{"id":29758,"date":"2025-06-02T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29758"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:46:59","slug":"nothing-stops-this-train-us-fiscal-deficits-drive-bitcoins-case-as-a-hedge-says-lyn-alden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29758","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nothing Stops This Train&#8217;: US Fiscal Deficits Drive Bitcoin&#8217;s Case As A Hedge, Says Lyn Alden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Economist <strong>Lyn Alden<\/strong> warns that U.S. fiscal deficits are an unstoppable force, driving demand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/05\/45610847\/bitcoins-setup-exact-same-like-golds-explosion-during-1970s-says-analyst-but-critics-have-something-to-add\">for scarce assets<\/a> like <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Speaking at Bitcoin conference 2025 last week, Alden popularized the phrase \u201cnothing stops this train\u201d\u2014borrowed from the show Breaking Bad\u2014to describe a fiscal trajectory that, in her view, is now governed by both mathematical inevitability and political intransigence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in a system where the brakes are gone,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Giuzcd4oxIk\">said<\/a>. &#8220;Raising interest rates only accelerates the federal deficit faster than it slows private borrowing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Using historical data, Alden demonstrated how federal deficits used to rise during recessions and shrink during recoveries. <\/p>\n<p>That relationship broke down after 2017. Since then, unemployment has remained low while deficits have ballooned, reaching &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/06\/45718017\/nothing-stops-this-train-us-fiscal-deficits-drive-bitcoins-case-as-a-hedge-says-lyn-alden\" alt=\"'Nothing\" stops this train us fiscal deficits drive bitcoin case as a hedge says lyn alden>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Lyn Alden warns that U.S. fiscal deficits are an unstoppable force, driving demand for scarce assets like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and gold. What Happened: Speaking at Bitcoin conference 2025 last week, Alden popularized the phrase \u201cnothing stops this train\u201d\u2014borrowed from the show Breaking Bad\u2014to describe a fiscal trajectory that, in her view, is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}