
James Grant
Grant's Interest Rate Observer
James Grant, financial journalist and historian, is the founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the investment markets. His new book, The Forgotten Depression, 1921: the Crash that Cured Itself, a history of America’s last governmentally unmedicated business-cycle downturn, won the 2015 Hayek Prize of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Among his other books on finance and financial history are 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, 1993), The Trouble with Prosperity (Times Books, 1996), and Mr. Market Miscalculates (Axios Press, 2008).
He is, in addition, the author of a pair of political biographies: John Adams: Party of One, a life of the second president of the United States (Farrar, Straus, 2005) and Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster (Simon & Schuster, 2011).
Mr. Grant’s television appearances include “60 Minutes,” “The Charlie 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 Affair. 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 is a trustee of the New York Historical Society. He and his wife, Patricia Kavanagh M.D., live in Brooklyn. They are the parents of four grown children.
Grant's Interest Rate Observer
Presentations:
- That was deflation Fall 2011 - October 26
- April 2015
The Great Debate Spring 2015 - April 7
Conferences:
- Fall 2019 - October 23
- Fall 2018 - October 9
- Spring 2018 - April 10
- Spring 2017 - March 15
- Fall 2016 - Oct. 4
- Spring 2016 - April 13
- Fall 2015 - Oct. 20
- Spring 2015 - April 7
- Fall 2014 - October 21
- Spring 2014 - April 8
- Fall 2013 - Oct. 22
- Spring 2013 - April 9
- Fall 2012 - October 23
- Spring 2012 - April 11
- Fall 2011 - October 26
- Spring 2011 - March 29
- Grant's London 2011 - February 24
- Fall 2010 - October 19
- Spring 2010 - March 23
- Fall 2009 - September 22
- Spring 2009 - April 7
- Fall 2008 - October 21
- Spring 2008 - April 8
- Fall 2007 - September 25
- Spring 2007 - April 24
- Fall 2006 - September 26
- Spring 2006 - March 29
- Fall 2005 - October 26
- Spring 2005 - April 13
- Fall 2004 - November 10
- Spring 2004 - April 29
- Fall 2003 - November 13
- Spring 2003 - April 30
- Fall 2002 - October 24
- Spring 2002 - April 23
- Fall 2001 - November 14
- Spring 2001 - May 2
- Fall 2000 - November 1
- Spring 2000 - May 3
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Upcoming Conferences
October 20, 2020 - New York
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Past Conference Books
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Finance and Philosophy: Why We’re Always Surprised
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