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 500 was produced on October 2, 2025.

I'm Eric Townsend.

Macrovoices, all-time listener-favorite guest, Lynn Alden, rocks the house this week

in the grand finale of our five-episode, all-time listener favorites countdown.

Lynn picks up where Luke Roman left off last week, sharing her views

on what it would actually take to stop this train. And the train isn't a metaphor just for the

current stock market rally. She's talking about the current incarnation of the dollar-centric

global monetary system. She chose that topic for this interview before she was even aware of

Luke Groman's interview last week. The fact that our two top ever guests both chose a rather

dire prognostication for the global financial system without even being aware of the other

person's intentions to really give a very

similar topic interview, really spoke to me as yet another signal that we're moving from

slowly at first to then suddenly. Then stay tuned for our postgame trade of the week when Patrick

will lay out how gold investors can hedge correction risk without giving

up potential gains if this gold bull market stretches even farther from here. And be sure to

tune in next week for episode 501 when the single episode download count winner. Yep, there is

somebody who's got more downloads even than Lynn Alden,

but only in one episode. Lynn did it consistently across several episodes. That's the reason

that she's our big winner this week, but we had to give a runner up to someone else. See if you

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