Macro Voices Podcasts

Erik Townsend welcomes Harley Bassman to MacroVoices. Erik and Harley discuss:

• Creation of the MOVE index 
• The three Drivers of Risk:  Duration, Credit, and Convexity
• The demographic of the Baby Boomers continues to drive financial markets
• Looking at the long-term profile of changes in the Labor Force
• Changes in Labor Force growth leads 10-year yields
• Labor participation rates are highly demographic
• Considerations on inflation risks:  Yes…..but not until 2024 when the Boomer/Millennial demographic inflects
• Perspective on CAPE ratio levels
• Correlation of buybacks to cumulative flows
• Gold is not an asset, but rather an alternative currency
• Flow of active to passive management is building a negatively convex foundation
• Triggers for a market correction

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

• The Basel Accords
• Capital Reserve Ratios
• Understanding risk weightings
• Leverage in bank capital
• Considerations on JPM RiskMetrics
• Basic interbank function
• Interbank function under Basel

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

• Comparative inventory levels on oil 
• Oil price responsive to inventories
• Realization price recovery in crude prices takes time
• Refinery intakes have not recovered
• Where are average consumption levels
• Outlook on gasoline & distillate stocks
• Backwardation on WTI
• Considerations on OPEC-NOPEC production cuts
• Global market balance on oil

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

• Outlook on the US Dollar
• Global de-dollarization
• Outlook on gold and silver
• Considerations on basic materials
• Why are grains so weak?
• Considerations on new crude oil contract with settlement in yuan, backed by gold 
• The next Fed Chairman
• ECB policy considerations and decentralization trends in Europe
• Considerations on the Russian economy
• Credit issues in China

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

• The case of the missing money
• Transformation of banking into a wholesale model
• Radical monetary evolution
• Wholesale vs Offshore Eurodollars
• Understanding the great inflation of the 1970s
• Repo markets of the 1970s
• Development of the Shadow Banking System

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Erik Townsend welcomes Mark Yuskov to MacroVoices. Erik and Mark discuss:

• US Dollar bear thesis from 2016
• Petrodollar world
• Ascendance of the Renminbi
• Treasury bonds as a reserve asset
• Crude oil contract traded in yuan convertible to gold
• One Belt One Road Initiative
• Has the blow off top on the dollar occurred?
• Incrementalism

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Mark Yusko Interview Part 2: All Things Macro 

• Is there room for further upside on the stock markets?
• Is the secular bond bull market over? 
• Inflation outlook
• Precious metals and commodities

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Erik Townsend welcomes Mark Grant to MacroVoices. Erik and Mark discuss:

• Outlook for the US Dollar and Euro
• Where are the US equity markets going?
• Impact of Global CB policy vs the FED
• Is the 35-year bond bull market over?
• Impact of the hurricanes on the economy
• Outlook for Gold and Silver
• Considerations on European geopolitics
• Perspectives on China’s credit bubble
• Underfunded pension crisis
• Escalation of North Korea tensions

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Erik Townsend welcomes Hugh Hendry to MacroVoices. Erik and Hugh discuss:

• Global economic outlook
• Is wage and price inflation coming?
• Outlook for the US dollar
• Where are interest rates and the yield curve going?
• Bond volatility vs. steepener
• Consideration on precious metals
• Outlook for the Global equity markets
• The credit bubble in China
• Outlook for the Macro hedge fund industry

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Erik Townsend welcomes Luke Gromen to MacroVoices. Erik and Luke discuss:

• Why be bearish on the US Dollar?
• Do budget deficits matter?
• New yuan oil contract changing global landscape
• Impact on global Eurodollar system
• Long gold, short oil
• What is wrong with a new QE?
• Impact on global holding of Treasury Bonds
• Is inflation in the US a risk?
• Is the economic endgame starting?

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

• How Dollar becomes ‘Dollar’
• Bankers’ Acceptances
• The Evolution of Eurodollars
• Where do Eurodollars come from?
• Money as interbank liabilities
• What exactly are Eurodollars?
• Transformation of banking into a wholesale model

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Erik Townsend welcomes Joe McMonigle to MacroVoices. Erik and Joe discuss:

• Is the oil supply glut rebalancing?
• Is OPEC just jawboning the market?
• Import data impacting oil inventories
• Outlook for U.S. oil production
• Update on Venezuelan geopolitics
• What can go wrong with Iran?
• Is the Petrodollar system at risk?
• Is the Saudi Aramco IPO going to happen?
• Is the term structure signaling bullish prices

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Erik Townsend welcomes Josh Crumb to MacroVoices. Erik and Josh discuss:

• Perspectives on what is gold?
• Energy defining the price of gold
• Interest rates influence on gold
• Gold vs. cryptocurrencies
• Government sponsored cryptocurrencies
• Outlook for the US dollar
• Forecast for gold prices
• Impact stock market volatility would have on gold prices
• Considerations on silver and bitcoins
• Allocated vs. unallocated gold and gold ETFs

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Erik Townsend welcomes Neil Howe to MacroVoices. Erik and Neil discuss:

• What is the Fourth Turning?
• Why the Fourth Turning started with GFC
• Is there another big global event on the horizon?
• Future changes in political landscape
• What to expect for the next decade?
• Impact of baby boomers retiring
• Understanding the Homelander generation
• Silent vs. Homelander generation
• Reflections on the Fourth Turning book and new consideration

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Erik Townsend welcomes Raoul Pal and Julian Brigden to MacroVoices. Erik, Raoul and Julian discuss:

• Views on the US Dollar
• Perspectives on equities and business cycle?
• Outlook on the bond bull market
• Will we see a new bull market in precious metals?
• Demographics and Japan
• Considerations on the coming pension crisis
• Where is oil going next?
• Parallels to the 1990’s business cycle

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Erik Townsend welcomes Chris Whalen to MacroVoices. Erik and Chris discuss:

• Perspectives on the U.S. dollar pullback
• Considerations on the overvalued equity markets
• Corporate debt and interest rate trends
• Outlook on bonds and levels of private debt
• Trump bump and the aftermath
• Is the secular bond bull market over
• Reflecting back on Chris’s book – Inflated
• Considerations on the coming pension crisis
• Highlights on Chris’s new book – Ford Men

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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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