How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle

Ray Dalio

Language: English

Description:

"This book is a gift to humanity....Ray provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity." —Henry M. Paulson Jr.
"An invaluable resource for policymakers, investors, and citizens." —Lawrence H. Summers
An urgent warning about the American economy from Ray Dalio, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles.

Do big government debts threaten our collective well-being? Are there limits to debt growth? Can a big, important reserve currency country like the United States really go broke—and what would that look like?

For decades, politicians, policymakers, and investors have debated these questions, but the answers have eluded them. In this groundbreaking book, Ray Dalio, one of the greatest investors of our time who anticipated the 2008 global financial crisis and the 2010–12 European debt crisis, shares for the first time his detailed...