4.6 • 693 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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With special guest Seth A. Klarman, CEO of the Baupost Group.
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0:00.0 | Well, this is current yield, Grant's interest rate observer of the air. |
0:10.8 | And I am Jim Grant. |
0:11.8 | With me, as always, is the great deputy editor of grants, Evan Lorenz. |
0:17.0 | And Henry French is at his post at the control panel. |
0:21.2 | And Evan, these are flush times in the field of interest rate observation. |
0:25.6 | I see the 10-year treasury notice above 4% this morning. |
0:29.6 | I like that. |
0:31.6 | I mean, these are full-bodied substantial interest rates. |
0:35.1 | I hated the ones you could scarcely see. Ten years. The ones where you |
0:39.3 | need the magnifying glass when we had over $10 trillion worth of debt trading at negative yields? |
0:43.3 | Yes, those. And I feel a little bit nostalgic because I might have mentioned one or two |
0:48.7 | broadcasts ago. I by the very first job on Waltry was in the year, 1967. I just got out of the Navy, had to resume |
0:55.9 | college, and I was a clerk on the bond desk at McDonnell and Company on the long-dated benchmark |
1:02.2 | issue with a four and a quarters of 92. I have 25 more basis points. I'm going to go out and have |
1:07.4 | myself some sort of nostalgic class of something or other. |
1:11.6 | I guess we're getting there. |
1:13.6 | With us today, ladies and gentlemen, is Seth A. Clarman, |
1:16.6 | Seth A. Clarman, needing no introduction, he shall get none except to say that he is a natural 400 hitter in the field of buy, low, cell high. |
1:26.6 | I would say the existence of Claremont Hall |
1:29.1 | at Harvard Business School is itself a refutation of the strong form of the efficient market's |
1:34.8 | hypothesis. So that's as far as the introduction will go. He's also the president and a founder |
1:40.7 | of the Bhopost Group. So, Seth, welcome. Jim, it's great to be with you. We go back a long |
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