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The Changing World Order

Ray Dalio · 2020

"Long-term debt, currency, and empire cycles explain the relative decline of the US and rise of China."

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Ray Dalio's framework on the rise and fall of empires. He argues that global superpowers follow a predictable 250-year cycle driven by education, technological innovation, economic dominance, and eventually, financial ruin and conflict.

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