David Stockman, director of the Office of Management of Budget under President Reagan and mas -ter of mazy budgetary arithmetic, joins Jim and Evan for a scintillating discussion of fiscal and monetary matters.
0:00 The Simpsons foreshadowing3:20 Deficits and debt monetization. What's the harm?9:01 Requiem for a bond bull market15:30 Sell what the central banks are selling
James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most recently, of The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself. Grant's television appearances include "60 Minutes," "The Charlie Rose Show," Bloomberg TV, CNBC and other well-known financial news sources. His journalism has appeared in a variety of periodicals, including the "Financial Times", "The Wall Street Journal" and "Foreign Affairs."