James Grant Quotes (22 Quotes)

As far as I know, it was one of those things that was just sudden today.

They've done a really good job to get this attitude at the club,

Miss America Behind the Crown.

He's going to conduct practice until Mike returns, which we hope is tomorrow morning.

Most people thought they'd get beaten by St George and beaten by the Broncos.

What the MOVE index measures is the level of complacency or confidence in the interest rate world. The market chooses not to see much risk in anything.

As much anxiety as we might extend over the victims of a rising funds rate, we ought to also spare a thought for the consequences of rates having been here in the first place,

As an arithmetic proposition in many mutual funds, chances are that by the time the great performance has been registered, you, the public investor, are only entering. You're coming in for the last of it.

The secretary told me the kids came in, they were frantic, ... We have a policy you don't come in here with your cleats on. The kids knew that. It didn't matter. I think they were concerned. Three of the varsity kids came down to the hospital and checked on him after practice.

The essential Greenspan legacy . . . is the idea that the Fed will allow nothing to go really wrong.

It seems to me the least-esteemed asset in existence is cash, short-dated treasuries, and I think that is the asset that is going to surprisingly outperform in the years ahead.

I have to believe that, more than ever before, some importantly large number of Americans are exposed to short-term interest rates through the mortgage market, ... and an important, dramatic rise in those rates would choke off consumption.

They cannot appreciate the full magnitude of their actions. Any time you have a person's mental capabilities that are questioned, it's going to affect how the case is handled.

The prudent law of investment is you're never supposed to make a complete decision, no or yes. It's always a marginal one,

I just do my job. It's a dirty job but I don't care if I get recognition or not.

People called him clairvoyant, and he never said, 'Shucks, it's not me, it's the cycle -- I am a federal employee. I don't see around corners, and I never have. Don't put too much stock in this bureaucracy called the Fed,'

He was a very poor central bank chairman. He was passive in the face of what will go down as a very destructive bubble.

Artificially low interest rates change people's speculative behavior in ways we may all come to regret, ... It's already incited a great burst of speculation in the bond market.

What few were thinking about in the summer of 1998 was a Russian debt default.

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

Japan is the perfect living laboratory for the proposition that massive fiscal stimulus is not necessarily going to cause interest rates to rise.

He was sitting up in bed. They were doing tests. They weren't allowing him to walk around.