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 320 was recorded on April 21st, 2022. I'm Eric Townsend.

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Simplify asset management's Mike Green returns as this week's feature interview guest,

Mike is coming out of the proverbial closet as the first Macro Voices guest to tell me

privately off the air more than a year ago that World War III had begun a year before that.

A statement Dr. Pippa Mellmgren recently echoed in her Macro Voices interview. Mike will

explain why he made those statements, what he sees on the horizon and what it means for

investors and markets. Then be sure to stay tuned for our post-game segment when Patrick's

chart deck will be titled Sector Rotation.

And I'm Patrick Sarrezna Eric, the S&P 500 for the last two weeks has been more or less

consolidating after a really explosive rally through the latter part of March. Do you

think that there's enough gas in the tank for more upside from here or what's your take

on the markets?

Well, I don't really have any strong conviction about direction of equity markets because

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