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Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio: I've studied 500 years of history and fear we're entering the most dangerous phase of the 'Big Cycle'

dalio (Credit: Photograph by Iman Al-dabbagh/Fortune)

Most people are shocked by what’s unfolding in the world right now. I’m not. I’ve seen this movie before.

As a global macro investor for over 50 years, I’ve had to study the cause-and-effect relationships that drive history in order to place my bets. What I found is that all monetary orders, political orders, and geopolitical orders rise, evolve, and collapse in a repeating pattern I call “the Big Cycle”—typically lasting about 75 years, give or take about 30.

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