the way. She has a degree in electrical

0:58.5

engineering, and she has a master's degree in engineering management. So she comes from this

1:04.8

engineering background, which I did not know until this interview, and I just find that utterly fascinating, which I imagine you do as well, Corey.

1:15.0

Yeah, it's fascinating to me, different people's backgrounds in finance.

1:22.6

You know, a lot of times it's a lot of people we talk to is it's, or I talk to it too, is like not traditional.

1:30.3

You know, not, you know, there's some traditional, you know, schooling knowledge there.

1:36.7

But a lot of people, you know, have different backgrounds as part of that too.

1:41.5

And hers, yeah, definitely qualifies engineering.

1:44.1

But it makes sense when you,

1:45.3

when you link it up with macro economics and all the different pieces and parts involved. It is pretty

1:54.1

complex. So it makes sense that you would look at it, that it would work. And it does work for her.

2:00.3

I've been following her for years and her work in her newsletter.

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