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Billionaire investor who founded Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds, known for macroeconomic commentary and risk forecasting.
Bank of America Institute says Americans 55 and over held about $140 trillion in the second quarter, three-quarters of US net worth. Their spending now depends on a stock rally that a few AI companies drove.
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Temasek CEO Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegaran defended a unit's S$6.6 billion data centre sale, saying further investment would have raised its costs. The worry he gave is whether AI infrastructure spending lifts borrowing costs for the Temasek companies that need credit to adopt the technology.
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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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A Dallas Morning News column puts sign-ups for the $1,000 newborn seed below one in ten eligible children. The $7 billion that Dell and Dalio money has layered on top reaches only the families who enrol.
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Gizmodo reports that a StarkWare researcher's transaction needed no soft fork. That fact moves post-quantum migration out of the developer debate and into the custody workflow, where somebody has to schedule it and pay for it.
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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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