This is Macro Voices, 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 Suresna. Macrovoices episode 495 was produced on August 28th, 2025.

I'm Eric Townsend.

It's the dog days of summer, so this will be our annual holiday episode.

International Playboy Patrick Suresna is off summering in the mid, so there won't be any postgame chart deck this week.

We've got a terrific feature interview with Louis Vincent Gav lined up

for you instead. This one was pre-recorded several weeks ago, so we won't have any perspective

on current market events in the feature interview. But trust me, you're not going to want to miss

this interview. Louis is going to give us his long-term perspective on China's role in the global economy.

Not the U.S.-centric perspective that we've been led to by Western financial media,

but a truly independent objective analysis of both China's extraordinary infrastructure superiority

goals and what they're ultimately going to mean to the balance of global

trade, and also China's very real challenges securing sufficient foreign investment capital

to fuel their amazing growth story in the face of current geopolitical developments.

Then you're really going to want to tune in next week when we're going to begin

a countdown of our top five regular macro guests, culminating in a feature interview with our all-time

listener-favorite macro personality in Macro Voices episode 500 airing October 2nd. The names of all five finalists

will be kept secret until their episode airs. But wait, there's even more. We chose the top

macro guests based on their listener download counts in aggregate for all their past macrovoices appearances.

But to our own shock and surprise, the one single most downloaded macro voices episode of

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