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

barred. Now here are your hosts, Eric Townsend and Patrick Sarrezna.

Macro Voices Episode 256 was recorded on July 28, 2021. I'm Eric Townsend. This episode

is brought to you by Abbex Technologies pioneering the design of smarter markets that better

meet the needs of both market participants and society as a whole. And by Abra Plata

Resource Corporation, a premier emerging silver and gold exploration company, ticker ABRA

on the T.S.X Venture Exchange and ABBRF in the United States. It was one year ago today

that I began aggressively shorting crude oil futures and buying puts on crude oil futures

after it had become clear that a global pandemic was likely. Two days later on January

30, 2020, we dropped everything to rearrange our production schedule to bring you an interview

with Dr. Chris Martensen. Lying out a symptomatic transmission are not the measure of transmissibility

of a pandemic virus and the reasons why Dr. Martensen predicted that early efforts to

contain the spread of the virus using airport thermometer checks would be ineffective.

We were then ridiculed and harassed for several weeks by listeners accusing us of being

conspiracy theorists and irresponsible fear mongers. Meanwhile, those of our listeners

who were not overcome by normalcy bias and their own fears and insecurities made a killing

trading the clearest and most egregious mispricing of market risk in our lifetimes, which

persisted for well over a month after it was crystal clear to anyone actually paying

attention that a global pandemic was imminent. One year later, the world is a changed place.

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