Navigating Inflation and Volatility in Stocks, Bitcoin, and Crypto: Insights from Lyn Alden

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  Energy and commodity shortages, increasing public debt, and higher interest rates may lead to inflationary forces and volatility in assets such as stocks, Bitcoin, and crypto, similar to the 1940s, with no clean solution to stop fiscal-driven inflation.
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  US oil production peaked in 1970 and a similar dynamic is happening now with limited new marginal supply and persistent inflation, leading to a prediction of a disinflationary recession in the next one to two years followed by a second round of inflation in 2024 or 2025.
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  Increasing productivity, reducing fiscal deficits, and ensuring cheap energy could help control inflation, but demographic and deficit-driven problems may be unfixable for the next decade.
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  Developing countries have built up foreign exchange reserves to prepare for economic crises, but high interest rates and central bank coordination may limit the US's ability to push economic problems onto weaker parts of the world.
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  The stock market experienced a lost decade due to a market rotation, but certain sectors may perform well in the next five years.
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  Higher interest rates may exacerbate public sector inflation and lead to a recession, while the potential of crypto lies in tokenizing assets and making them easily purchasable by anyone with a smartphone.
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  Precious metals, including gold and silver, have potential for a massive bull run in the future, but diversification is key.
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  Investors can benefit from the study's insights to navigate a challenging decade.