Ray Dalio’s Warning: The U.S Debt Crisis Is Escalating
Published: 2025-03-19
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Published: 2025-03-19
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The US will struggle to find buyers for its debt due to supply and demand issues.
"the United States government has to sell a quantity of debt that the world is not going to want to buy."
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Foreign countries' willingness to lend money to the US government will decrease.
"Foreign countries are not going to want to keep lending money to the United States government."
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The US government is engaging in deficit spending, meaning it is spending more than it earns.
"This is called deficit spending. Spending money that you don't have."
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The US government's high borrowing levels could lead to future problems.
"the United States government has been borrowing a lot of money and now they could be facing some issues."
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Ray Dalio predicts the US deficit needs to shrink from 7.2% to 3% of GDP to resolve issues.
"He says the US deficit needs to go from a projected level of 7.2% of GDP to about 3% of GDP."
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Significant and surprising measures will be taken to address the US deficit.
"You are going to see shocking developments in terms of how that's going to be dealt with."
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Reducing the US deficit will be a difficult process.
"Shrinking your deficit is going to be painful."
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A reduction in government spending will have negative consequences for certain groups.
"if you reduce government spending, that's going to impact somebody."
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A decrease in foreign countries' desire to hold US dollars could negatively impact the dollar's value.
"Foreign countries may not want to keep owning the dollar, which can create a problem for the United States dollar."
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The current debt situation could lead to debt restructuring, pressure on other nations to buy US debt, or the US defaulting on payments to creditors.
"this issue could result in a restructuring of the debt. It could result in the United States applying pressure on other countries to buy the debt or even cutting off payments to some other creditor countries."
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A US government default would shatter the perception of US Treasury bonds as a risk-free investment.
"if the United States government was to not make a payment, you bet that people thinking about lending money to the United States government are now going to think twice because it was supposed to be a risk-free investment. And now if this risk-free investment is not paying its bills, well, it's no longer a risk-free investment."
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A US inability to make payments could exacerbate inflation and create broader economic and investment problems, impacting its status as the world's reserve currency.
"if you are the world's superpower, you have the world's reserve currency, the dollar, and you can't make your payments, you can now run into some problems that could make the inflation issue worse, that could create more economic issues. That could create more investment issues."
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Historical patterns suggest that empires and world reserve currencies have finite lifespans.
"every great empire has a timeline. Every currency, every world's reserve currency has a timeline."
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A decline in global confidence in the US dollar, leading to reduced lending and its devaluation, will cause further issues.
"if other countries start to lose faith in the dollar and they start to look for alternatives and they start to not lend money to the United States and we start to see the value of the dollar drop, that could create more problems."
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Consider diversifying investments into hard assets and international assets.
"Maybe you look into some hard assets. Maybe you look into some international assets as a way to diversify."
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