MacroVoices #519 Alex Gurevich: The Next Perfect Trade
Alex Gurevich discusses fixed income markets, predicting eventual yield curve steepening and long-end rallies despite current stickiness. He argues AI will create an energy crisis that becomes civilization's primary bottleneck, while also analyzing Japan's potential inflection point with rising yields and weak yen.
Summary
In this MacroVoices episode, hedge fund manager Alex Gurevich provides his outlook across multiple asset classes. On fixed income, he argues the current pattern of falling short-term rates with sticky long-end yields is normal for easing cycles, predicting eventual dramatic long-end rallies followed by sell-offs, similar to patterns seen in 2003, 2016, and 2020. He dismisses concerns about Fed policy differences, arguing any Fed will ultimately follow economic data regardless of political pressure. Regarding AI's economic impact, Gurevich believes it will eliminate entire categories of economic activities unlike past technologies, creating massive energy demand that will outpace any supply solutions including fusion. He sees this as creating a fundamental energy bottleneck for civilization. On energy investing, he suggests natural gas-fired power plants may serve as crucial interim solutions while nuclear plants take years to build, with gas turbine production becoming a potential bottleneck. For precious metals, he views the recent correction as expected given silver's run to levels exceeding his price targets, noting different metals are in different cycle phases with platinum still early. On Japan, Gurevich identifies a potential inflection point where high yields and weak currency could attract capital flows and strengthen the yen, comparing it to favorable setups from his previous trading experience. He promotes his new book 'The Next Perfect Trade' which revisits his 2015 strategies with decade-later analysis of successes and failures.
About this episode
MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome, Alex Gurevich. They’ll discuss, fixed income, energy, precious metals, the Japanese Yen, and Alex’s new book just released on Amazon. https://bit.ly/4tzXAdi Buy Alex's new book 'The Next Perfect Trade' available on Amazon 🔻Download Big Picture Trading Chartbook 📈📉: https://bit.ly/3OgmkY0 ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://bit.ly/4d1fcag 🔴 Subscribe to Patrick’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Patrick_Ceresna 🔴 Subscribe to Erik's Substack: https://eriktownsend.substack.com/
Key Insights
- Gurevich argues current fixed income behavior with sticky long-end yields during Fed easing cycles is historically normal, not anomalous
- He believes the difference between hawkish and dovish Fed policy amounts to at most 50 basis points over a couple years because data ultimately drives policy
- Gurevich predicts AI will eliminate entire categories of economic activities unlike past technologies that merely changed job market structure
- He argues energy demand from AI computation will grow faster than any supply solutions including fusion, making energy civilization's primary bottleneck
- Gurevich suggests natural gas-fired power plants will serve as crucial interim energy solutions while nuclear plants take years to build
- He identifies gas turbine production as a potential major bottleneck with six-year lead times for ordering these critical components
- Gurevich views the recent precious metals correction as expected given silver exceeded his price targets, reaching levels he hadn't penciled in
- He argues different precious metals are in different cycle phases, with gold potentially completing its run while platinum remains early in its cycle
- Gurevich identifies Japan as potentially reaching an inflection point where high yields and weak currency could attract capital flows
- He draws parallels between current Japan setup and successful 2014 dollar trade when currency was weak but fundamentals were improving
- Gurevich emphasizes AI development has become a military arms race similar to the space race, making it unstoppable regardless of energy costs
- He acknowledges his uranium positions required white flag surrender on oil trades when deferred contracts entered downtrends despite fundamental thesis
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Transcript
This is Macro Voices, the free weekly financial podcast targeting professional finance, high net worth individuals, family offices, and other sophisticated investors. Macro Voices 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. Macro Voices episode 519 was produced on February 12th, 2026. I'm Eric Townsend and Macro Voices is now 10 years old. I'd like to thank our loyal listeners for your support during our first decade of Macro Voices. I've met some amazing people as a result of producing this podcast every week, and we're working behind the scenes to make the show…
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