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About James Grant

James Grant founded Grant's Interest Rate Observer in 1983 following a stint at Barron's, where he originated the "Current Yield" column.
His books include works of financial history, finance and biography. They are: “Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend” (Simon & Schuster, 1983); “Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending from the Civil War to Michael Milken” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992); “Minding Mr. Market” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993); “The Trouble with Prosperity” (Times Books, 1996); “John Adams: Party of One” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005); “Mr. Market Miscalculates” (Axios Press, 2008); and “Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster” (Simon & Schuster, 2011).
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Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
The definitive biography of one of the most brilliant and influential financial minds?banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist...
Read More >The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
By the publisher of the prestigious Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, an account of the deep economic slump of 1920–21 that proposes, with respect to federal intervention, “less is more...
Read More >Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster
“It is good to have this excellent biography of Thomas Reed, a vastly underappreciated major figure in American political history...
Read More >Mr. Market Miscalculates:The Bubble Years & Beyond
“James Grant’s Mr. Market Miscalculates may well be the most perceptive book on the current financial crisis yet published...
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View More >Ninety-one-year debasement trade
How to explain the personality change in the monetary metal whose fabled stability of purchasing power used to be its calling card?
Memo to policyholders
Life insurance and the looming risks to unsuspecting annuitants and policyholders...
Ounce of prevention
Au revoir to a French insurer and Grant’s pick-to-click.
Pause the panic
For the income-seeking and value-minded, a BDC outlier and Grant’s favorite priced for a severe recession...
Inflation's got legs
For a market underpricing inflation over the long run, TIPS and their gilt-edged cousins offer protection and profit...
Top of the mark?
Liquidity continues to evaporate as bull-market sightings abound...
Credit Creation • Cause & Effect
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