Billionaire hedge fund supervisor warns of ‘financial coronary heart assault’ for US financial system

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Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio stated on a latest podcast that the U.S. could possibly be headed in direction of a future “economic heart attack” with out authorities motion.

He advised Bloomberg’s “Odd Lots” podcast that he needed to tell policymakers that “there’s a solution here” that’s “doable” to handle the federal government deficit and an impending debt disaster. 

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio stated on a latest podcast that the U.S. could possibly be headed in direction of a future “economic heart attack” with out authorities motion. (Takaaki Iwabu/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

“You can lower that deficit to go to 3% of GDP,” he defined to the hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway. “Trump’s tax cuts come in, the projected deficit will be about 7.5% of GDP, and you have to cut that to about 3% of GDP because that’ll mean that debts won’t rise relative to incomes, and it will greatly improve the supply and demand.”

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The U.S. authorities noticed a deficit of $1.8 trillion in fiscal 2024 alone stemming from $6.75 trillion in spending whereas bringing in revenues of $4.92 trillion, per the Treasury Division. 

Dalio advised “Odd Lots” that the U.S. is “quite near that point” of a debt loss of life spiral. With out motion, he instructed the nation may see a “heart attack” happen in “three years, give or take a year, something like that.” 

America’s nationwide debt presently stands at $36.2 trillion, in keeping with the Treasury Division. It crossed the $35 trillion mark through the summer season final yr for the primary time. 

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“If you don’t do it, you’re going to be in trouble,” the Bridgewater Associates founder stated of addressing the U.S.’s deficit and debt. 

The U.S. authorities noticed a deficit of $1.8 trillion in fiscal 2024 alone stemming from $6.75 trillion in spending whereas bringing in revenues of $4.92 trillion, per the Treasury Division. (SAUL LOEB/AFP by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

He had gone on the Bloomberg podcast to debate debt cycles and speak about his upcoming guide “How Countries Go Broke.” It’s slated for launch in early September. 

Dalio, who based Bridgewater about 50 years in the past, has a web price of $14 billion, in keeping with Forbes.

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