Welcome to Macro Voices

Erik Townsend and Aaron Chan welcome Simon Hunt to MacroVoices. Erik and Simon discuss:

• Internal political wars within China stagnating economic growth
• China's steady, step-wise approach to allowing firm bankruptcies
• Shift in global monetary policy power from Washington to Beijing
• Internal IMF battle for RMB's inclusion in SDR
• Looming inflation in commodity prices
• Logic behind China's stockpiling of raw commodities and base metals
• Strengthening strategic alliance between Russia and China
• Trump vs. Clinton impacts on financial markets
• Growing global discontent to USD "bully boy" tactics and de-dollarization
• Impending global stock market crash and economic reset within the next 5 years
• Gold's eventual reemergence as the global monetary base

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Erik Townsend and Aaron Chan welcome Michael Lebowitz to MacroVoices. Erik and Michael discuss:

• The saving discipline that drives the virtuous economic cycle and sustains prosperity
• A global economy untethered from demographics and productivity
• End game for the unvirtuous cycle of debt-fueled consumption
• Outlook for negative interest rate policies
• Brexit as representative of larger social, geopolitical, and wealth distributional forces
• Japan outlook given worst-in-class demographics and productivity growth
• Alternatives for savers throughout the demise of the virtuous cycle
• Trump v. Clinton impacts on global financial markets

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An interview which was originally published on April 14, 2016 with Roy Sebag and Josh Crumb, co-founders of Bitgold, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of Goldmoney, respectively.

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Erik Townsend and Aaron Chan welcome Alex Gurevich to MacroVoices. Erik and Alex discuss:

• Market reaction to latest FOMC policy decision
• Concurrent necessity and dominance of the long U.S. dollar trade
• Importance of placing current Fed actions in the context of historical rate-hiking cycles
• Egregiously cheap valuations on 10-year Treasury Notes
• Where we stand in the current bond bull market
• Gold's positive risk-reward and return expectations in the coming years
• Arguments for a long-Nikkei trade
• Opportunities in USD/JPY
• China's $30 trillion private debt unwind and history of imperial collapse
• Migrant and political crises' effects on the future of the Euro
• Capital market impacts of a Trump or Clinton presidency

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Erik Townsend and Aaron Chan welcome Raoul Pal to MacroVoices. Erik and Raoul discuss:

• Structural issues in LIBOR and Eurodollar markets as bullish for USD
• Outlook for Treasuries given recent sell-off in bonds
• Update on Raoul's business cycle framework
• 100% probability of recession following 2-term U.S. presidencies
• Recent spat of "Billionbears" coming to the forefront with downside calls
• Brexit contagion spreading into the rest of Europe
• Crowded risk-parity trades and reasons behind all-time short-VIX open interest
• Gold and USD pairs-trade timeline and expectations
• Monetary policy and the Fed's growing irrelevancy
• Precarious state of and systemic risk of the European banking sector
• Potential moonshot in soft commodities due to weather cycles
• Updates on new Realvision TV products and initiatives

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A conversation on April 4, 2016 between Grant Williams and Michael Schneider, Chief Investment Officer of Brookline Partners.

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Erik Townsend and Aaron Chan welcome Jeffrey Christian to MacroVoices. Erik and Jeffrey discuss:

• U.S. Dollar predictions and the range-bound outlook
• Brexit contagion and potential impacts on gold and silver
• Forward near-term guidane for gold and silver prices
• Outlooks for macroeconomic drivers of precious metals
• Economic and financial susceptibility given middling global GDP growth
• Rejecting old mental models with unprecedentedly low real and nominal interest rates 
• Excess reserve accumulation backfiring against Fed intentions
• Continued expected disinflationary and deflationary forces until monetary and/or fiscal policy shifts
• Low probability of a medium-term moonshot in precious metals prices assuming continued disinflation
• Billionaire investors going public with bearish economic and market calls
• Degradation of global political cooperation
• Trump vs. Clinton implications for global markets and precious metals

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Erik Townsend and Aaron Chan welcome Art Berman to MacroVoices. Erik and Art discuss:

• Looking beyond absolute inventory numbers and gleaning insights from comparative inventories
• Recent anomalous comparative builds relative to historic trends
• Continued time-spread compression reflecting producer hedging or lack of concern for a storage crisis
• The selective capital raising environment for producers
• Oil market balance and Saudi Arabia's fundamentally ineffectual 'production freeze'
• Stabilizing US production and evaporation of upside price catalysts
• Feedback loop of insanity in inventory builds and production
• Claims of sub-$40 producers in the Permian basin
• Concerns over consumption growth not aligning with change in prices
• Timing for a moonshot in oil prices following a period of supply destruction and investment deficits

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A conversation on January 5, 2016 between Grant Williams and Willem Middelkoop, founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund and author of the worldwide bestseller The Big Reset.

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Erik Townsend and Aaron Chan welcome Dr. Gary Shilling to MacroVoices. Erik and Gary discuss:

• The continued perception of the U.S. Dollar as a safe haven currency
• Why the long-bond trade isn't over and illuminate the forces driving yields lower
• Reasoning behind going long defensive stocks despite a bearish view on equities
• Time-horizon for $20 oil
• The global commodity supply overhang
• Helicopter money in the form of infrastructure and defense spending
• The impacts of a Clinton or Trump presidency on markets

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