Hot Topic #11 Lenore Hawkins & Dr. Steve Bickel: The only way to save the economy is to reduce the COVID19 hospitalization rate
Macro Voices
Hedge Fund Manager Erik Townsend
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a special edition of Macrovoises with hedge fund manager Eric Townsend. |
| 0:14.2 | The premier financial podcast targeting professional finance, high net worth individuals, family |
| 0:19.8 | offices, and other sophisticated investors. |
| 0:23.0 | Now for this special edition of Macrovoises, here's hedge fund manager Eric Townsend. |
| 0:30.0 | Macrovoises Hot Topics episode number 11 was recorded on March 23rd, 2020. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm Eric Townsend. |
| 0:38.0 | This special episode of Macrovoises is brought to you by my own vacation rental property on the |
| 0:44.0 | coast of Maine. Tourist season is looking like a write-off at this point, so I'm looking for a tenant |
| 0:50.0 | who wants to escape from New York, so to speak, and needs a big home in the countryside to ride out |
| 0:55.9 | the COVID-19 crisis outside the city. I'll tell you all about it at the end of today's podcast. |
| 1:02.8 | Joining me today are Lenore Hawkins, global macro strategist for Tematica Research, |
| 1:08.4 | reporting from ground zero in northern Italy, and Dr. Steve Bickel, a medical doctor in |
| 1:14.5 | northeastern Florida, and a very long time Macrovoises listener and supporter. |
| 1:19.8 | I want to start with the boots on the ground updates from both of our guests. Lenore, |
| 1:24.8 | you're talking to us today from Lake Como in northern Italy. Pretty much right at the center of |
| 1:30.7 | the crisis. The situation in Italy seems to, at least from the statistics that we're seeing, |
| 1:37.5 | seems to be getting worse with over 6,500 new cases reported on Saturday, almost 800 new deaths |
| 1:44.8 | on Saturday, or even seeing headlines, you know, zero hedges reporting, Marshall Law has been |
| 1:51.3 | imposed in Italy. Please give us a first-hand report. What's going on there is Marshall Law |
| 1:57.1 | really an accurate description of what's happening, and how does what we see in the news |
| 2:01.6 | compared to what's actually happening around you on the ground there in Italy. |
| 2:05.7 | We do have Marshall Law to some degree, and by the way, for everyone who uses Twitter, be very |
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