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14 dated public stances tracked since 2019-01-18, most recently 2026-10-19. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Jim Grant's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Jim Grant is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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tracked stances
11
themes
0
side flips
2026-10-19
last heard
Returns 90d +5.6% 62% correct · 8 calls · 180d +8.7% 60% correct · 5 calls · 1y +51.3% 80% correct · 5 calls
Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances. “% correct” is the share of those scored calls whose direction-aware return was positive at the horizon — in a rising market a bullish call is correct by default, so read it beside the market, not alone.
Scored calls
Every tracked call with at least one matured horizon: the rows behind the Returns line above. A dash is a horizon that has not matured yet.
| Date | Name | Call | 90d | 180d | 1y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | OIL | bullish | +26.3% | — | — |
| 2026-06-12 | GOLD | owns | +2.5% | — | — |
| 2026-06-12 | BANKS | bullish | +2.1% | — | — |
| 2025-02-20 | Gold Miners | bullish | +17.0% | +34.0% | +153.4% |
| 2025-02-20 | BITCOIN | bearish | -11.4% | -14.8% | +30.9% |
| 2025-02-19 | GOLD | bullish | +12.1% | +13.3% | +69.7% |
| 2024-09-20 | SPX | bearish | -3.1% | -0.1% | -18.8% |
| 2019-01-18 | GOLD | bullish | -0.5% | +11.2% | +21.3% |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | 4 | 4 bullish | 2026-10-19 | |
| AI DATA CENTER / HYPERSCALE CAPEX BUILDOUT | 1 | 1 bearish | 2025-02-19 | |
| AI INFRASTRUCTURE (SEMICONDUCTORS, DATA CENTERS) | 1 | 1 bearish | 2026-06-12 | |
| BANKS | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-06-12 | |
| BITCOIN | 1 | 1 bearish | 2025-02-20 | |
| CREDIT / HIGH-YIELD DEBT | 1 | 1 bearish | 2025-10-22 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
A preference cascade toward gold is developing from Asia outward, with China likely to announce a gold-collateralized currency tranche and Judy Shelton now inside the US Treasury pushing for gold to play a much bigger role — converging pressures that could…
“there's a kind of preference cascade developing, marginalization of gold is beginning in Asia”
Jim Grant says interest rate behavior may be forecasting a bear market
2026-10-19
Long Dur Treasuries
bearish
Jim Grant (newest) · video
The 40-year secular bull market in bonds has definitively ended, with 10-year yields up tenfold marking the start of a multi-decade bear market driven by unconstrained deficit spending and the inherent flaws of fiat finance
“indisputably bear market and on balance in both markets and bonds are not over in five years or ten years”
Jim Grant says interest rate behavior may be forecasting a bear market
2026-06-12
AI INFRASTRUCTURE (SEMICONDUCTORS, DATA CENTERS)
bearish
Meb Faber · video
Capital flooding into AI mirrors the railroad and fiber optic bubbles — double ordering and overbuilding of data centers and semiconductors based on demand that is unknowable and likely miscalculated
“I think that today is one of the greatest bubbles of all time”
Jim Grant: The Next Crash Won't Look Like 2008
The dollar has been structurally debased to near zero against gold; the Fed is constrained from fighting inflation by extreme financial leverage, ensuring continued monetary debasement, and central banks globally are accumulating gold as validation
“I own it because I believe the dollar has gone to zero basically against gold”
90d +2.5%
Jim Grant: The Next Crash Won't Look Like 2008
2026-06-12
UK USED CAR MARKETPLACE PLATFORM
bullish
Meb Faber · video
The market is pricing in AI-driven disruption of a UK used car transaction platform that Grant believes is unlikely to materialize, creating a valuation opportunity in the bargain bin
“the market is quite sure it will be disrupted by AI, but we think there are reasons to doubt that”
Jim Grant: The Next Crash Won't Look Like 2008
Certain smaller European banks trade at astonishingly low multiples of book value and earnings, offering value despite — or because of — being overlooked in a high-CAPE environment
“obscure banks in the continent of Europe trading at astonishingly low multiples of book and earnings”
90d +2.1%
Jim Grant: The Next Crash Won't Look Like 2008
Supply-demand balance structurally favors oil longs regardless of near-term Iran geopolitical noise, which Grant views as performative rather than fundamentally supply-disrupting
“the supply demand balance is going to favor the long side of the hydrocarbon markets”
90d +26.3%
Jim Grant: The Next Crash Won't Look Like 2008
2025-10-22
CREDIT / HIGH-YIELD DEBT
bearish
Lacy Hunt · video
The current credit cycle has entered its end stage where defaults and hidden defaults (extend-and-pretend) are multiplying, historically a precursor to a full credit reckoning
“this is the beginning of the end of the cycle, which will result in recrimination, congressional hearings”
Here's The Latest Outlook From Lacy Hunt, Lyn Alden, James Grant + A Dozen Other Experts
2025-02-20
Gold Miners
bullish
Wealthion · video
Gold miners massively underperformed gold in 2024 (GDX +10% vs gold +27%), the Trump-reaction headwind and rising-real-rates drag on miners are now behind us, creating mean-reversion setup for the next six months
“I truly believe that in the next 6 months...the gold stocks are going to have a very strong period”
90d +17.0% · 180d +34.0% · 1y +153.4%
Jim Grant's Golden Truth - Part II
Bitcoin has no 5,000-year monetary track record and is susceptible to rug-pull dynamics (citing Dogecoin); its intrinsically efficient price is zero, and its champions exhibit the same judgment failures as those promoting presidential meme coins
“I think the most efficient price of Bitcoin is zero”
90d -11.4% · 180d -14.8% · 1y +30.9%
Jim Grant's Golden Truth - Part II
Gold functions as monetary asset and real money during monetary disorder arising from a decade-plus of suppressed rates, misallocated capital, and misperceived risk that has inflated asset values across the system
“I truly believe in gold as a monetary asset not as a Keepsake... I believe in it as money”
90d +12.1% · 180d +13.3% · 1y +69.7%
Jim Grant's Golden Truth - Part I
Said again: 2025-02-20 (Wealthion), 2025-04-14 (Wealthion)
2025-02-19
AI DATA CENTER / HYPERSCALE CAPEX BUILDOUT
bearish
Wealthion · video
Data center supply is running far ahead of reasonably expected demand, tracing the same overbuilding arc as the dot-com era, and the DeepSeek shock briefly revealed what markets are reluctant to price — that much of the tens-of-billions in spending may be…
“we think that the supply is running greatly ahead of reasonably expected demand”
Jim Grant's Golden Truth - Part I
US equity market is priced near all-time highs on price/earnings and price/sales (~70x) while Buffett—the greatest equity investor—holds more T-bills than stocks, signaling that perfection is priced in with no room to improve
“if this is perfection how does it improve?”
90d -3.1% · 180d -0.1% · 1y -18.8%
'The greatest equity investor of all time' is trying to warn you, Jim Grant says
Fiat money conjured by central banks (Fed, ECB, BoJ) at will is not a true store of value; its weightlessness fuels credit mispricing and real resource misallocation, making tangible gold the logical monetary refuge when repricing eventually forces a reckoning
“what is money...that thing which can be conjured from a computer terminal at the FED in the trillions without anybody raising a sweat”
90d -0.5% · 180d +11.2% · 1y +21.3%
EPISODE 6: James Grant, Founder, Grant's Interest Rate Observer
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