Covered Calls for Beginners 2021: Step-by-step guide to collect the RENTAL RETURN every single month on shares already owned

Wow. What a year 2020 has been. We went from the stock market hitting record highs to having the largest single week decline since the 2008 Financial Crisis. Then within six months we were back to the previous highs again.However this year was just part of a larger period of unprecedented economic activity. While the stock market saw one of its best decades ever after the lows we experienced after the 2008 financial crisis. Economic recovery has hinged on something that is almost artificial.Governments initially began printing money in the form Quantative Easing to prevent the entire financial ecosystem from collapsing. They quickly got used to the habit though and now printing money is second nature to them. Another monetary policy theyve adhered to is rock-bottom interest rates. The theory behind this being that with interest rates so low consumers will be less fearful of borrowing cash to fund purchases. This in turn will kickstart the economy.Thats the theory anyway. In practice results have varied. While American economic activity increased the likes of Japan never truly recovered. The Japanese economy has grown at a fixed rate of 1.14% (well below other developed nations) since 1986 and interest rates have been at an all time low throughout this time. However the recent pandemic has wiped out even those meager gains and the economy has fallen back to the same level it held in 2008.For an investor this environment has been a tricky one to navigate. Buying an index fund that tracks the S&P 500 would have been a profitable investment. On the flip side though we have the specter of increased inflation thanks to relentless money printing. There is also the fact that rock-bottom interest rates dont provide any saf sources of income. In the past savings accounts and certificates of deposit provided some degree of investment return that allowed you to stay ahead of inflation.This isnt the case anymore. Inflation is currently hovering at around one percent but is projected to increase to around two percent (Ferreira 2019). In 1999 the average return for a 1 year bank CD was 4.85%. Today that same 1 year CD pays just 0.46% which doesnt even allow you to keep up with inflation.At this point savings accounts arent really savings accounts; theyre more like depletion accounts as inflation eats away at the real value of your money. In such an environment alternative investments have gained popularity. Gold and silver prices have surged thanks to the steady devaluation that paper money printing has caused. Cryptocurrencies have risen in popularity to the point where theyre a bona fide alternative investment class.Even the likes of hedge fund managers such as Paul Tudor Jones have dedicated portions of their portfolio to invest in cryptocurrencies (Schatzker 2020). The central idea behind all of these investments is that theyre a hedge.