James Grant News
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At the Museum of American Finance’s gala last night, Duncan Niederauer told Jes Staley he was “feeling good about” the sale of NYSE Euronext to IntercontinentalExchange.
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Unlike the Brylcreem ad currently warming the power chair, Thomas B. Reed, Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1890s, had little hair and a great sense of humor.
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The U.S. has been “overmedicated” by public policy and should consider the government’s 1920’s response to recession, said James Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer.
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The Olympics are over, and the Village is for sale. The complex in Vancouver, British Columbia, that housed the athletes during the 2010 Winter Olympics has been converted into 1,100 luxury condos.
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The Republican Party is so concerned about inflation that it’s considering a return to the gold standard. While there’s little evidence those fears are justified, they could shape a Romney administration’s approach to the Federal Reserve.
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When does holding cash go from being a virtue to a vice? When it conspires to undermine the attractiveness of capital markets.
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Barclays Plc, Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley can’t use New York law to block Theflyonthewall.com, an online financial news service, from issuing immediate reports about changes in their stock ratings, a federal appeals court ruled.
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TONIGHT on Charlie Rose @ 8p & 10p ET, a discussion on the value of gold with John Hathaway of Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Peter Munk, chairman and founder of Barrick Gold Corp., and James Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. Also, David Einhorn, co-founder and president of hedge-fund operator Greenlight Capital Inc., discusses navigating the global economy as an investor.
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The University of Southern California received two gifts, totaling $100 million, to fund cancer research and construct a journalism building.
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Florida lawmakers, facing a projected deficit next year of as much as $2.3 billion, are considering bills expanding prisoner rehabilitation to shorten prison time and lower costs.
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