Jeremy Grantham Calls “Epic Bubble”
One of my favorite themes here on Finance Gourmet is accountability. Accountability for your financial advisor, accountability for talking heads on money TV, accountability for analysts making “calls” about the market. Too often, all of these predictions and calls are simply forgotten until one of them is “right” and then, they won’t shut up about it. I try, in my huge amounts of spare time (Hah!) to bring a little bit of accountability to the big names and headlines that fly by. Today, it’s Jeremy Grantham. Epic Bubble Every article with the name Jeremy Grantham in it makes sure to “credit” him with predicting the housing bubble of 2007. Some also credit him with predicting the dot-com bubble of 2009. That’s pretty cool, but it is now 2021. Wondering about the TurboTax card? What has he predicted in the last 11 years? Have any of those predictions been good … or bad? Never mind that, the finance press says. He predicted those two things over a decade ago and now he says, “Epic bubble!” Print it! Jeremy Grantham Track Record First off, let’s give Mr. Grantham some credit. In January 2018, he predicted a “melt-up” in the stock market. He …