Lyn Alden: The Collapse Is Here, Nothing Stops This Train
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April 25, 2026 · 1h 15m · Season 1 · Episode 35
About this episode
Lyn Alden discusses the broken monetary system and the implications of debt bubbles and currency debasement.
Help support the channel by checking out our amazing sponsors: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/proof and https://mangrove.ai⚡ CrowdHealth is a peer to peer healthcare platform that removes insurance middlemen and aligns incentives through community driven incentives. Listeners of Proof of Thought can try it for $99 per month for the first three months at joincrowdhealth.com/proof.⚡ Mangrove is a non custodial automated trading platform for digital assets. The platform allows you to easily build and deploy trading bots with built in guardrails and safety stops. Visit Mangrove.ai to access their developer tools or join the waitlist. Early adopters get 2 months free. ⭐️ Follow Lyn X: https://x.com/LynAldenContact Website: https://www.lynalden.com/ Today's conversation is with Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy and author of the bestselling book Broken Money. Lyn shares her framework for understanding why the current monetary system is broken, drawing on the historical parallels between the economic cycles of the 1920s-1940s and today. In this episode, she breaks down how debt bubbles form and collapse, why the transition from private to public sector debt is…
People in this episode
Host: Proof of Thought
Guest: Lyn Alden
Topics covered
- monetary system
- debt bubbles
- inflation
- currency debasement
- Bitcoin
- economic cycles
Keywords
- inflation targeting
- economic cycles
- debt
- currency debasement
- Bitcoin
- monetary policy
- savers
- scarce assets
Sponsors
CrowdHealth, Mangrove
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Lyn Alden Investment Strategy
Books & works: Broken Money
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