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5 Dec

Now that things have calmed down I want to clarify what I meant when I sloppily answered a question about China from Andrew Ross Sorkin that created a misunderstanding of my views. (1/6)

I assure you that I didn’t mean to convey that human rights aren’t important because I certainly believe they are and I didn’t mean to convey that the US and China deal with these issues similarly because they certainly don’t. (2/6)

I am an American who has lived my whole life in the US, experiencing the American Dream, and I believe in our system. At the same time, I have spent more than half my life in contact with China which has helped me understand their system as well. (3/6)

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@RayDalio

4 Dec

Because knowledge is gained more than it is lost, it advances more in spurts and sputters than in cycles that have downs as well as ups. The spurts come when societies are in the upward swings of the Big Cycle and the sputters come when they are in the downward swings.

Renaissance periods of great creativity that produce advances in most areas (sciences, arts, philosophies about how people should govern, etc.) come more during the peaceful & prosperous parts of the Big Cycle, when the systems for creating innovations are good rather than bad.

While specific inventions and the ways they come about have evolved through time, they have unwaveringly evolved toward doing and making things better, replacing manual labor with machines and automation, and making people around the world more interconnected.

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Ray Dalio

@RayDalio

30 Nov

I'm so glad to finally be releasing my new book, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, today. (1/6)

A few years ago, I observed that we were experiencing things that had never happened in my lifetime but had happened many times before in history. (2/6)

As a global macro investor, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to understand and navigate what’s happening today—much less what may come—without having a deep understanding of the cause-effect relationships of economic events that are embedded in the patterns of history. (3/6)

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@RayDalio

29 Nov

Such orders have always existed at every level—within families, companies, cities, states, and countries, as well as internationally. They determine who has what powers and how decisions are made, including how wealth and political control are divided. (1/4)

What they are and how they run is a function of human nature, culture, and circumstances. The US now has a certain set of existing political conditions within its democratic system...(2/4)

...but both the conditions and the system are ever-changing because of the pressure of timeless and universal forces. (3/4)

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Ray Dalio

@RayDalio

20 Nov

Sometimes people mistake generosity for not being fair.

For example, when Bridgewater arranged for a bus to shuttle people who live in New York City to our Connecticut office... (1/4)

... one employee asked, "It seems it would be fair to also compensate those of us who spend hundreds of dollars on gas each month, particularly in light of the NYC bus."

This line of thinking mistakes an act of generosity for some for an entitlement for everyone. (2/4)

Fairness & generosity are different things. Generosity is good and entitlement is bad, & they can easily be confused, so be crystal clear on which is which. Decisions should be based on what you believe is warranted in a particular circumstance & what will be most appreciated.3/4

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Ray Dalio

@RayDalio

19 Nov

For example, my dad and most of his peers who went through the Great Depression and World War II never imagined the post-war economic boom because it was more different from than similar to what they had experienced. (1/4)

I understand why, given those experiences, they wouldn’t think of borrowing and putting their hard-earned savings into the stock market, so it’s understandable that they missed out on profiting from the boom. (2/4)

Similarly, I understand why, decades later, those who only experienced debt-financed booms and never experienced depression and war would borrow a lot in order to speculate and would consider depression and war implausible. (3/4)

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