Grant’s Current Yield Podcast

George Friedman (@GPFutures), founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, calls in to discuss global goings-on and their potential investment implications. Jim identifies a potential long-term inflection point. 1:17 Germany’s upside-down banking system 7:29 Bad loans: A Chinese specialty 9:45 What to expect 90 years out? 14:28 The “Time Magazine indicator” .@GPFutures https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgefriedmangpf/ https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeFriedmanGPF/ ‏ Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com    

Barclay Leib (@btl0823) founder and principal of Sand Spring Advisors, LLC, comes by the office to discuss asset allocation, forensic accounting and Wall Street history. 1:44 Rules for selecting fund managers 5:40 Where does “edge” come from? 8:18 Fun and games in fund returns 12:17 The famous Hunt brothers trade 18:30 Unfavorable prices? Regulate them away Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com

Jim, Evan and Phil break down the watershed FOMC meeting this past week. Jim provides his updated reading list.   1:00 A startling announcement 5:15 2003 redux 10:08 E-Z money in the #economy 15:30 “Tools” and “frameworks” and “challenges”   .@federalreserve Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com  

Michael Schaus, director of market research for Brenton Point Wealth Advisors LLC and Zweig-DiMenna, stops by the office to discuss the current outlook and to remember the great investor Martin Zweig. https://brentonpoint.com/ 1:37 The European Central Bank takes it easy 6:40 Negative interest rates, back in vogue 12:39 Market cap to GDP: An useful indicator? 20:50 Weighing stock picking vs. macro  Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com    

Jim and Evan discuss the latest monetary happenings, the retirement of a Wall Street legend, and a little baseball.  1:17 The Fed’s listening tour and William McChesney Martin 8:20 Inflation catch-up 12:45 “A lack of dynamism” 13:00 Bill Gross and the Bank of Japan .@federalreserve .@bank_of_japan_e Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com    

Jim and Evan discuss recent happenings, with European credit and banking in focus. 1:32 French 30-year sovereigns offer “solid yields.”  3:40 Deutsche Bank, the big sick puppy 9:19 European banks and the so-called capital relief trade 10:45 Memorializing Dodgers great Don Newcombe 11:51 Amazon.com’s puffer jacket .@DeutscheBank .@Amazon.com Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com

As Japan marks 20 years of ultra-low rates, Jim and Phil take a look at monetary policies around the world. Jim shares his current reading list.   1:47 How long's secular? 3:50 Negative interest rates: a compendium 10:36 Grant's book club 14:57 The Fed's solvency, or lack thereof Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com  

Simon Mikhailovich, lead manager of the Tocqueville Bullion Reserve, stops by Grant's world headquarters to discuss doing business in the modern administrative state.   4:17 The "menacing" language of compliance 9:30 #Gold, negative-yielding bonds and safety 16:53 Jim's reading list   .@S_Mikhailovich www.bullionreserve.com Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com    

Russell Napier, independent strategist  and co-founder of the Electronic Research Interchange, joins the program to discuss the state of financial markets and his thought-provoking recent essay in the Financial Times.  3:18 “There’s a global monetary system?” 6:06  Central bank credit and “the savings glut” 11:28 Treasury yields: The world’s most reflexive asset class 18:35 ”The People’s Bank of China can inflate the whole world” https://www.facebook.com/financialtimes/ https://www.eri-c.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-napier-81292846/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/financial-times/ @ERICresearch @FinancialTimes Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com    

Alex J. Pollock, distinguished senior fellow at the R Street Institute in Washington and former president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, calls in to discuss the state of our central bank’s own finances. @RSI @FHLBC 3:07 Unrealized losses and the printing press 6:27 Treasury issuance and the Fed 9:45 Negative capital.  Does it matter? 15:55 Partially paid-in capital;  echoes of the banking partnerships of old Subscribe to the Grant's Current  Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com