Summer Vacation episode
Grant’s Current Yield Podcast
Grant's Financial Publishing, INc.
4.6 • 693 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The usual suspects hold forth on a variety of financial topics, while Jim shares some of his favorite current books.
0:55 What’s happening this fall
2:25 #Gold has no friends
5:50 Yield curve: Predictions, theory and history
7:12 Beach reading, Jim Grant style
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Grant's Interest Rate Observer of the Air. I'm Jim Grant, and welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | With me as usual, Eric Whitehead at the Dials, son Phil Grant, the author and editor of Almost Daily Grants, |
| 0:15.4 | and the great Evan Lorenz, the deputy editor of Grant's role. Sitting around this conference table |
| 0:20.2 | on a swell conference |
| 0:21.2 | table. This is our final podcast before vacation. Three of us around this table are going away. Eric, as |
| 0:27.5 | you know, has had a fair amount of vacation already. And he, anyway, is saving his time. I think I'm |
| 0:32.5 | correcting this there. Pyongyang in in February, right? Yeah, that would be for the days in with the swimming pool. Of course, it's an outdoor pool. |
| 0:39.0 | Right. No water, but it's a sight. It's the best thing in the city of Pyongyang. |
| 0:44.0 | So Eric will be here in case you have any questions about what we're up to or why we're up to it. |
| 0:48.5 | He can be here. Answer the phones. Answer the phones. Okay. Well, today we have a lot to talk about, and we're going to talk about |
| 0:56.1 | among other things. We are sponsored by the Fall Grants Interest Rate Observer Conference to be held |
| 1:02.6 | Plaza Hotel on October 9th. And this is a kind of a sentimental event for us, because it's our |
| 1:08.3 | 35th anniversary celebration event. I think it's not so much a festival, |
| 1:13.0 | Evan, it's a conference. It's a damn festival, is what it is. And we have on hand Stan Drucken Miller, |
| 1:20.1 | and we have Jim Bianco and Ed Chancellor, Anthony Deaton, who's coming from Switzerland, Francine McKenna, |
| 1:26.5 | Craig Moffat, Jace Trennert, and who else I mentioned, |
| 1:30.3 | Bill Ackman. Okay, you're wondering, with all of the star power, what might we be considering? |
| 1:36.5 | Well, some topics might be a requiem for the new normal. By the way, didn't you hate that phrase, |
| 1:41.6 | New Normal? Yeah, it's over. Let's see the next 35 years, |
| 1:45.3 | a sneak preview. Now, that's my topic. I will present, having watched 35 years rolled by, |
| 1:50.7 | I will present to you in some detail the next 35 years. Bargans in your future, the ACMENT agenda. |
| 1:57.5 | John Law, who died 200 years ago, lives. Corrupted accounting, that's Francine |
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