TIP533: How the Fed went Broke w/ Lyn Alden

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Stig Brodersen

Business, Education, Investing

4.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Stig brings back one of our most popular and thoughtful guests, investment expert Lyn Alden. Together, they discuss how the Fed went broke and what the implication is for us as investors. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 01:28 - What is on the balance sheet of the FED. 07:32 - Why the Fed should be profitable. 11:36 - Should central bankers be elected? 21:09 - Why Lyn is bullish on India and Brazil. 36:39 - Whether the commercial bank system will allow a central bank digital currency. 41:20 - How to build a monetary system for Argentina. 49:12 - How to build a portfolio optimizing for both sleeping well at night and independence. 54:00 - How do we know that what we know about financial markets is true. 58:40 - Why you’re too concentrated if you’re super excited about your portfolio. 1:01:50 - How to spend money to optimize for happiness. Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Listen to our interview with Lyn Alden about Macro and the energy market or watch the video. Listen to our interview with Lyn Alden about Money or watch the video. Listen to our interview with Lyn Alden about Gold and Commodities or watch the video. Lyn Alden's free website. Lyn Alden's premium newsletter. Lyn Alden’s blog post, Energy: Area Under the Curve. Lyn Alden’s blog post, How the Fed went broke. NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: River Toyota Sun Life The Bitcoin Way Range Rover Sound Advisory BAM Capital Fidelity SimpleMining Briggs & Riley Public Shopify HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it! Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm

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0:00.0	You're listening to TI-P.
0:03.0	In this episode, I invited back investment expert, Lin Alden.
0:07.0	Today, we discuss how the Fed went broke and analyzed the Fed's balance sheet
0:11.0	with an intercession into discussion of how to build a portfolio in a challenging macro environment.
0:15.0	And whether we should optimize for happiness in the process.
0:19.0	Lin Alden is always a wealth of knowledge and I hope you'll enjoy the conversation as much as we did.
0:25.0	You're listening to the Investors Podcast.
0:30.0	Where we study the financial markets and read the books that influence self-made billionaires the most.
0:36.0	We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected.
0:48.0	Welcome to the Investors Podcast.
0:50.0	I'm your host, Dick Broderson and I'm here with Lin Alden.
0:53.0	You just know you're going to be in good company whenever Lin is here.
0:56.0	Lin, how are you doing today?
0:58.0	I appreciate that. I'm doing good. Happy to be here.
1:01.0	Fantastic. You're always welcome.
1:02.0	As we chat about just before we started the show, this is the 11th time that you're on our show.
1:07.0	And this is episode 533.
1:09.0	I mean, can you believe it?
1:11.0	So I don't want to do the numbers, but I don't know.
1:13.0	2% ish sounds about right?
1:15.0	This is you on the show.
1:17.0	So I hope we can increase that percentage as we go along.
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