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James Grant

James Grant is an American writer and publisher. He founded Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets published since 1983. He has also written several books on finance and history. Grant served as a Navy Gunner’s mate, graduated from Indiana University, and received a master’s degree in International relations from Columbia University.

Grant is the author of Money of the Mind (1992), The Trouble with Prosperity (1996), John Adams: Party of One (2005), Mr. Speaker: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster (2011), and The Forgotten Depression (2014) among other works. His most recent publication is Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian (2019), a biography of Walter Bagehot.

Articles

What Henry Hazlitt Can Teach Us About Inflation in 2014

06/09/2014 Mises Daily James Grant

In 1946, as now, the government held up the threat of deflation to justify a policy of ultra-low interest rates.

What Henry Hazlitt Can Teach Us About Inflation in 2014

09/07/2014 Free Market James Grant

The Free Market 32, no. 5 (2014) This article is adapted from a portion of the Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, delivered by James Grant at the Mises Institute’s 2014 Austrian Economics Research...

Bring Back the Bank Run

02/01/1990 Free Market James Grant

The banking dilemma seems eternal, like the monetary dilemma, the tax dilemma, and the marital dilemma. The essence of the banking dilemma, however, is that the depositors' money is not in the vault awaiting the depositors' decision to withdraw it. Instead it is out on loan or invested in the money market or in mortgage-backed securities.

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Media

America’s Experiment in Zero-Gravity Finance

10/12/2022 James Grant

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 6th, 2022.

James Grant: The United States of Insolvency

04/29/2016 James Grant Jeff Deist

When did fiscal and monetary sanity become a radical position in America? Jeff Deist interviews Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer.

James Grant: The Forgotten Depression

05/22/2015 James Grant Jeff Deist

James Grant discusses his new book, The Forgotten Depression.

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