1.Grant’s Interest Rate Observer came into the world in 1983 to help its readers to buy low and sell high, or the other way around. We are seekers after investment value, poppers of bubbles and students of unintended consequences.
Netflix is rallying hard on the idea that hundreds of millions of Chinese stuck at home means they will open new accounts and stream movies for the next several days.
What the Grant's team is reading.
1. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All, Mary Childs
2. Trillions, Robin Wigglesworth
3. The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King
4. Shorting the Grid, Meredith Angwin
5. The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson
Jim Grant responds to the zero percent chance of a rate hike in 2023 implied by the futures market, "I would assign zero percent to a very, very small group of possible outcomes in the world of finance— zero percent that Congress will ever balance the budget, maybe."
Seth A. Klarman, CEO of the Baupost Group, joins Jim Grant and Evan Lorenz on our podcast, Grant's Current Yield, to discuss the ways the world has changed since the publication of Security Analysis, and how it hasn't. chtbl.com/track/8G858/tr…