Welcome to Macro Voices

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Jeroen Blokland to MacroVoices. Erik and Jeroen discuss:

• Is inflation transitory?

• Policy response to inflation
• Supply chain disruption
• Bullish sentiment in the stock market
• Portfolio allocation
• Reflecting on last week’s FOMC 

• China and Evergrande
• Perspectives on Bitcoin

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

• Macro outlook
• The two types of inflation
• Unemployment rate and wage inflation
• How will the Fed react to rising wages?
• Wealth accumulation by generations and income inequality

• Supply and demand imbalances

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

• Is this inflation secular or cyclical?
• Wage inflation and unemployment rate
• Correlation between inflation and interest rate
• Is this beginning of a bond-bear market?
• Investment strategy in the current bond market landscape

• Will Jay Powell be re-appointed?
• Outlook on China
• Perspectives on DeFi 

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Erik Townsend and this week's guest host Kevin Muir welcome Paull Krake to MacroVoices. Erik and Paul discuss:

• Major macro themes to observe
• Megathematics
• Perspectives on China
• Hong Kong’s loss of independence and its impact on financial landscape
• Climate change and ESG trend

• Will the FED actually taper?
• What’s next for digitization and DeFi

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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Wayne Himelsein to MacroVoices. Erik and Wayne discuss:

• Long Vol vs. Short Vol strategies
• Mitigating carry cost of long vol strategies 
• Actively trading to manage negative carry
• Straddles as a long vol trade 
• Sizing a long vol hedge in a portfolio
• Dynamic management of a long vol trade

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Erik Townsend welcomes Dr. Pippa Malmgren and Clint Cox to MacroVoices. Erik and the guests discuss:

• Importance of Decentralized Finance
• How to navigate DeFi revolution as an investor
• Will credit be re-engineered in a digital currency system?
• Geopolitical consequences of displacing USD as global reserve currency with new digital central bank reserve asset

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Erik Townsend welcomes Dr. Pippa Malmgren and Clint Cox to MacroVoices. Erik and the guests discuss:

• Digital currency & decentralized finance vs. conventional currency and finance system
• Cryptocurrency, Central Bank Digital Currencies and Silicon Valley Digital Currencies
• Can CBDCs coexist peacefully with non-government cryptocurrencies?
• Big tech impact on digital currency systems

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

• Will there be disinflation before secular inflation?
• Global Manufacturing PMI & Industrial Growth cycles
• Post GFC – when does national debt becomes problematic?
• Commodities – what to expect cyclically
• Outlook on precious metals
• Does the downturn in economic cycle call for recession?

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SPECIAL POST GAME GUEST- Grant Williams

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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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