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Brooklyn Heights Resident James Grant Calls for True Gold Standard

Brooklyn Heights resident/financial guru James Grant addressed the 64th CFA Institute Annual Conference today and called for a return to a “true gold standard (that) favors no one nation, but synchronizes the balance of payments between all.”

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The Pipes, the Pipes Are Calling….

If you heard the skirl of bagpipes wafting along Montague Street this afternoon, you would have found the piper stationed by the entrance of the Casino, greeting guests arriving for the reception following the wedding of Emily Grant and Matthew Turner, who earlier exchanged vows at the Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen, on Schermerhorn […]

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The BHB Ten: 2008

We thought it would be interesting to compile a list of 10 people who live or work in Brooklyn Heights who we think made an impact on our neighborhood, our city, our country or the world.  We asked for your input as well and the list reflects that. None of those named in the BHB […]

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In Broad Daylight, Economy Mugged on Wall Street

Heights resident and financial pundit James Grant, publisher of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, spoke yesterday evening at Barnes & Noble on Court Street in connection with the recent publication of his fifth book, Mr. Market Miscalculates: The Bubble Years and Beyond. The book is an anthology of Mr. Grant’s columns in the Interest Rate Observer […]

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Grant’s Advice: Write in Adams

Financial authority, historian and Heights resident James Grant addressed the annual meeting of the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn yesterday evening at Pete’s Downtown Restaurant, Old Fulton Street. The title of Grant’s talk was “Election 2008: Write in John Adams”. In addition to publishing Grant’s Interest Rate Observer since 1983 and having […]

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