This is MacroVoices, the free weekly financial podcast targeting professional finance, high

net worth individuals, family offices, and other sophisticated investors. MacroVoices

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 Ceresna. MacroVoices episode 394 was produced on September 21st, 2023. I'm Eric Townsend.

Gav Calco, founder, Louis Vincent Gav returns as this week's feature interview guest.

Louis and I will discuss the economic situation in China, inflation, energy prices, and much more.

My new docu-series Energy Transition Crisis has been well received thus far, and you can watch it

for free at energytransitioncrisis.com. A few of you even subscribed to the Energy Transition Crisis

YouTube channel, and boy, I'd sure appreciate it if more of you would do that because it's going

to be the one thing that makes a huge difference in terms of getting the word out about this new

docu-series. A few of you have asked if you can help in other ways, and the answer is I would love

any help that listeners can provide in promoting this series on social media, especially by viewers

whose social media reach includes Generation Z and Millennials. So if you want to help,

please post links to the trailer or to your favorite episode all over social media.

And I'm Patrick Ceresna with the Macros scoreboard week over week as of the close of Wednesday,

September 20th, 2023. The S&P 500 December futures were down 155 basis points closing at

44.47. Some pretty decisive settling in the post-FOMC period will take a closer look at that chart

and the key technical levels to watch in the post-game segment. The US dollar index up 66 basis points

to 1544. This is continuing to trade along its 2023 highs that November crude oil contract

up 129 basis points to 8966. We'll look at that chart in the post-game and Eric will have the EIA

inventory data. The December gold contract up 176 basis points at 1967, but it's a deceptive

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