James Grant founded Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets, in 1983.
He is the author of five books on finance and financial history: Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend (Simon & Schuster, 1983), Money of the Mind (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992), Minding Mr. Market (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993) and The Trouble with Prosperity (Times Books, 1996), and Mr. Market Miscalculates (Axios Press, 2008). John Adams: Party of One, a biography of the second president of the United States was published in March 2005 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
His latest book, “Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster,” will be published in May by Simon & Schuster.
Mr. Grant’s television appearances include “60 Minutes,” “The Charley Rose Show,” “CBS Evening News,” and a 10-year stint on Wall Street Week. His journalism has appeared in a variety of periodicals, including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Affairs, and he contributed an essay to the Sixth Edition of Graham and Dodd's Security Analysis (McGraw-Hill, 2009).
Mr. Grant, a former Navy gunner's mate, is a Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of Indiana University. He earned a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University and began his career in journalism in 1972, at the Baltimore Sun. He joined the staff of Barron’s in 1975 where he originated the Current Yield column. He and his wife, Patricia Kavanagh M.D., live in Brooklyn. They are the parents of four grown children.
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July 8 - "The golden rule of fiscal discipline", The Washington Post
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July 8 - "The golden rule of fiscal discipline", The Washington Post
2010
April 23 — "The best financial reform? Let the bankers fail"; The Washington Post
2009
Dec. 5 — "Requiem for the Dollar"; The Wall Street Journal
October 30 — Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack
June 10 — CNBC Squawk Box
June 5 — Bloomberg Surveillance
May 21 — Bloomberg Radio with Pimm Fox
April 15 — Kudlow and Company
March 1 — "If You Have to Ask..." The New York Times
February 25 — Bloomberg Radio with Pimm Fox
2008
December 20 — "Is the Medicine Worse Than the Illness?" The Wall Street Journal
December 5 — "Little logic to bond world amid current risk phobias," Financial Times
November/December — "After the Crash," Foreign Affairs"
October 5 — "Bad Medicine," The Washington Post
September 24 — "The Buck Stopped Then," The New York Times
September 19 — Bloomberg TV with Pimm Fox
March 25 — Bloomberg TV with Pimm Fox
March 16 — "A Bear Stearns market," The Washington Post
February 25 — "Valedictory; It is far better to buy a cheap stock than an airy, and very likely errant, prediction," Forbes
January 27 — "60 Minutes"
January 27 — "Paying the price for the Fed's Success," The New York Times
January 4 — Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack
January 3 — Bloomberg TV
