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James Grant

Financial Guru & Media Pundit on Financial Markets; Founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer

James Grant
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James Grant Biography

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 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. Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian, a biography of the muse of modern central banking, was published in July 2019.

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 Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs and The Claremont Review of Books. 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, began his career in journalism in 1972, at the Baltimore Sun, and joined the staff of Barron’s in 1975. He is a trustee of the New York Historical Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He and his wife, Patricia Kavanagh M.D., live in Brooklyn. They are the parents of four grown children and grandparents many times over.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/03/2024.

James Grant Videos

  • 2021 Virtual Value Investing Conference | Keynote Speaker: James ...
    2021 Virtual Value Investing Conference | Keynote Speaker: James ...
    April 14, 2021: James Grant, Financial Journalist and Historian, Founder and Editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, was a Keynote Speaker ...
  • James Grant, Founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer
    James Grant, Founder of "Grant’s Interest Rate Observer"
    In this episode of Talks at GS, James Grant discusses his perspectives on the forces shaping financial markets, and why the insights of Walter...
  • James Grant: The Forgotten Depression of 1921
    James Grant: "The Forgotten Depression of 1921"
    The Forgotten Depression tells of the slump of 1920-21: high unemployment, collapse in commodity prices, upsurge in bankruptcies and sharp break in...
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