'''Ray Dalio''' is a billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. He's known for his [[economic]] insights, investment principles, and recent warnings about market bubbles and [[geopolitical]] risks.
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'''Ray Dalio''' is a billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. He's known for his [[economic]] insights, investment principles, and recent warnings about market bubbles and [[geopolitical]] risks. Dalio has appeared on the ''[[Time magazine]]'' 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as the ''[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg Markets]]'' list of the 50 most influential people.
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Dalio wrote in his 2021 book, ''Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order'':<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Changing-World-Order-Nations-Succeed/dp/1982160276 Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail], November 30, 2021, by Ray Dalio. [[Amazon.com]]</ref>
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{{The decline phase of an [[empire]] is always accompanied by [[inflation|money printing]], rising [[debt]], internal conflict, and loss of [[reserve currency]] status.}}