James Grant

James Grant, the founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, was born in 1946, a year of baby-size interest rates. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies—at Indiana University and Columbia University, respectively—as the gold-backed dollar gave way to today’s paper model, and he served his journalistic apprenticeship at the Baltimore Sun and Barron’s during the 1970s great inflation. Author of five books (four on finance and financial history, a fifth a biography of John Adams), he is the father of four grown children and lives with his wife in Brooklyn.