Macro Voices Podcasts

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Harley Bassman to MacroVoices. Erik and Harley discuss:

• What’s needed to hedge against rising interest rates
• “Financial Tsunami” and what that would mean for the markets
• Reasons behind Harley’s new project with Simplify
• The new ETF, PFIX– who is it for?  
• How rising interest rates will cause systemic risks in the market
• How PFIX  can protect portfolio  
• Perspectives on inflation

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Dylan Grice to MacroVoices. Erik and Dylan discuss:

• Inflation vs. Deflation
• US 10yr Yield outlook
• Reasons why there is potential for a big rally in crude oil
• Perspectives on oil and transitioning into EV
• Portfolio composition to play inflation
• Asymmetric trade opportunities
• ECB and the Fed – where are they headed?
• Risks of central banks intertwining with politics

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Charlie McElligott to MacroVoices. Erik and Charlie discuss:

• Deflation vs. Inflation
• Can US Treasury 10yr Yields  press 2%?
• Sentiment and vol factors and thematic reversal risk
• Nomura Vol control model anticipates potential “buy flows”
• Thematic & Factor risk premia performance trends
• SPX/SPY Consolidated $Gamma/$Delta

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Art Berman to MacroVoices. Erik and Art discuss:

• General outlook on oil
• Factors causing continuous decline in production
• Why should we not expect increases in price?
• OPEC spare capacity vs Brent price
• Reasons to expect demand to return to pre-pandemic levels by end of 2021
• Price outlook for the rest of 2021
• Increase in price vs. rig count
• Impact of electrification on oil

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Jeff Snider to MacroVoices. Erik and Jeff discuss:

• Why deflation?
• Was it really a historic sell-off in bond market?
• Why the government wants inflation
• US Treasury yield curve vs. Eurodollar yield curve
• Will the Fed stick to the zero lower bound for the foreseeable future?
• Definition of reflation vs. recovery
• Underwhelming current reflationary sell-off
• Inflation expectations in the TIPS market

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Jesse Felder to MacroVoices. Erik and Jesse discuss:

• Inflation outlook and its main drivers
• S&P500 index and margin debt to GDP analysis
• Potential peak in earnings growth ahead
• Corporate profit margins vs. Labor share
• Stocks vs. Interest rates, Interest Rates vs. Financial Instability
• Gold and crypto currency
• How value investing works in overpriced asset conditions

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Steven Van Metre to MacroVoices. Erik and Steven discuss:

• Why deflation, why not inflation?
• QE – how it really works
• Why is the current MMT inspired stimulus not inflationary?
• Reasons why there is a need for existing bank reserves for QE
• What will the next stimulus bring?  
• What is a liquidity trap and why we’re headed towards it
• Implications of liquidity trap and how to resolve it
• Outlook on bond yields

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Robert Friedland to MacroVoices. Erik and Robert discuss:

• How investors should think about decarbonization
• Green Revolution – is there an investment in build out of a new electric grid?
• What to invest in to benefit from the electrification of the global economy
• EV and advancement in batteries – is nickel unavoidable?
• How investors should look at advancement in battery technology
• Perspectives on commercialization of Thorium reactors
• The technology needed in order to deliver safe and unlimited electric energy 

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Juliette Declercq to MacroVoices. Erik and Juliette discuss:

• Is secular inflation upon us?
• What to make of the rise in long-term bond yields?
• Are higher yields threatening an equity bear market?
• Ongoing sector rotation between cyclicals/value and growth sectors
• What should the FED do next?
• Outlook on dollar and gold

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Diego Parrilla to MacroVoices. Erik and Diego discuss:

• Inflation vs. Deflation narrative
• Rates market – at what point will the Fed intervene?
• Negative treasury yield and what that means for equity market
• VIX on the rise – is the market topping?
• Outlook on Gold
• DXY – are we seeing a reversal on the horizon?

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Ole Hansen to MacroVoices. Erik and Ole discuss:

• Return of a commodity bull market
• Increasing real yields vs. gold
• Green revolution – which commodity will benefit?
• Increasing demand in Copper
• Record long exposure in hedge funds – is this where the market tops?
• Why Roll Yields matter
• Green transformation and its relationship to correlations in commodities
• Crude oil – are we nearing a top?
• Outlook on agriculture, Uranium

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Lyn Alden to MacroVoices. Erik and Lyn discuss:

• Perspectives on mainstream deflationists adopting a new inflation view
• Limits to excessive deficit spending and fiscal stimulus
• Fiscal vs. Monetary dominance
• Macro asset allocation strategy in fiscal dominance environment
• Perspectives on the Fed’s yield control
• U.S. broad money supply vs. Japanese broad money supply
• Outlook on Gold and Bitcoin

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Louis-Vincent Gave to MacroVoices. Erik and Louis discuss:

• Energy prices and inflation
• What is driving the stock market to its all-time highs despite the pandemic
• Has the oil market priced in the recovery?
• Perspectives on the recent Copper rally and how far can it go?
• Will Singapore replace Hong Kong as the financial centre of Asia?
• European market outlook

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SPECIAL POST GAME GUEST : Kevin Muir - The MacroTourist

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Julian Brigden to MacroVoices. Erik and Julian discuss:

• Last year’s bullish outlook - does it still stand?

• Is the current level of spending in the economy being propped up by stimulus?
• APPL, TSLA and the classic bubble
• Why would the FED allow the bond market to clear at a market rate?
• Upside risks to treasury yields
• Perspectives on impending secular inflation

• How long do we have until we have a runaway inflation problem?
• What is the right metric that would indicate when things turn bad?

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Jim Bianco to MacroVoices. Erik and Jim discuss:

• Deflation vs. Inflation outlook
• What could contain and remedy the impending inflation?
• Investing strategies for inflation
• Coronavirus update
• Wall Street Bets –who’s behind it and what’s going on?
• Last week was GME, and now it’s Silver – will there be another squeeze?

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Russell Napier to MacroVoices. Erik and Russell discuss:

• How are stocks rallying to new all-time highs amidst the ongoing pandemic?

• Stimulus into real economy – will this still support the stock market?
• How far Bond Yields could go
• Financial repression and inflation outlook
• Inflation may be good in the beginning but for how long?
• Benefits of inflation on the stock market

• Perspectives on commodities including Copper and agriculture
• Gold vs. Bitcoin
• Is there a strategy to evade financial repression?

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Mike Green to MacroVoices. Erik and Mike discuss:

• Are we finally headed toward a global digital currency?

• Benefits of secure digital bearer asset currency 
• Lack of discussion regarding the adoption of the technology behind Bitcoin
• Will the governments eventually accept the use of cryptocurrency?
• CBDC – Central Bank Digital Currency
• Why some large institutions are buying Bitcoin as store of value 

• Bitcoin vs. Ethereum

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Luke Gromen to MacroVoices. Erik and Luke discuss:

• Is this the beginning of the end for the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency?

• Relative decline to other fiat currencies or loss of purchasing power?
• Democratic control of the Senate – how does this affect yields?
• When will deficits start to matter?
• How do you translate the current state of the dollar into investment strategies?
• Bitcoin vs. Gold

• Are we finally at a point of runaway wage & price inflation?

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Art Berman to MacroVoices. Erik and Art discuss:

• Saudi Arabia’s production cut decision and what this means
• Will U.S. shale industry recover?
• Expected decline in demand in oil
• Analysis of current comparative inventory report
• Pandemic and U.S. consumption recovery – what does this mean for gasoline?
• Perspectives on previous prediction of a big decline in U.S. production in Q1
• Can OPEC compensate for loss of U.S. production?
• Lag times between getting the rig started to actual oil production and what this means
• Price vs. Comparative inventory yield curve

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Ronald Stoeferle and Grant Williams to MacroVoices. Erik and the panlists discuss:

• How to trade a fiat currency debasement
• Hedging or trading inflation
• Gold, silver, platinum and palladium 
• Hard assets like real estate including farmland
• Copper and iron ore and the battery metals
• Energy as an inflation hedge

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