Miles Franklin Media – YouTube, Released on 9/9/25

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief of Miles Franklin Media, speaks with Lyn Alden, Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy and General Partner at Ego Death Capital. Alden explains why America’s mounting deficits and fiscal dominance point to a default cycle that could result in a devastating U.S. currency devaluation and why in extreme scenarios, the dollar could lose up to 90% of its value.

00:00 Coming Up
00:56 Introduction: Central Banks’ Shift to Gold
06:31 The De-Dollarization Trend
10:35 U.S. Sovereign Debt & Fiscal Dominance
20:22 Impact of Tariffs & Onshoring
29:42 Federal Reserve’s Rate Cuts & Inflation
36:16 Future of the U.S. Dollar & Global Monetary System
43:55 The Future of Monetary Systems
45:00 Gold & Bitcoin as Reserve Assets
59:56 Potential Bitcoin Bubbles & Quantum Computing Threats
01:14:19 Comparing Bitcoin & Gold
01:22:56 Final Thoughts & Predictions

Lyn Alden is the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy. Lyn has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in engineering management, with a focus on engineering economics and financial modeling. She worked as an electrical engineer at an aviation facility, and over the course of a decade worked her way up from being an intern to being the lead engineer and running the day-to-day operations and finances of the facility, before retiring early at age 33 with financial independence. Since then, Lyn has been a full-time investor and independent analyst. Her latest book is Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better.

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