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Speaker 1: Ray Dalio has built Bridgewater and the largest single hedge

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Speaker 1: He's also an accomplished author. In his most recent book,

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Speaker 1: The Changing World Order, talks about the rising China and

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Speaker 1: by asking you, uh this. You're running the largest hedge

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Speaker 1: How do you have time to write books when you

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Speaker 1: were and running that hedge fund. I didn't write either

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Speaker 1: of those books. Really, what I did was this book

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Speaker 1: was UM. In order to understand what was going on today,

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Speaker 1: I needed to do a study, right, and what I

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Speaker 1: It took me a couple of sittings to get through

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Speaker 1: because it's a lot of detail in here. Um. You

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Speaker 1: I go into this learning immersion, UM and then UM,

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Speaker 1: and I iterate with it. I show them what I've got,

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Speaker 1: They come back and that's the process. Okay. So you

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Speaker 1: have in here people who have said good things about

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Speaker 1: You know both of them, who's smarter? Well, I think, um,

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Speaker 1: there are three big cycles in history. It's not fair. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: through the first cycle. The first cycle is when economy

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