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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is sounding the alarm: The U.S. national debt is approaching the point of no return. With the national debt soaring past $36 trillion, the United States is teetering on the edge of a dreaded Debt Spiral—a dangerous cycle where rising debt leads to skyrocketing interest payments, making the problem even worse. And with inflation looming, history tells us exactly how this story ends: a severe economic depression according to Ray Dalio. Dalio has studied the downfall of empires, and he sees the warning signs flashing. Here’s Dalio to explain. Make sure to stick around to the end of this video because there is a special gift for those who watch this entire video. Let’s get into it.
Ray Dalio is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author, best known as the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. Born in 1949, Dalio started investing at age 12 and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He built Bridgewater into a global powerhouse using his principles of radical transparency and meritocracy. Dalio is also a bestselling author, with books like Principles: Life & Work offering insights into decision-making, economics, and leadership. His macroeconomic expertise and unique investment strategies have made him one of the most influential financial thinkers of modern times.
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As long as you're still here with us, Ray, that's all that matters. Bless your heart.
Dalio is a fear mongerer
Isn't public issuing of more shares of your company stock the same as the government printing more money? Is the dilution not the same?
And Trump's Republican Party wants to triple the national debt AGAIN! Woohoo!!!
This guy is unbelievably. No, they won’t make it because of people like him
Just keep paying the annual interest payment,of the trillion dollars.
Get it yet Democrats? Regardless, STFU and get on board. Clinton, Obama and Biden all "promised" to address this, but each one fed more corruption and waste into the system
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Sounds to me like Ray and the rest of the 0.1% should pay more in taxes. Let Trumps tax cuts expire!
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Thanks China you'd know best about printing currency and crashing your own economy
bullshit take on what he actually said lol
This AI speaker is getting on my nerves… too bad, I like the content
You should have told the government that before they decided to spend billions on spreading homosexuality around the world
The problem with the fed deficit isn't the number.
The problem occurs when there's no buyers for the new debt.
That's called a panic, and it's consequence, a default.
You fix the problem by ending the issuance of new debt, and the federal gov't offers a coupon to exchange bond debt for stock equity.
What's the difference since these days you can borrow against either? Bonds are merely debt that pays interest.
And the ability to continue that is evermore questionable.
Furthermore the gov't would be prohibited from offering bonds and can only print the money it needs, but not in excess of the income from the previous year.
But anyway, since none of that sh*t will happen…..hang on to your hat and enjoy the ride…..cheers! 😇😎
EVERY YEAR HE SAYS THIS, ONE DAY HE WILL BE CORRECT AND THAT DAY HE WILL GIVE REFERENCE TO HIS LAST COMMENT AND WOULD SAY I TOLD YOU ALL.
The third option is economic growth.
Debt with interest is demonic
About six-seconds into this video the more informed viewer should realize that this podcast is about misinforming the less knowledgeable viewer by purporting that we have a national debt which debt does NOT exist. The reason why we don't really have a national debt is because the federal deficit that we do have has been created with we the peoples' electronically generated $s. This brings us to the crux of the matter which is that even though we the peoples' electronically generated $s spend exactly the same as we the peoples' forty-hour workweek paycheck $s, it is nonetheless impossible to actually borrow or payback, for that matter (which is to also quote Fed Chairman Powell), we the peoples' electronically generated $s simply because these $s are in fact…, electronically generated. AND YES…, it is all just that simple, as far as "The Big Picture" is concerned.
Succinctly stated, we do not have a national debt, but instead we just have an irrelevant federal deficit, as far as the amount whereas exactly what we the peoples' electronically generated $s are being spent on is the real issue. GO DOGE!
My full name is Oscar Dean Windham, and I am the most censored, the most suppressed scrivener/author in the entire world because I comment publicly, like this, about the fact that we do indeed now routinely electronically generate we the peoples' $s in order to keep our federal government's lights on, so to speak. AND…, and you can be absolutely certain that President Trump, along with all of our top tier federal officials, both elected and appointed, and on both sides of the political aisle, are every bit as aware of the reality of this Equity Spending (ES) process as I am…, 100% guaranteed!
So? They just issue new debt to pay old debt and so on. Hasn't that been the game?
A ponzi scheme?
Every of your videos is the same “People will not make it”. If they watch and listen your channel they would miss on all wealth. Market was up 30% last year
Debt is bad cholestrol.
Billionaires are fleeing a sinking ship and fraud amongst all forms of govt are facing scrutiny in their spending. GOOD! The CFO and several other people with FEMA have been fired for paying in excess of $700 a night for ILLEGALS in high end hotels. Social Security under scrutiny for around 12 million 112 year old receiving benefits and on and on and on