Ray Dalio

11 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2025 by Ray Dalio · said 9 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 20, 2025
Insight
Dalio: Beyond basic subsistence, wealth has zero correlation with happiness
“You look at studies of history and you find in studies of history what brings about happiness and health past a certain amount of money. Of basic subsistence life. There's no correlation between the amount of money you have and the amount of healthy happiness …”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 59:01 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dalio's first stock investment tripled after near-bankrupt company was acquired
“The first stock I bought I bought only because it was the only company I ever heard of that was selling for less than five dollars a share. And I thought, well, then I can buy more shares. So if it goes up, I'll make more money, which of course made no sense. …”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 4:19 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Dalio: Current financial markets are in a bubble vulnerable to popping
“So in my opinion, we're in a bubble. Okay. By various measures of it being in a bubble and people feeling very wealthy, but you have that vulnerability.”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 39:25 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Dalio: The post-1945 multilateral rules-based global governance order has ended
“That world order has gone from a world order that it was a multilateral world order, sort of with rules like the United Nations and the World Trade Organization and the World A health organization, and the world, this is, you know, the world bank, and the worl…”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 43:53 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025 positive
Opinion
Dalio attributes his career success primarily to transcendental meditation
“Meditation has been the biggest source of success that I have. It's given me an equanimity.”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 57:30 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dalio: Natural disasters and pandemics have killed more people than wars
“Droughts, floods, and pandemics have killed more people than wars and changed more orders.”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 44:49 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025
Insight
Dalio: Systematizing decision criteria and backtesting removes emotion from investing
“The way I learned to invest, ah, was to write down my criteria when I was making a decision. Every time I'd make a decision, I would then think, why am I making that decision? And then I write down the criteria and see how it would have worked in the past.”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 6:02 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025
Insight
Dalio: Neutral countries prosper economically in wars while winners and losers suffer
“Because if you look at the history of wars and so on, there are winners of the wars, losers of the wars, and neutral countries. The winners of the wars lose, meaning they still get deeper in debt and they have the consequences of the wars. The losers of the wa…”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 1:04:04 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Dalio: Investors should hold 5% to 15% of their portfolios in gold
“An individual, and most investors should have between five and 15% of their portfolio in a gold or an alternative money.”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 22:14 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025 bearish
Insight
Dalio: Earning interest on gold-linked assets reflects credit risk, not ownership
“So what you're getting paid for is credit risk, right? So it's not gold. It's a promise to get your gold back, right? Then that's what money was. And that's why it would have an interest rate. You have an interest rate that on the promise to get your gold back…”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 14:54 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Dalio discloses he holds a small amount of Bitcoin
“So I hold a little bit of Bitcoin. I have a little bit of Bitcoin, but for me, it's not as attractive as gold for the reasons you asked me my thoughts.”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 25:52 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
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