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"The road to confetti "

April 15 comes and goes but the federal debt stays and grows. The secrets of its life force are the topics at hand...

APR 22, 2016

"Monetary action agenda"

With respect to the radicalization of monetary policy, investors en masse resemble the sleepy frog in the warming saucepan. They don’t jump out while the jumping’s good.

NOV 14, 2014

"Let's bury the gold"

Consider Echo Bay Mines

SEP 21, 1987

"Gyro Gearloose redux ."

The arc of monetary evolution is the subject at hand. A question for the dollar-holding subscribers of Grant’s: What’s really in your wallet?

FEB 26, 2016

"Inside ACE Securities’ HEL Trust, Series 2005-HE5"

The nation is running out of magazine covers on which to announce the coming collapse of house prices. From which fact it could be inferred that . . .

SEP 8, 2006

"The slowest asset"

In Houston, office rents are falling again, fully a decade after the Texas energy business stopped inflating and began deflating. Rents continue to fall in New York, too...

APR 24, 1992

"The balance sheet that ate Switzerland"

Like a celebrity in flight from the paparazzi, the Swiss Confederation demands protection from its pesky admirers.

SEP 19, 2014

"Beijing to Sydney"

Herewith an update on China (sinking), Australia (sympathetically sinking), and a handful of Grant's short-sale names (also sinking, except for the one that soared).

JUN 14, 2013

"Nikkei put warrants"

The wonderful Herbert Stein remark about patience--"If something can't go on forever, it won't"--has been as good a motto as any to lose money by in this epic bull market.

JUL 7, 1989

"The thrifts are coming! The thrifts are coming!"

A discussion of newly converted thrifts coming to the market.

OCT 29, 2010

"Certifiably formerly toxic "

A discussion of the transformation of Innospec.

SEP 17, 2010

"Pariahs’ club "

The stock market is, by our lights, absurd, but it is becoming slightly more symmetrically absurd. There is a growing list of cheap valuations to complement a considerably larger number of extravagant ones.

FEB 4, 2000

"Anticipating Mr. Friedman "

history, a man so driven as the chief curator of Restoration Hardware might have led a revolution. As it is, he seeks to revolutionize the high end of furniture and décor trades.

DEC 11, 2015

"Generation ZIRP"

Lenders and borrowers may be reasonable people, but they periodically miscalculate. There is feast, then there is famine, world without end. It’s the credit-related business models that come and go.

JAN 23, 2015

"Drug dealer"

A financialized age has at last produced a financialized pharmaceutical company. Herewith, a long look at an enterprise that does its compound-hunting not in the laboratory but in the stock market.

MAR 7, 2014

"For the un-meek"

If something can’t go on forever, it won’t. Now under way is a bullish speculation on a bearish set of circumstances. Anticipating the joyous relief imparted by the lifting of bankruptcy fears.

MAR 11, 2016

"Introducing the Grant’s Supermodel Credit Portfolio"

Credit is what we are bullish on--cast-off residential mortgage-backed securities, senior bank loans, convertible bonds and corporate...

DEC 12, 2008

"Klarman baits a hook"

Seth A. Klarman, an investor of private capital in Cambridge, Mass., is now, and has been for some weeks, buying junk bonds--a few issues--with conviction.

FEB 16, 1990

"Yield to worst"

"The food is terrible," to quote the famously ambivalent restaurant review--"and the portions are so small." Much the same can be said of today's junk-bond market.

APR 4, 2014

"Napoleon advances on Moscow"

JUN 24, 1988

"Junk debunked"

SEP 24, 1984

"Soil erosion"

Farmland values climbed with rising corn prices and tumbling interest rates. Now the cycle turns. We write for urbanites, suburbanites, exurbanites and agriculturalists alike.

AUG 8, 2014

"Zero-coupon trees"

While Wall Street has disavowed extreme leverage since the crisis of 2008, foresters practice it as a matter of course. Dig a hole, plant a seedling and wait 25 or 30 years.

JUL 13, 2012

"Trump for the bid"

A coincidence in the latest Playboy: Donald J. Trump, the subject of the Playboy interview, and Miss March, Deborah Driggs, share the same basic philosophy of life.

FEB 2, 1990