Erik and team produce excellent programs on markets, finance and economics.

Following the show for years, great interviews and opinions from the hosts. Thanks to the team pulling this show. Best regards.

This new two-for-one’s are excellent. Both long-term and timely interviews have made this podcast even better. Bravo.

guest on the show says it’s deep state that is continuing the Iran war. Everything that he said is wrong and turned out to be wrong. Shows the show is stupid and clueless

Changing my review after listening to the show for years. As other reviewers mentioned, the quality here used to be better. But I think I’m done with it now. The precious metals coverage content was one of the main things I wanted to hear. After one of the largest moves in silver pricing ever, we got an extremely in-depth conversation of gold yet zero comments on the silver market over the past week? Come on.

A very successful businessman once told me; If you want to be successful in any business, leave the politics at home. Refuse to stake all campaign and political yard signs.. unless you WANT to scare off 50% of potential customers. I tried listening to the pod, but I avoid tribalism like the plague. I’m sure you guys probably have some decent content, but I cannot take somebody seriously when their ideas come from the same brain that chooses a life of hate.

No words.

Really frustrating that they are involved with the known Russian propaganda and conspiracy theory site, ZeroHedge. Everything they say should be taken with a grain of salt

Think I got the gist of this one. Talk about conspiracies and revolution every day so one day you will be right. Fear sells. Really strange analysis on this podcast.

Quality and content have gradually declined over time but I still have hope that Eric will return this show to its former glory, just not yet.

One of the better podcasts about the macro environment/- s serious host interviewing serious people — great resource .

Good or not as good depending on the guest

OMG! After my bad review, they blocked me!😂😂😂 Why so little content about equity market? Then you should change the name to commodity trading podcast! Or just oil trading show!

Brent johnson says nothing but cliches and people get so excited: brent says he can buy starbucks in guam with usd. Wow. Oh brent said his uber drivers likes usd tips best... oh brent. Real thoughtful Brent says cliches: the world changing "i think"

Really great podcast with great guests and awesome information

…and just keeps getting better.

I used to love listening to this show every week, but I got tired of Erik Townsend pushing a larger war with either the US or China…. End of the world, runaway inflation etc. etc each and every week. I stopped listening, but this was the first episode I’ve listened to in a year, and guess what hasn’t changed? His perspective.

As someone that has never rated any podcast below 5 stars I can’t stand the host and his constant pandering of his ignorant, biased opinions. I don’t know a single person that suffers through the whole podcast anymore. We all tune in for the guests, which happen to be the only redeeming part of this podcast. Stop shoving your political and market ignorance down our throats when great minds are talking. You’ve been consistently wrong on everything you spew for over a year with no hint of showing that you can pivot or actually be open minded. Do everyone a favor and just cut the podcast down to the guest segments already.

Great show

Some great interviews.. but the host is so arrogant and biased it hurts to listen.. constantly pushing his views as 100% truths.. even when guest after guest present data/facts disproving his narrative. Thank god for fast forward!

Please consider having David Webb on as a guest. He is the author of the book, The Great Taking.

I’m just an everyday, blue collar guy trying to learn about macro and the markets, and your show is helping with that. Thanks

Hello, Great work, just instead of bringing rookies that they themselves don’t know what’s going on economically ( market) speaking, please bring someone like Felix Zulauf from Switzerland that at least have enough knowledge to share. Thank you RN

This show has become biased and non professional, driving a certain political agenda

Here we goin creating problems and offering solutions again.

Hard to find quality commodity and energy discussion podcasts. This show has great guests and thoughtful discussions

I listened to this show for six months as a contrarian viewpoint, but have recently stopped as they have been plugging cryptocurrencies and oil investing. Eventually a contrarian show has to prove out at least one useful investment, but this one has none and is starting to get more into Trump conspiracies and right wing propganda as people are starting to call out their money losing advice.

As usual, you had another fantastic guest and Pippa presented a very compelling and cogent geopolitical analysis. She truly understands the strategic underpinnings of Chinese leadership involvement and intent using Russia as a proxy. Thank you for finding these experts and giving them the time to present their research. Another great episode #384 Incredible interview with Darius Dale and his highly structured analysis on the current macroeconomic landscape. Thank you

Must listen every episode, excellent interviews week in and week out

The combination of excellent guests and host commentary makes this a must-listen podcast.

She shouldn’t be invited onto this show anymore as she’s just another D.C. area grifter making her income on daddy’s last name who himself was a grifter. So many of them in D.C. I guess she’s taken her act to London now.

Thank you for having a open and honest conversation

Examining the past, present and FUTURE of energy, globally. Knowledgeable quests with the latest thought process on the trends and technologies. One missing area of the coverage is new Grid architectures leveraging new technologies to calibrate multi-sourced capture to storage and redistribution models…not to mention fault tolerant energy operational centers!!! Well done 👍🙏

I’ve been listening for a few months and have absolutely loved the quality of guests this podcasts interviews from a wide range of industries. All of it helps me see the economy and markets with a much better view and understanding.

the show format and presentation is good but I question Erik’s understanding of certain topics. The move to write a book on cryptocurrency with no domain expertise is a head scratcher. If the host is really so good at managing his money then why sell a book?

Been regular listener for years. Good guests. Townsend is annoying. Was able to ignore him going on about central bank digital currency constantly. But this year his complaints about American government and energy policy have made the show too political. Yes we have our problems, but I am thankful to live here rather than have to figure out how to escape an authoritarian regime.

I used to love MV but it’s increasingly gone off the deep end in 2022. Townsend knows about oil, but that’s where the useful part ends and the kookiness begins… Countless examples…he had to be told to stop talking about World War III earlier in the year; his obvious delight when the Anas Alhajji interview echoed his similarly off-piste views on energy doom and gloom and western economies getting screwed. He claims to not root for that stuff but his giddiness said it all…It’s pretty clear he holds fringe / borderline conspiracy theorist views. So even though I’m with him on the fundamentals / lack of capex / Eucalyptus paradox, professionals should go elsewhere for serious adult views. Worth listening to when they get Jim Bianco and a few other guests but it’s in spite of Townsend, not because of…hope they get the memo because the show used to be great.

Simply put - the best podcast on investing / economy out there today.

Discovered the podcast a few months ago and have listened to every episode since. Highly insightful content with intelligent guests.

Once in a while had some interesting guests but seems like especially lately, just a parade of perma bears. Patrick does a decent chart review but I would not rate this as one of my top financial podcast.

Gentlemen, thank you for producing the best macro-podcast around!

Long discussion with guest with download is good source of info and thinking on a specific area. Market wrap up with downloads is a very efficient overview of market segments. It should be acknowledged that all the people on the show have spoken clearly and that the audio is very professional.

This has quickly become one of my favorite podcasts. The team hosting the podcast and their guests are great.

The guests continue to be excellent - Townsend, however, is descending into the ghetto of seething, slogans, epithets, and cliches that characterize today’s American middle-aged man. He tosses around “Biden” in this very predictable, unoriginal, eye-rolling contempt a la Fox News to appeal to what he presumes is his constituency of like-minded man-cave denizens. Sorry, some of us are still rich and still voting for Biden regardless of your middle-school popularity tactics. All this distraction is diminishing the actionable information available from this show as more and more time is given to what could be or should be on the political side.

Erik is great and gets a wide array of smart guests. I never feel like I’m in an echo chamber, which is SUPER important. I have learned a TON on this show since I started listening in the pandemic. I never miss an episode.

Hosts are fairly unsophisticated thinkers but they generally source interesting, thoughtful and seasoned pros.

Incredibly valuable free market information, straight from the professionals. No stonks diamond hands talk to be found here!

I really enjoy this Macro related podcast! Look forward to listening every episode! Thanks for all your efforts!

I am not their target audience, but I have listened to Erik for years now, one of the best Macro shows around!

Wow. I have been watching these for about a year. Great guests, great interview style combined with a weekly market update. This viewer is very grateful that Erik shares such valuable content with the world.