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Danny Knowles
The Debt Crisis Is Already Here | Lyn Alden
1 hour 25 minutes Posted Apr 1, 2026 at 6:56 pm.
Could This Be the Last Debt Cycle?
When Does the Long-Term Debt Cycle Matter?
The UK Guilt Crisis and Liz Truss
The Repo Crisis in 2019
Most Concerning Areas of the Market
Quantifying the Size of Private Credit
The Strait of Hormuz and Energy Crisis
Three Levers to Get Out of Debt
Inflation Without Productivity Growth
Worries About the Cost of AI
Demographics and Social Security
Protecting Yourself Through the Debt Cycle
Will the War in Iran Change the Money Printing?
Lynn Alden's Childhood and Homelessness
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“This is like DEFCON 5. This is a catastrophe.”

The debt crisis is already here. Governments are spending far beyond their means, inflation is quietly eating away at living standards, and the only real escape route is more debasement dressed up as growth. Add in an energy shock, AI driven job losses, and rising social unrest, and the question stops being whether the system is breaking. It becomes how long they can keep it going.

In this episode, I sit down with Lyn Alden to break down the real state of the global economy. We get into why sovereign debt crises are a slow moving process, why the US has already crossed into a new era of fiscal dominance, and why Lyn believes the Strait of Hormuz is the biggest macro risk in the world right now. We also discuss inflation, war, food and energy shortages, AI replacing white collar work, the path toward UBI, and whether this debt cycle could be the one that finally pushes the fiat system to its limit. Plus, Lyn shares the personal story behind her rise, from homelessness as a child to becoming one of the most respected macro thinkers in the world.

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