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 Sarresna.

Macro Voices Episode 354 was produced on December 15, 2022. I'm Eric Townsend.

This episode of Macro Voices was made possible by respect energy, a leading European trader

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Bianco Research Founder Jim Bianco returns as this week's feature interview guest. We'll

get Jim's take on the major events of the last 72 hours that everyone's been focused

on, the CPI data and the Federal Reserve statement and press briefing. Then we'll get

Jim's insights on news most people missed, China's announcements that they'll stop

reporting COVID case counts and effectively just let the Omicron virus burn through while

relaxing zero COVID policies. We'll also discuss Jim's outlook for fixed income, equities,

gold, and more. This will be our last regular format podcast for 2022. For the final two

weeks of the year, we'll be airing our pre-recorded 2022 year-end special. This year, the subject

will be all things nuclear energy. My guest next week will be Mark Nelson, a nuclear

engineer and pro-nuclear policy activist. Mark and I will discuss understanding all things

nuclear from both real and perceived problems with nuclear energy to understanding advancements

in nuclear energy, including the benefits of advanced nuclear reactor design such as

heavy water reactors, molten salt cooled reactors, and liquid fuel reactors.

In the following week, on December 29, my guest will be uranium insider newsletter

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