The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
James GrantIt's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?
James GrantTo me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by 'n.' And 'n', I'm glad you ask, 'n' is the world's trust in the institution of paper money and in the capacity of people like Ben Bernanke to manage it. So the smaller 'n', the bigger the price. One divided by a receding number is the definition of a bull market.
James GrantTo suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.
James Grant