It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all youre doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow. – Ray Dalio
Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, theres an education level that plays into the mix and so if its inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in. – Ray Dalio
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. – Ray Dalio
I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you dont know what the future is going to hold. – Ray Dalio
See, thats why Baracks running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college. – Michelle Obama