This page lists most of the articles ever written on LynAlden.com, organized into various topics.
Building Wealth:
This section has a variety of articles on personal finance and wealth creation:
- How to Build Serious Wealth- This Chart Shows What It Takes
- How to Improve Your Credit Score: The Ultimate Guide
- Medallion Signature Guarantees: What They Are and How to Get One
- How to Save Money: The 5 Most Impactful Tactics I’ve Found
- Financial Freedom: How to Never Worry About Money Again
- A Realistic Investment and Retirement Calculator
Investing Basics:
Everyone needs to start somewhere. These articles are a good starting point for learning the basics of investing.
- How to Invest Money Intelligently
- From Dollars to Millions: How to Invest in Stocks
- 3 Simple Hands-Off Diversified ETF Portfolios
- The Best Investing Books Everyone Should Read
- A Concise Guide to Asset Allocation
- Index Funds: Yes, There Are Some Downsides
- Discounted Cash Flow Analysis: A Comprehensive Overview
- Risk vs Volatility: How to Profit from the Difference
- An Overview of the Dividend Discount Model
- 6 Smart Investment Strategies for Superior Returns
- Thrift Savings Plan (TSP): Fund Overview
- Share Buybacks: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- A Guide to Bond Investing, and a Warning of a Bond Bubble
- The Best ETFs to Buy and Hold
- How Market Capitalization Works
Investment Strategy:
These articles discuss more niche or advanced topics in the world of investing:
- Covered Calls: How to Get a Ton of Investment Income
- Selling Put Options: How to Get Paid for Being Patient
- Equal Weighted Index Funds: Pros and Cons
- Should Investors Try to Beat the Market? (Do This Instead)
- How to Survive a Stock Market Crash or Bear Market
- P/E Ratio: Why Investors Need Better Valuation Methods
- Roth IRAs: How to Optimize Yours
- Interest Rate Effects on Equities: Growth vs Value
- Investing During Stagflation
Economic Research:
The articles in this category take a broad look at macroeconomic issues that could inform an investor for the purposes of general asset allocation or risk planning:
- 4 Bubbles Building in the US Economy
- A Guide to Interest Rates and the Yield Curve
- How to Prepare for a Recession
- Why Trade Deficits Matter
- How to Win a Currency War
- Historical Treasury Bond Risks
- The Global Dollar Short Squeeze
- Global Debt: An Overview of Where Debt Exists in the World
- Why the 2020s are Different than the Great Depression
- QE, MMT, and Inflation/Deflation
- “Fixing” the Debt Problem
- The Big Tax Shift
- A Century of Fiscal and Monetary Policy
- How Money Printing Works
- Presidential Elections vs the Economy
- The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
- Economic Japanification: Not What You Think
- The Case for a Longer-Term Oil and Gas Bull Market
- TIPS: An Imperfect Inflation Hedge
- Sovereign Default, the Debt Ceiling, and the $1 Trillion Coin
- Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality?
- The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
- The Importance of Price Signals
- Does the National Debt Matter?
- How Debt Jubilees Work
- The European Central Bank is Trapped: Here’s Why
- Energy: The Area Under the Curve
- Energy Problems: Yes, Still There
- The Hidden Costs of Reshoring
- Do High Interest Rates Fix High Inflation?
- How the Fed “Went Broke”
- Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominance
- Fractional Reserve Banking 101
Equity Research:
These articles generally provide a detailed timeless overview into a certain investment strategy (such as high-yield stocks, growth stocks, or value stocks) and then provide several current stock picks that I’m bullish on. Most of them are updated annually:
- The Shiller PE (CAPE) Ratio: Current Market Valuations
- Top Stocks to Buy and Hold for the Next Decade and Beyond
- 5 Rock-Solid Blue Chip Dividend Stocks
- 20+ Safe High Dividend Stocks
- 2 Growth Stocks I’m Buying
- 3 Value Stocks On Sale
- 3 Blue Chip Stocks I’m Buying
- The Small Cap Performance Myth, and 2 Good Small Caps
- The Guide to Closed-End Funds (and 5 Worth Buying)
- Contrarian Investing: Smart Moves for 2024
- International Investing: Where I’m Focusing for This Year
- Demystifying Emerging Markets: How to Invest Wisely Abroad
- Renewable Energy Investing: 4 Ways to Profit
- Most Investments Are Actually Bad. Here’s Why.
Precious Metals:
These articles focus on the topic gold, silver, and their mining stocks.
- The Ultimate Guide to Precious Metals Investing
- 4 Simple Reasons to Buy Gold
- 2 Gold Stocks I’m Buying
- Why Gold and Bitcoin are Popular: An Overview of Bearer Assets
- The “Four Monies” Visual
Health and Fitness:
I have a lifelong passion for health and fitness, am a former competitive mixed martial artist, and have experimented with and deeply researched a broad array of fitness strategies. I occasionally write about the topic here, with this article being the main one:
Digital Assets:
The articles in this category focus on digital assets, and in particular, Bitcoin.
- How to Value Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies
- 3 Reasons I’m Investing in Bitcoin
- 7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin
- Bitcoin: Addressing the Ponzi Scheme Characterization
- An Economic Analysis of Ethereum
- Analyzing Bitcoin’s Network Effect
- Bitcoin: Fee-Based Security Modeling
- Why Gold and Bitcoin are Popular: An Overview of Bearer Assets
- Bitcoin’s Energy Usage Isn’t a Problem. Here’s Why.
- Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma
- What is Money, Anyway?
- Digital Alchemy: A Post-Mortem of the Crypto Crash
- A Look at the Lightning Network
- The Problems with DeFi and Crypto
- Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks
- The Speed of Transactions vs the Speed of Settlements
- Assessing the Health of Bitcoin
- A New Look at Corporate Treasury Strategy
- The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bonds
- Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer
- Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Value