Bridgewater's billionaire founder sees dangerous 1930s parallels as government intervention increases and debt reaches World War II levels.
Ray Dalio issues his most dire warning to America yet: The ballooning $37 trillion debt will trigger an ‘economic heart attack’
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Execs at Ray Dalio’s hedge fund say we’re in a ‘once-in-a-generation’ economic shift that ‘threatens the existing world order’
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Ray Dalio says America’s ‘debt-induced heart attack’ will happen under Trump 2.0—and no one’s brave enough to stop it
But Dalio, speaking at the Future China Global Forum in Singapore this week, doesn't think the U.S. is in a position to pull back…
The hedge fund billionaire is talking about the nearly $37 trillion national debt—again.
Dalio said the impending “economic heart attack” caused by increasing federal debt hasn’t been priced in.
Central to all of Dalio’s advice is his guiding principle for personal growth: “Pain plus reflection equals progress.”
“I think the issue is very much that you can’t look at the U.S. as a whole nowadays,” the Bridgewater Associates founder said at…
Dalio told Fortune that he's looking back at 500 years of history to try and make sense of today and see what's coming.
