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 or bearish, no holds barred. Now, here are your hosts, Eric Townsend

and Patrick Ceresna.

MacroVoices episode 398 was produced on October 19, 2023. I'm Eric Townsend. Best-selling

author Lynn Alden returns as this week's feature interview guest. We'll talk about her new

book, Broken Money, before moving on to discuss the end of the piece dividend, energy scarcity,

and much more. I've also invited our friend Dr. Anas Alhaji to make a brief cameo appearance

in the crude oil update of our post-game segment after the feature interview with Lynn Alden.

When Anas will update us to the risks to the oil market in the event of escalation of

the Israel Gaza conflict.

And I'm Patrick Ceresna with the MacroScoreboard Week over week as of the close of Wednesday,

October 18, 2023. The S&P 500 December futures were down 152 basis points closing at 43-42.

We'll take a closer look at that chart and the key technical levels to watch in our post-game

segment. The US dollar index up 79 basis points closing to 106-56. US dollar index up 79 basis

points to 106-56. The dollar continues to trade along multi-month highs. The December

crude oil contract up 634 basis points to 87-27. We'll take a look at that chart and the

post-game and Eric will have the EIA inventory data. The December R. Bob Gasoline up 639

basis points to 233. Price is retracing some of the breakdown from September. The December

gold contract up 429 basis points to 1968. An extraordinary rebound from the September

sell-off getting the prices back towards the summer highs. Copper down 55 basis points

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