RWH062: Bubble Warning w/ Jim Grant
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Prudent Portfolio Positioning: Bonds, Gold, and Special Situations
William asks about positioning; Jim describes owning some bonds, gold, and special-situation funds while cautioning against complacent exposures.
William Green chats with Jim Grant, famed editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. Here, Jim warns that a major market top is forming as exuberance inflates stocks, Bitcoin, and gold. He says it echoes past bubbles and urges extreme caution.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 Intro
00:10:40 Why Jim Grant is fiercely skeptical about Bitcoin.
00:19:25 Why you should be wary of all the hype about Private Equity.
00:35:50 Why Jim expects the AI boom to end in “a panic & a crash.”
00:44:13 Why even the shrewdest speculators never know when it’s time to sell.
00:49:50 What the Federal Reserve is likely to do with interest rates.
00:57:53 Why the dollar seems poised to continue losing value.
01:04:28 Why inflation will persist, fueled by perennial flaws in human nature.
01:09:50 Why Jim loves gold but is starting to worry about its meteoric rise.
01:19:01 Why he owns some bonds, despite his grim prognosis for this asset class.
01:23:39 How bull markets attract sleazy salesmen & bear markets clear them away.
01:25:56 What inspired him to write a new book about two 18th-century heroes.
01:59:34 How studying history helps him appreciate some benefits of modern life.
Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.
BOOKS AND RESOURCES
- Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members.
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- Jim Grant’s website for Grant’s Interest Rate Observer.
- Subscribe to Almost Daily Grant’s, a free (almost) daily commentary on financial markets.
- Check out Grant’s Current Yield Podcast, which is co-hosted by Jim & his colleague Evan Lorenz.
- Emanuel Derman's book, My Life as a Quant.
- James Grant's book, Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend.
- Jim Grant's book, Friends until the End.
- William Green’s book, “Richer, Wiser, Happier” – read the reviews of this book.
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