Macro Voices Podcasts

Dr. Anas Alhajji

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Dr. Anas Alhajji to MacroVoices. Erik and Dr. Alhajji discuss:

  • Lessons learned after Russia/Ukraine conflict anniversary
  • SPR - What caused the recent big builds in inventory
  • Russian natural gas export
  • Oil price outlook
  • Internationalization of liquified gas and what’s ahead
  • Demand decline vs. demand destruction
  • Phasing out fossil fuels before finding viable replacements

 

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Julian Brigden

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Julian Brigden to MacroVoices. Erik and Julian discuss:

  • Has inflation topped and will it make its way down?
  • Expectations of a policy reversal
  • War cycle spending and its impact on the markets
  • Precious metals
  • European markets
  • Passive investing trend & return of volatility

 

 

 

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Dr. Pippa Malmgren

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Lakshman Achuthan

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Lakshman Achuthan to MacroVoices. Erik and Lakshman discuss:

  • Recession – what do the cycles say?
  • Hiking rates into a global recession
  • Business cycle & job losses
  • 1970s-Era CPI inflation
  • Impact of geopolitics on the cycle 
  • Impacts of development of AI on jobs

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Erik Townsend

In this episode: 

  • Introduction to Geothermal Energy
  • Deep Geothermal and Geothermal Electricity
  • Relevance of the shale oil revolution to Geothermal energy
  • Supercritical Geothermal Energy: Pumping serious heat
  • Technology breakthrough potential

 

 

 

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Erik Townsend

In this episode: 

  • History of the Crude Oil Market
  • We cannot phase out fossil fuels before phasing in viable alternatives
  • Low Hanging Fruit: Why oil production always gets more expensive over time
  • Hubbert’s Peak
  • Conventional vs. Non-Conventional Oil Production
  • OPEC Spare Capacity is all but exhausted

 

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Erik Townsend

In this episode: 

  • Societal Complexity & Pace of Human Advancement are a function of how much cheap, abundant energy is available to the economy
  • The importance of replacing Fossil Fuels with clean energy alternatives
  • Analysis of current energy supply & demand statistics
  • Why Electricity and Hydrogen are not energy sources 
  • What it’s really going to take to solve the problem (wind & solar alone are not enough!)

 

 

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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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Jim Bianco

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

  • Latest CPI data
  • Has Inflation peaked?
  • FOMC – Fed raising rates
  • How high will the terminal rate go
  • Outlook on treasury yields and high yield market
  • Current situation in China
  • Recent rally in gold 

 

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Luke Gromen

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

  • Is the bear market over?
  • Inflation and what’s driving the price inflation?
  • Injection of liquidity by central banks and increased deficits
  • Government debt spiral
  • Effects of bifurcation and deglobalization of global economy
  • Outlook on gold
  • Will the Fed change course?

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David Rosenberg

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

  • Recent bear market rallies – is the bottom in?
  • How the Fed will manage monetary policy
  • Has inflation peaked?
  • Recent rally in gold
  • Rising geopolitical conflicts and its impact on investors
  • China re-opening

 

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Pippa Malmgren

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

  • World War III – what it really means
  • Russia’s willingness to weaponize oil prices and what that means for the markets
  • Why is mainstream media keeping the public in the dark?
  • Russia/Ukraine conflict
  • Crypto currencies & CBDC’s
  • Start of a space race
  • Return of Donald Trump
  • Reopening of China

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