> The James Grant that, in 2010, was one of the co-signers of the Open Letter to Bernanke:
Not sure if you are asking but yes that was him, and you can make a very good argument that those people were correct that QE should have been discontinued back in 2010. Lots of economists thought so at the time and yet here we are 15 years later and that QE is still on going.
At what point do you con sider him to be correct that its time to end QE, unless you think that continuous QE is a good thing?
I mean, like another poster pointed out, like him or not, What he writes get read by some of the most influential people on the planet.
If you are in government monetary policy you read his news letter, if you work for any sort of macro hedge fund you read his news letter. IF you are on the sell side you read his news letter for nothing more than to understand what your clients are thinking about.
You may not like him, but the top people at investment banks, hedge funds and central banks all read(and pay for that privilege) what he has to say.
In finance there are alot of people who have limited success, those who are good tend to have prolonged success and stick around. He's been writing for 4+ decades, in finance where the average career is 7 years or so that like 6 generations of traders who listen to him.
So if you are asking if its that James Grant then yes, one of the single most successful and influential people in finance, then yes that guy:)