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Jim Grant
10Mar2014

Jim Grant: Life Would Be Simpler If Valuation Followed Law Of Gravity

Jim Grant questions the levels of levity in the stock market in his recent issue of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer.
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Citing financial basics, Jim Grant writes: “Repeat after us, Chartered Financial Analysts: The price of a common stock is the present value of the sum of its future cash flows discounted by an appropriate rate of interest (the risk-free rate pus some premium),” Grant notes, citing . . .

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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