Brooke Sample, Columnist

A Conversation With Ray Dalio: Theme of the Week

Here’s what led Bloomberg Opinion coverage this week.

November 25, 2018 at 1:00 PM UTC

Brooke Sample is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion and member of the editorial board. She was previously an editor at Metal Bulletin, Bauer Media Group and the Virginian-Pilot.

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Ray Dalio sat with Bloomberg Opinion’s Barry Ritholtz this week for a live taping of the Masters in Business podcast. The founder and chairman of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, didn’t have comforting words for his audience: The world today looks an awful lot like that of the 1930s, and that’s not a good sign for financial markets. As the possibility of a currency crisis looms, investors can also expect lower returns and more taxes, Dalio says. “It sounds as if being a constant winner in the markets will be a difficult endeavor,” Brian Chappatta noted in a column about the Dalio interview.

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