Macro Voices Podcasts

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Brent Johnson to MacroVoices. Erik and Brent discuss:

• Resiliency of the US dollar
• The Dollar Milkshake Theory
• Inflation vs Deflation
• Portfolio allocation
• Gold, Bitcoin and digital assets

• Agricultural commodities vs industrial commodities

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Bill Blain to MacroVoices. Erik and Bill discuss:

• Is Inflation here to stay?
• Threat of stagflation 
• How probable is runaway inflation?
• Chinese capitalism vs Western capitalism
• Outlook on US/China relations

• Gold vs Crypto
• How to hedge in real asset market
• MMT and wealth inequality
• Perspectives on ESG

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

• Inflation vs. Deflation
• Trend in growth
• Measuring trend change and trend reversal
• Impending “second wave” of secular inflation
• How to invest in secular inflation narrative

• Long-term outlook on monetary policy
• Cyclical forces in the economy

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Aaran Param to MacroVoices. Erik and Aaran discuss:

• Inflation – secular or transitory?
• Where to invest in equity market
• What’s next for the dollar
• How to play EM vs DM
• Perspectives on China

• Bond market outlook
• Commodity super cycle
• Oil, gold & precious metals

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

• Inflation vs. disinflation
• “Everything will go to zero”
• Cause of changes in economic behavior and social attitude
• Generation cycles and fourth turning
• Capital markets and Fed policy – where are they headed?

• Is the only possible direction for interest rates to go up?

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Eric Peters to MacroVoices. Erik and Eric discuss:

• Views on current inflation narrative
• How to hedge in a transitory inflation environment
• Consequences and implications of secular inflation
• How long it will take for inflation to go from “good” to “bad”
• Will digital currency eventually replace fiat currency?

• Will Bitcoin benefit from CBDC?

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Daniel Lacalle to MacroVoices. Erik and Daniel discuss:

• Views on inflation

• Recovery – how differences in sentiment will impact demand
• Logic behind central banks policy trend toward tapering
• Where will continued money printing lead us?
• Perspectives on ESG aware investing trend
• Energy market outlook

• Digital currency – where are we headed?

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Philip Verleger to MacroVoices. Erik and Philip discuss:

• IEA’s forecast on shutting down the oil industry
• What will happen to price action at the wind-down of the industry
• Perspectives on inflation
• What would happen if this inflation is not transitory?
• Carbon sequestration and carbon credits
• Metals and petroleum – why is China selling metals?
• ESG and nuclear energy
• Outlook on oil

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Steve Keen to MacroVoices. Erik and Steve discuss:

• Relationship between inflation and bond rates
• Perspectives on recent action of US 10yr Treasury yield
• MMT – how will this concept be adopted?
• Will MMT create even more private debt and is there a way to avoid it?
• Debunking ESG for investors 
• Rebuttal to William Nordhaus 
• Steve’s new book - The New Economics: A Manifesto 

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Marin Katusa to MacroVoices. Erik and Marin discuss:

• Options that exist for accredited investors in precious metals market

• Private placement in precious metals and how it works
• Pros and cons of Capital Introduction industry 
• Disadvantages of using a broker
• What Katusa Research newsletter offers
• Access to private placement and financing vs. public market

• Marin’s new book: The Rise of America

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Larry McDonald to MacroVoices. Erik and Larry discuss:

Relationship between inflation and treasury yields

• Outlook on US/China relations
• What to expect in equity and bond market
• Drivers of upcoming price increase in oil
• Trading opportunities in energy market
• “Alpha Male Central Banker”
• Breakdown of the dollar and its implications
• Oil demand expectations in the re-opening 

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome David Rosenberg to MacroVoices. Erik and David discuss:

• Are we really facing secular inflation?
• How the recent stimulus impacts the inflation narrative
• FED has it right – this inflation is a “transitory phenomenon”
• How to play against the popular narrative that secular inflation is imminent
• Why this inflation is transitory
• Outlook on treasury yields

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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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