This is Macro Voices with hedge fund manager Eric Townsend, the free weekly financial

podcast targeting professional finance, high net worth individuals, family offices, and

other sophisticated investors. Macro Voices is all about the brightest minds in the world

of finance and macroeconomics telling it like it is. Bullish your bearish, no holds

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Macro Voices Episode 204 was recorded on January 30, 2020. I'm Eric Townsend. This

episode of Macro Voices is brought to you by top traders on plug.com, a podcast dedicated

to quant and rules based investing, helping investors overcome behavioral biases. Due to

the rapid evolution of the NCOV coronavirus story, we're deviating from our normal show

format this week to bring you a Macro Voices double header. My first feature interview

guest for this week is MI2 Partners Founder Julian Braggden, who will share his perspective

on this week's FOMC statement and then talk us through another of his famous chart decks.

We had Dr. Chris Martinson scheduled just for a brief post game appearance to update us

on the NCOV coronavirus story. But due to important developments in that story in recent

days, we've upgraded Dr. Martinson to a second feature interview. That's going to make

for a really long show, but I think it's going to be a very important show, so I really

encourage you to listen with interest. We're going to abbreviate the market, wrap-in,

post game segments in order to make time for both feature interviews. We'll be back to

our regular format next week. And I'm Patrick Sures and I know Eric, before

we get to the stock market, what's going on that led us to the change in the format this week?

Well Patrick, I think that the mainstream media and the vast majority of financial analysts

are badly misinterpreting the available data on the NCOV coronavirus outbreak that began

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