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
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. Thats a beautiful deleveraging. – Ray Dalio
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
Most of Roosevelts innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. – Thomas Frank