About Erik Townsend

hedge fund manager Erik Townsend

Erik Townsend is a retired software entrepreneur turned hedge fund manager. Throughout his career, Erik has capitalized on his ability to understand complex systems and anticipate paradigm shifts far in advance of the mainstream. Read More...

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Jeff Snider

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

  • Inflation in post-pandemic period
  • Soft landing?
  • Energy
  • European market
  • Has the fed successfully contained inflation?
  • China reopening

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Erik Townsend

In this episode: 

  • Breeder Reactors & Why they’re important
  • Thorium fueled reactors
  • The Waste Burner Reactor: Burning yesteryear’s nuclear waste as fuel
  • Nuclear Fusion & Why it can’t help in the crisis timeframe
  • Erik’s prescriptions for solving the coming crisis

 

 

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Alex Gurevich

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Alex Gurevich to MacroVoices. Erik and Alex discuss:

  • Reflecting on the Fed’s press release
  • Inflation
  • Crude oil outlook
  • Is it time to buy bonds?
  • Fed’s impact on financial markets
  • What’s next for gold

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Erik Townsend

In this episode: 

  • Why there’s no alternative to nuclear for finding 156,000 TWh of clean energy
  • Shortcomings of Light Water reactors
  • The ORNL Molten Salt Reactor Experiment & why it was cancelled
  • Why Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima should have been prevented
  • Why we need a crisis to precede a Nuclear Renaissance
  • Overcoming Weapons Proliferation & Waste Disposal objections
  • Way of the future: Small, modular reactors built in factories

 

 

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Viktor Shvets

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Viktor Shvets to MacroVoices. Erik and Viktor discuss:

  • Reflections on Ukraine/Russia conflict and its impact on the globe
  • Inflation outlook
  • Interest rates, GDP & recession outlook
  • Perspectives on equities and gold
  • Re-opening of China, conflict between China/Taiwan

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Lyn Alden

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

  • Energy outlook
  • Decoupling of unemployment rate vs. federal deficit
  • Reflexive effects of social security trust drawdown
  • Debt and gold
  • Interest expense
  • Fed remittances
  • Increase in banks holding of treasuries
  • Recession outlook & commodities outlook

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Robert Friedland

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

  • Global energy crisis
  • Impacts on oil prices if Russia withholds oil export
  • Importance of Saudi Arabia’s role
  • Global recession and energy prices
  • Geothermal energy
  • Drilling vs. Spalling
  • Copper – supply and demand

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Darius Dale

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Darius Dale to MacroVoices. Erik and Dale discuss:

  • Is the bear market over?
  • What to expect in first half of 2023 
  • Chronology of stock market moves with impending recession
  • Implications of deglobalized world economy
  • Weaponization of inflation
  • Outlook on commodities and gold

 

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Justin Huhn

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Justin Huhn to MacroVoices. Erik and Justin discuss:

  • Overall investment argument for nuclear energy
  • Bifurcation of nuclear energy market
  • Available options for investing in nuclear
  • Strategy for investing in miners
  • Invest in the fuel or in the technology?
  • Understanding the nuclear fuel cycle and how to invest in it
  • Investing in conversion and enrichment

 

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Mark Nelson

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Mark Nelson to MacroVoices. Erik and Mark discuss:

  • History of nuclear power industry
  • Nuclear waste disposal
  • Nuclear weapons proliferation risk
  • How the nuclear decommissioning fund works
  • Potential alternatives to nuclear energy
  • Advanced nuclear
  • Nuclear fuel cycle

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