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Fortune
Will Daniel

Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio just put the odds of a ‘hot world war’ at 50%—thanks to 2 ‘brutal’ ground wars in Ukraine and Gaza

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Ray Dalio, retired founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, warned this week that the Israel-Hamas conflict marks “another step toward international war.” 

“It appears to me that the odds of transitioning from the contained conflicts to a more uncontained hot world war that includes the major powers have risen from 35% to about 50% over the last two years,” the billionaire wrote in a Thursday Linkedin post.

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