Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think,… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not buying because… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
