Macro Voices

Hosted by Hedge Fund Manager Erik Townsend

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300

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Oct 2026

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Weekly market commentary by retired Hedge Fund Manager Erik Townsend and interviews with the brightest minds in the world of finance and macroeconomics.

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October 22, 2026Episode 13491 hr 39 min

MacroVoices #554 Dr. Anas Alhajji + Louis-Vincent Gave: Developing Crises in Middle-East and France

MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome Dr. Anas Alhajji and Louis-Vincent Gave. They discuss Anas’s takeaways from the Riyadh Energy Week conferences and how the “three seas crisis” in the Gulf, Red Sea, and Black Sea, is reshaping energy security and global supply chains. We also have Louis discussing the recent developments in France. ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

October 15, 2026Episode 13481 hr 13 min

MacroVoices #554 Yasir Arafat: Mass Manufacturing Nuclear Power Plants

MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome Yasir Arafat. They discuss Aalo Atomics’ plan to mass-produce small nuclear reactors, initially for AI data centers, and the scale of the power demand the company hopes to serve. Arafat describes how factory production and repeated designs could lower costs, while identifying supply-chain growth as a major challenge. They also discuss using low-enriched uranium in the near term, the longer-term potential of fast-spectrum reactors and fuel recycling, changing U.S. policies on nuclear energy, and competition with China. https://bit.ly/3TTkNdH Find out more: https://www.aalo.com/ ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

October 8, 2026Episode 13471 hr 4 min

MacroVoices #553 Brent Johnson: Disparate Housewives

MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome Brent Johnson. They discuss the dollar’s recent strength and Johnson’s longer-term bullish outlook, while allowing for a short-term pullback. They consider gold’s support level and the possibility of further declines if the dollar rises, alongside Johnson’s view that the current area could be a buying opportunity. Johnson also outlines his thesis that the Fed and Treasury may work more closely together, including the theoretical possibility of revaluing U.S. gold holdings. https://bit.ly/3Wg8EjB ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

October 1, 2026Episode 13461 hr 6 min

MacroVoices #552 David Rosenberg: Navigating The Noise

MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome David Rosenberg. They discuss David Rosenberg’s view that energy shocks are unlikely to drive sustained inflation without wage growth, along with the Fed regime shift and higher real yields, potential midterm gridlock and Treasury issuance as bond-market catalysts, Chinese open-source AI and housing weakness as disinflationary forces, the gold outlook, and the ROSY ETF and book news. ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

September 25, 2026Episode 13451 hr 1 min

MacroVoices #551 Michael Every: Decoding The Global Geopolitical Puzzle (Part 2)

They discuss how Iran's threats to extend its strikes into the Indian Ocean and a possible 90-day U.S. diesel export ban could deepen the energy crisis, why Washington is rallying allies like Canada and Latin America into a U.S.-led bloc against a China–Russia–Iran–North Korea axis, and how fears of a 2027 Taiwan move, AI supremacy, and tactical nuclear escalation are reshaping markets, capital flows, and national security. ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

September 24, 2026Episode 13441 hr 11 min

MacroVoices #551 Michael Every: Decoding The Global Geopolitical Puzzle

MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome Michael Every. They discuss how escalating Iran–Middle East and Russia–Ukraine conflicts are weaponizing energy markets, why a looming global diesel crunch could fracture the “one-world” oil system into U.S.-led regional blocs, and how Washington may increasingly use tools like export bans, Arctic basing rights, and even dollar stablecoins as instruments of geopolitical statecraft against China and other rivals. https://bit.ly/4iRZKlX ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

September 17, 2026Episode 13431 hr 7 min

MacroVoices #550 Harley Bassman: In FED We Trust

MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome Harley Bassman. They discuss the Fed’s credibility crisis, the fiscal recklessness behind higher term premiums, and how mortgage convexity, ETFs, and hyperscaler borrowing are rewiring the global bond market. https://bit.ly/46wQwnB ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

September 10, 2026Episode 13421 hr 19 min

MacroVoices #549 Matt Barrie: AI-gent Provocateur

MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome, Matt Barrie. They discuss the rise of agentic AI and cheap open‑source models, how running AI on your own hardware will reshape enterprises and how this shift will massively disrupt white‑collar work. ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

September 3, 2026Episode 134149 min

MacroVoices #548 Dr. Carly Anderson: Emerging Energy Technologies Roundup

MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome, Carly Anderson. They discuss the coming “nuclear renaissance” driven by small modular reactors and mass manufacturing and how deep‑tech venture investing and industrial robotics can accelerate this energy transition. https://bit.ly/3Up1SaC Website: https://timescale.vc Substack: https://timescalevc.substack.com/ (coming soon) ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

August 27, 2026Episode 134041 min

MacroVoices #547 Daniel Lacalle: The Future of Reserve Currency

MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome, Daniel Lacalle. They discuss sovereign debt, inflation, and the rise of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins forcing a shift toward more decentralised monetary systems. ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://secure.bigpicturetrading.com/membership/signup/fOY4YJYX 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/

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