Macro Voices Podcasts

Erik Townsend welcomes Dr. Pippa Malmgren to MacroVoices. Erik and Pippa discuss:

• Update on European geopolitics
• What is in store for European migration
• Considerations on Turkish politics
• Geopolitics associated with the cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies
• Future of US dollars roll as world reserve currency
• Post Donald Trump Texas economics
• Understanding the PPT (Plunge Protection Team)

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Erik Townsend welcomes Dr. Ben Hunt to back MacroVoices. Erik and Ben discuss:

• Sea of Change at Central Banks
• Negative impact of Fed shrinking their balance sheet
• Janet Yellen just broke up with you
• Impact on the market conditions moving forward
• Considerations on interest rate and bond trends
• Fed impact on equity markets
• Considerations for the future of the ETF market
• Flaws of the volatility ETFs
• Considerations in the Real Estate Markets

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Erik Townsend welcomes Tian Yang to MacroVoices. Erik and Tian discuss:

• US growth cycle long in the tooth
• US LEI’s holding up but US recession key theme
• US credit cycle has definitely rolled over
• Global liquidity also deteriorating sharply
• China is also rolling over
• Looking at global equities
• Fixed income considerations
• Consideration on the US dollar
• Looking at Europe, Japan and Australia

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Erik Townsend welcomes Alex Gurevich back to MacroVoices. Erik and Alex discuss:

• Mario Draghi and ECB
• Short the Swiss Franc
• US Dollar outlook
• Trump reflation and the equity markets
• Views on secular interest rates
• Inflation trade
• Long-term sustainability of the European Union
• Outlook on China and Japan
• Canadian economy, real estate and Canadian dollar
• Consideration on the oil markets
• Precious metals outlook

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Erik Townsend welcomes Jesse Felder to MacroVoices. Erik and Jesse discuss:

• DeMark indicators and turning points in exhausted trends 
• Looking at current breadth indicators
• Considerations on share buybacks
• Are we at the secular turn in corporate share buybacks?
• Looking at the VIX short positioning
• Volatility targeting strategies like risk parity
• Is the market setting up for a crash or just a correction
• Demographic catalysts
• Real assets outperforming financial assets
• Can inflation runaway?
• Outlook on Precious metals

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Erik Townsend welcomes back Keith McCullough to MacroVoices. Erik and Keith discuss::

• Outlook on the US Dollar
• Is the reflation trade narrative rolling over
• Bullish outlook on the US markets and the Nasdaq
• Where are bond yields going?
• Are the secular lows in bond yields in?
• Outlook on Europe and the Euro
• Bitcoins and cryptocurrencies
• Outlook on the emerging markets
• Is there more upside in precious metals?
• Outlook on China’s debt and economy

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Erik Townsend welcomes Axel Merk to MacroVoices. Erik and Axel discuss:

• Mario Draghi and the ECB policy
• UK Election and what is at stake
• Future of the European Union
• Perspectives on the Trump reflation trade
• U.S. Dollar, fiscal and monetary policy
• Understanding the pension crisis
• Chinese Yuan devaluation
• Future of Japanese Debt and Yen

• Outlook on gold

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Erik Townsend welcomes Art Berman to MacroVoices. Erik and Art discuss:

• Perspective on OPEC and the 9-month extension on production cuts
• OPEC’s goal to keep a floor under oil prices
• Positioning of oil traders since February
• Reasons for lower oil prices
• Putting U.S. production into perspective
• Where does comparative inventory price Brent and WTI
• Inventory data and forecasts
• Impact of capital markets and central bank policy
• Early recovery from oil price collapse
• Correlation of U.S. debt to tight oil
• Term structure of the crude oil markets

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Erik Townsend welcomes Art Berman to MacroVoices. Erik and Art discuss:

• Perspective on OPEC and the 9-month extension on production cuts
• OPEC’s goal to keep a floor under oil prices
• Positioning of oil traders since February
• Reasons for lower oil prices
• Putting U.S. production into perspective
• Where does comparative inventory price Brent and WTI
• Inventory data and forecasts
• Impact of capital markets and central bank policy
• Early recovery from oil price collapse
• Correlation of U.S. debt to tight oil
• Term structure of the crude oil markets

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Erik Townsend welcomes Jeffrey Snider to MacroVoices. Erik and Jeffrey discuss:

• Understanding Eurodollars and the Eurodollar shortage
• The real drivers of the US Dollar bull market
• The flaws in the reflation trade narrative
• Looking at the swap spreads turning positive
• Inflation outlook
• Connection between Eurodollars and gold
• TIC US Banking Data – Caribbean, Europe, Asia
• Impact of QE on Eurodollars
• China and PBOC considerations
• Absolute improvement vs. relative

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Erik Townsend welcomes Professor Russell Napier to MacroVoices. Erik and Russell discuss:

• Is the U.S. Dollar bull market over?  
• Secular treasury bond bull market
• The coming pension crisis
• Inflation expectations
• Outlook for precious metals
• European exit contagion

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Erik Townsend welcomes Dr. Lacy Hunt to MacroVoices. Erik and Lacy discuss:

• Are the secular lows in interest rates in?
• Minsky vs. Kindelberger
• Is the U.S. “Turning Japanese”?
• Impact of demographics

• Negative interest rates
• Fed hiking into deteriorating economy
• Dollar viability as reserve currency
• European sovereign debt

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Erik Townsend welcomes Steve Keen to MacroVoices. Erik and Steve discuss:

• Insights into the French elections
• The next move in the US Dollar
• Is the bond bull market over?
• Considerations on the levels of private debt
• Geopolitics of North Korea and Syria
• The economics of China’s debt crisis
• Can we avoid another financial crisis
• Are we at the next Minsky moment?
• Housing bubbles in Canada and Australia
• Considerations for the U.S. housing market 

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Erik Townsend welcomes Martin Armstrong to MacroVoices. Erik and Martin discuss:

• Views on the U.S. Dollar
• The future of the European Union
• Bullish case for U.S. stocks
• Considerations for international money flows
• Future interest rate trends
• Looking at government debt
• Geopolitics of North Korea and Syria
• Considerations on China and the debt crisis

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Erik Townsend welcomes Danielle DiMartino Booth to MacroVoices. Erik and Danielle discuss:

• Looking at the Fed from the inside
• Shadow Banking System
• Reflecting on the Global Financial Crisis
• The culture at the Reserve Banks
• What should be done with the Fed?
• Can interest rates ever be normalized?
• Considerations on the Underfunded Pensions
• What needs to happen next? 

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Erik Townsend welcomes Lance Roberts to MacroVoices. Erik and Lance discuss:

• Liquidity Driven Markets
• Fed Balance Sheet Driving Asset Prices
• Margin Debt Net Credit Balance
• Margin Debt as a % of Real GDP
• Total Liabilities & Equity /GVA
• Total System Leverage
• The Economic Deficit
• Peaks in Real Profit Margins

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Erik Townsend welcomes Juliette Declercq to MacroVoices. Erik and Juliette discuss:

• US Dollar, 10-year UST and the FOMC
• Red string of fate ties U.S. to China
• Perspective on the FOMC policy
• Perspectives on the business cycle
• Where is the ISM heading next
• Impact on Trump’s tax and infrastructure spending
• Surprises for the French election

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Erik Townsend welcomes Julian Brigden to MacroVoices. Erik and Julian discuss:

• U.S. Dollar impact on the U.S. shale bubble
• Peak acceleration in ISM manufacturing
• Headline inflation peaking
• Fed tightening going to start to impact data
• Bond shorting opportunity is over
• Risks to the reflationary trades
• Wage trends in the U.S.
• Perspective on European growth and inflation
• Relative pricing between U.S. and European bunds

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Erik Townsend welcomes Jeffrey Christian to MacroVoices. Erik and Jeff discuss:

• Outlook on the US Dollar
• Secular bullish call on gold
• Outlook on silver
• Current demand for physical gold
• Platinum and palladium
• Current fundamentals on lithium
• Macro outlook on the economy and stock markets
• Views on the European Union
• Outlook for China and Russia

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Erik Townsend welcomes Art Berman to MacroVoices. Erik and Art discuss:

• Catalyst for the current decline in oil
• Lack of confidence in OPEC
• Record levels of oil inventories
• Comparative inventories to past years
• World production surplus
• Global liquids consumption growth
• OECD incremental liquids Inventory
• EIA U.S. crude oil forecast

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