Mirza Baig is a macro strategist at Macrohive, previously having worked on various FICC trading and strategy desks at Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley, and Point 72.
Here he discusses the China economy, various issues associated with China and other emerging markets as well as his best advice on how to get better at macro!
Arjun Murti is a partner at Veriten and has spent over 30 years on Wall Street as a sell-side equity research analyst, buy-side investor, advisor and board member covering the global energy sector. Since November 2021, Arjun has published Super-Spiked, a Substack newsletter and podcast about the energy transition. He spent 15 years of his career at Goldman Sachs. He retired from Goldman Sachs in 2014, after serving as Co-Director of Americas Equity Research in addition to his responsibilities as an equity research analyst. Prior to joining Goldman in 1999, Arjun was a buy-side Equity Research Analyst at J.P. Morgan Investment Management. He currently serves as a Director on the Board of ConocoPhillips, a Senior Advisor to the Energy Group at Warburg Pincus and an Advisory Board member for Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, ClearPath, and the India Advisory Board at The Nature Conservancy.
Here he discusses the energy transition, his super-vol vs supercycle framework and where he sees opportunities today!
Alf joins us again for another round of macro - and he shares what it takes to build a trading process, his thoughts on where opportuntieis lie, where we may be in the economic cycle and the risks associated with the hiking cycle.
Chase is founder of Pinecone Macro. Here he discusses his views on the banking crisis, why the Fed is making a policy mistake and should've stopped hiking 200bps ago, his favourite currency trades in a recession event and more!
Jeff Snider is the founder of Eurodollar University, a monetary economics education platform and one of the foremost experts on the global dollar system. Here he discusses what really happened behind the banking crisis, what liquidity looks like, QE vs QT, where we go from here and more!
Alfonso "Alf" Peccatiello is the founder and CEO of the Macro Compass, and the ex-head of a $20B bond portfolio. Alf joins me to discuss - is the economy as strong as it seems, whether the labor market is weakening, what's going on in Europe, the Chinese reopening story and more!
Michael Green is Portfolio Manager and Chief Strategist at Simplify Asset Management. Here Mike discusses his views on labor markets, transitory inflation, 0DTE options and their impact on market microstructure as well as recent political events wrt China and how much they matter.
Adam Rodman is the founder and CIO of Segra Capital, a hedge fund presently focused on the nuclear energy industry and uranium. In this episode, we discuss the differences between the present cycle and the one in 2006, how off-balance sheet "carry trades" matter to the uranium market, as well as how Adam uses option markets and shorting to his advantage to manage through the volatility investing in uranium ensues, and more!
Mike Ashton is founder and principal at Enduring Investments, and is known as the inflation guy. We have a wide ranging conversation surrounding demographics, causes of inflation, monetary economics and how money printing works as well as how to build a portfolio that hedges inflation risk.
Eric Basmajian is the founder of EPB Research and is very well-known for his work surrounding economic cycles and leading economic indicators. Here he discusses his favorite economic indicators, how he approaches them using a basket/index approach, and then we discuss what's next for the housing and labor markets!
Michael Howell is the founder of Crossborder Capital and has been tracking liquidity flows for decades now. Crossborder is well known for their research into liquidity and harnessing it as part of the investment approach. Here he discusses:
When do banks lend?
Does the Fed "print" money?
How does the Fed's liquidity additions make their way to the market?
And much much more!
You can also purchase his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Wars-Rise-Global-Liquidity-ebook/dp/B086BBF1H9
Alex is the founder and CIO of HonTe Investments, and he returns to Market Champions to give an update on how he's thinking about where the world is headed, why he thinks we have a >50% probability of seeing negative rates by 2024, ways he's thinking of playing it, insights into his risk management process and more!
I had the opportunity to interview the legendary short seller Jim Chanos. Jim is the founder and president of Kynikos Associates and is very well known for shorting Enron, Wirecard, Luckin Coffee among others. In this conversation we touch up on some of the major issues today - the FTX collapse and what it means for the crypto world, the Uber and Lyft story and why they, among other "gig economy" companies, remain unprofitable. We also talk about the fate of the various Cathie Wood names, and much more in this wide-ranging conversation!
John Ciampaglia serves as Chief Executive Officer of Sprott Asset Management and as Senior Managing Director of Sprott Inc. Here we discuss the various dynamics in nuclear energy, uranium markets, where he sees the market heading, as well as a discussion on gold, oil, and more!
Michael Kao is the founder of Akanthos Capital. Here he joins me to give an overview of what is going on in oil and then we jump into a deep discussion on the US Dollar, geopolitics, China and much more!
Julie Cane is the CEO and Managing Partner at Democracy Investments and has a 20-year long finance career that spawned after leaving the navy. Her firm, Democracy Investments is focused around investing by overweighting democracies and underweighting authoritarian regimes.
Rick Rikoski is the Chief Economist at Democracy Investments, who started in finance after getting a PhD from MIT in Marine Robotics. Here we discuss a lot of the important geopolitical, social and cultural events shaping the economic landscape and how Democracy Investments is looking to take stock of those changes.
Jim Bianco is the founder and President at Bianco Research - based in Chicago, IL. Here, he discusses the various changes he sees in the economy, labor vs capital, and his thesis for how a 4% inflation world looks like. He also shares his views on central banking as well as how they've overstepped their actual function.