Macro Voices Podcasts

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

• Outlook on gold - Is the recent breakout a false alarm?
• How to manage market view vs. long term strategy
• Update on Nevsun investment
• Comparison between individual stock investing vs. GDX, GDXJ performance
• Private placements and how it works
• Investing in mCloud
• Upcoming VRIC – what to expect 

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Dr. Pippa Malmgren to MacroVoices. Erik and Pippa discuss:

• Knowledge doubling curve
• Collection and monetization of personal data 
• Ephemeralization- what does it mean and what are its consequences?
• Rise of E-sports : is there an investment opportunity?
• Catalysts that will bring central bank dominance over financial markets to an end
• Privacy and voluntary total surveillance
• AR: Augmented Reality – how does it work and what are its implications and consequences
• Generation Z vs. baby boomers and underfunded social security
• Autonomous vehicles – how will it change the future?

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

• IEA’s forecast of oil glut in 2020
• Perspectives on Mark Gordon’s thesis – age of peak oil to age of abundance
• Unaccounted for oil
• CoT chart – pick up in open interest, what does that mean?
• Oil price outlook
• Comparative inventory system 
• Strategies for investing in oil
• Reasons behind increasing DUC’s 

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

• Views on Zoltan Pozsar’s theory of repo dislocation
• Perspective on the Fed
• Is QE4 imminent?
• Negative yielding sovereign debt - what’s next?
• Perspectives on the next economic downturn
• What is on the horizon for the bond market 
• Consequences of negative yielding debt going to no-bid
• Outlook on fixed income market

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

• Perspectives on the latest FOMC meeting
• Is China a part of reflation equation?
• Perspectives on inflation
• Will ECB hike or the Fed lower to zero in 2020?
• Expectations of fiscal responses to macroeconomic challenges
• Translating the macro views to trading strategies
• Outlook on US equities 
• US/China trade deal news driven move in the market – should we take it seriously?
• Outlook on gold

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SPECIAL POST GAME GUEST- Jeff Snider

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

• Inventory is not what drives the price
• Hubbert’s peak –regime change from the age of peak oil to the age of abundance
• Has conventional production reached its peak?
• Shale oil vs. offshore oil
• Why “the day of reckoning” will happen soon
• Electric vehicles – declining sales and outlook going forward
• Possible impacts the recession will have on oil prices

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Jeffrey Christian to MacroVoices. Erik and Jeffrey discuss:

• Electric Vehicles – where is the energy coming from?
• Is “nuclear renaissance” imminent?
• What is going to be the mode of power in the future and how will it be delivered
• Replacing petroleum and what impact it has on geopolitics
• Changing roles of Russia and China in geopolitics

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Peter Boockvar to MacroVoices. Erik and Peter discuss:

• Global macro outlook 
• Will US get to negative interest rates?
• The recent back-up in yields - is this a trend reversal or a correction
• Inevitability of inflation and its effects on central banks
• Is this the end of the bond bubble?
• Perspectives on Christine Lagarde, ECB and Brexit
• Outlook on US/China trade negotiations
• Fed’s “insurance” cuts– what’s next?
• Portfolio positioning strategies 
• Gold-Silver ratio and portfolio allocation in precious metals.

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

• Perspective on late cycle dynamics
• Update on the steepener narrative 
• Cross asset momentum reversal and what is coming next?
• CTA position estimating model – how does it work?
• Equity and bond market outlook
• Significant upside potential in VIX – could it be the next blow-up event?
• Gold outlook – is it time to buy?

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Keith McCullough to MacroVoices. Erik and Keith discuss:

• Q4 2019 Macro themes–What is next? 
• Inflation or stagflation – is time to own gold?
• What is next for the Chinese economy?
• Outlook on US dollar
• Equity markets – FOMO vs. deteriorating earnings expectations
• Perspective on the market melt up
• Labor share of income and corporate margins
• Long short pairs trade in software industry

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

• Perspectives on the latest FOMC meeting
• Treasury market - is it time to go long?
• Next FOMC meeting forecast
• Short term and long term views on Gold - is it time to buy?
• Outlook on US dollar
• Christine Lagarde and ECB - what's next for Euro currency
• Outlook on global and US equity markets
• Perspectives on the Chinese credit expansion

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

• Contrarian investment thesis – the energy world is flat vs. the anti-bubbles
• Concept of Anti-Bubble
• Monetary Policies without limits, what’s next?
• Term premia, credit risk, equity risk and liquidity premia
• Limits of negative rates
• Gold, treasuries and insurance
• Balanced portfolios and portfolio construction

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Stephanie Pomboy to MacroVoices. Erik and Stephanie discuss:

• Late economic cycle – what’s next?
• Perspective on the expansion of the FED’s balance sheet
• Significance of the recent liquidity shock
• Discretionary spending, revolving credit and retail sales
• Inventories to sales ratio, outlook on profits
• Divergence between corporate profits and S&P
• Outlook for the 4th Quarter 
• Perspectives on MMT
• Is it finally time to short junk bond market?
• Outlook on Gold

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SPECIAL POST GAME GUEST- Rick Rule

Strategies for participating in gold equities bull market

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Tian Yang to MacroVoices. Erik and Tian discuss:

• Economic and liquidity leading indicators
• Growth slowdown and risks of a recession
• US/China trade war and its implications on the markets
• Translating economic signals into market decisions
• Impacts of Europe/ECB on global market system
• Tail hedges and the risks in the market
• Perspectives on global dollar shortage and the repo market
• Possibilities of QE in Q4
• Recent divergence in value and growth
• Outlook on emerging markets

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SPECIAL POST GAME GUEST- Amir Adnani

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

• Has monetary policy lost its effectiveness
• Shift in dominance from monetary policy to fiscal policy
• Political drivers of changes in monetary policy
• Generational and political gap and its impact on the economy
• Outlook on equity market
• Perspectives on the current bond market
• Outlook on precious metals

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

• MOVE index as a leading economic indicator
• Reversal in bond yields and what's coming next
• Corporate buybacks and the divergence of the S&P500 from the global economy
• Is the US going to follow Europe into negative rates?
• How the upcoming election may affect both fiscal and monetary policy
• Possibilities of a bond market crisis and what to expect
• Perspectives on recent breakout in gold
• "The Opposite of Bad is Worse" and perspectives on negative rates
• Buying opportunities in negative rates

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SPECIAL POST GAME GUEST- Kevin Muir

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

• Current US dollar liquidity squeeze
• Impact of changing Eurodollar markets
• Understanding the global banking system
• Do interest rates influence dollar liquidity?
• What does the Fed do now?
• China, PBOC and the dollar problem
• Global dollar liquidity shortage
• Future changes in global reserve currencies

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Grant Williams to MacroVoices. Erik and Grant discuss:

• Global negative yielding debt
• US Treasury market and equity market
• Outlook on MMT and monetary policies
• Is the inverted yield curve an indicator for recession?
• Is US stock market recession-proof?
• Outlook on gold and other precious metals
• "Unicorn" companies

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Danielle DiMartino-Booth and Peter Boockvar to MacroVoices. They discuss:

• Financial repression
• China and trade war
• Outlook on US dollar
• Europe, the ECB and Chrstine Lagarde
• Outlook on Gold
• What happens next?

In Part 1 they discussed:

• FOMC statement and historic rate cut
• Are we in a currency war?
• Risks of a recession in the U.S.
• Main Street vs. Wall Street
• How do risk assets react to a new QE?
• Inflation risks moving forward
• Modern Monetary Theory

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