Bridgewater's Dalio Warns "There's A War Going On... And Taxes Won't Help"
The founder and CEO of Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund, was not exactly cock-a-hoop about Trump's tax reform plan ahead of this week's successful vote, and now that the details are out, Ray...
View ArticleRepublican Leaders Consider 22% Corporate Rate: WaPo
With Republican leaders still frantically scrambling to find last-minute fixes in their tax-reform plan that will help win over moderate Republicans and deficit hawks who could create problems during...
View ArticleDalio Confirms GOP Tax Plan "Good For Business", Bad For Democratic States
Confirming what many have suggested, the billionaire founder of the world's largest hedge fund, warns in his latest letter to watch out for the effects of tax reform on migration, the fiscal conditions...
View ArticleThe Problem Isn't Populism: The Problem Is The Status Quo Has Failed
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,The top 5% who have benefited so immensely from the consolidation of wealth and power cannot confess the status quo has failed the bottom 95%.The...
View ArticleThe 'End Of Dreams' And The Saving Of Appearances
Authord by Alastair Crooke via The Automatic Earth blog,Robert Kagan first called attention to the fact that America would need to awake from its ‘dream’ a decade ago in End of Dreams: The Return of...
View ArticleMauldin: A Generational Reset Redistributing Wealth To The Bottom 60% Is Near
Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com,Billionaire founder of top hedge fund Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio got where he is by having keen insight into both human nature and economic...
View ArticleWhy Cryptos Will Not Replace Gold As A Store Of Value
Why Cryptos Will Not Replace Gold As A Store Of Value- Gold versus Bitcoin: The pro-gold argument takes shape- Why cryptocurrencies will not replace gold as a store of value- Similarities between...
View ArticleWhy We're Buying Physical Gold with a $1700 Target
Originally on marketslant.comFor What it is Worth: We are buying Gold in our small family fund. This is a trade, not an investment. Potentially a much longer term trade for us than normal, possibly a...
View ArticleMauldin: The Distribution Of Pain
Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com,When you write about economics, you learn very quickly that the economy doesn’t care what you say about it. The forces that drive it are beyond any one...
View ArticleRay Dalio Goes On Gold Buying Spree, Adds 575% To GLD Holdings, Becomes 8th...
Until last quarter, the world's biggest hedge fund had, curiously, never held a position (according to our records) in any of the most liquid gold ETFs, whether the SPDR Gold Trust, the GLD, or the...
View Article"This Doesn't End Well": SocGen Explains Why US Balance Sheets Are Far Worse...
Reverting to one of his favorite topics - namely how the application of a statistical average of a sharply bimodal sample tends to muddle the resulting signal, something Ray Dalio expounded on as...
View ArticlePrepare For Interest Rate Rises And Global Debt Bubble Collapse
Prepare For Interest Rate Rises And Global Debt Bubble Collapse - Diversify, rebalance investments and prepare for interest rate rises- UK launches inquiry into household finances as £200bn debt pile...
View ArticleBridgewater Paid $1 Million To Settle Sexual Harassment Charge Against Former...
Embarrassing revelations about sexual harassment in the workplace continue to emerge in the media as the national conversation about sexual misconduct has spread from tech, to entertainment and media...
View ArticleVisualizing How Billionaire Investors Hedge Against Geopolitical Black Swans
Investors must always be comfortable with the idea that the market bears risk.Sometimes this risk flies under the radar and isn’t as pronounced as it probably should be. However, as Visual...
View ArticleThe "Fat Pitch"& Miss
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,While I remain long and invested in the markets on behalf of my clients, I focus and write about the significant risks that are currently present....
View ArticleBill Miller Put 30% Of His Fund's Assets In Bitcoin
While Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio and Larry Fink have all revealed themselves to be skeptics of bitcoin, accusing it of being a bubble, at best, and a fraud, at worst, one longtime investor...
View ArticleWhat Could Pop The Everything Bubble?
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via PeakProsperity.com,I’ve long held that if a problem can be solved by creating $1 trillion out of thin air and buying a raft of assets with that $1 trillion, then...
View ArticleRay Dalio Warns Of "Significant" Bond Market Risk
Casting his vote in the ongoing debate of which is a bigger bubble, bonds or stocks, Bridgewater's billionaire founder Ray Dalio, who has continued his whirlwind of media appearances in recent years,...
View Article"Of Course It's A Bubble" - Ethereum Founder Says He's Not Worried About...
As technology stocks and securitized mortgages have demonstrated all too recently, just because a bubble pops doesn’t mean it’s the end of the market. Hell, it doesn’t even necessarily preclude that...
View ArticleEconomic Recovery - But For Who?
Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog,How to judge the effectiveness of the economic recovery since 2008 is a challenge?Many laud the Federal Reserve for it's actions to stave off a possible...
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