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Bridgewater Associates is a Connecticut-based hedge fund founded by Ray Dalio, known for macroeconomic investing and its "Pure Alpha" strategy.
Ray Dalio called AI a "classic bubble" near bursting in Singapore, citing rising rates on AI debt that Morgan Stanley sees nearing $570 billion this year. With hyperscaler capex near all of operating cash flow, the cost of the bonds that fill the gap decides whether he is right.
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Ten-year Treasury yields reached 5.27%, the highest since June 2007, with real yields supplying 66 of the five-year's 72bp monthly rise. The bond market is pricing a strong economy, while Goldman Sachs finds the median S&P 500 stock already 16% below its 52-week high.
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Goldman Sachs says half of S&P 500 members sit 16% or more below their 52-week highs while the index is about 1% off its record. The gap points to a few heavily weighted AI stocks carrying the index as Treasury and European bond yields keep climbing.
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Contrarian Thinking's founder says gossip earns a warning and then a firing. The case she describes in her new book began with an employee telling coworkers, every week, that the company worked them too hard.
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The Bridgewater founder said in a video for the World Economic Forum that over-investment in world-changing technology creates debt and then a bubble and then a bust. Fortune puts the dotcom version at a 77% Nasdaq fall.
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Bridgewater's co-CIO wants companies above a fixed share of AI compute supervised the way regulators supervise too-big-to-fail banks, with capital requirements and stress tests. The two labs he names are private.
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US debt crossed $40 trillion and the interest bill now tops Medicare. The buyback that helped move gold and bitcoin was $4 billion, or one hundredth of one percent of the stock.
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Ray Dalio told investors to cut bonds and hold gold plus a bit of Bitcoin, days after US debt hit $40.047 trillion. The 23% rally that followed is a sovereign-credit trade, not a beta trade.
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Four years into an AI-led bull run, the work being done in client portfolios is cash matching against dated obligations. Dalio's wealth-versus-money line is the operational part.
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A new scenario model puts household numbers on the fiscal path: $53,000 in extra lifetime mortgage payments for a 2031 buyer, and a $705 monthly hole for retirees by 2033.
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