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The Big Cycle
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Ray Dalio
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Ray Dalio
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“This book is a gift to humanity….Ray provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity.”—Henry M. Paulson Jr.
“An invaluable resource for policymakers, investors, and citizens.”—Lawrence H. Summers
An urgent warning about the American economy from Ray Dalio, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles.
Do big government debts threaten our collective well-being? Are there limits to debt growth? Can a big, important reserve currency country like the United States really go broke—and what would that look like?
For decades, politicians, policymakers, and investors have debated these questions, but the answers have eluded them. In this groundbreaking book, Ray Dalio, one of the greatest investors of our time who anticipated the 2008 global financial crisis and the 2010-12 European debt crisis, shares for the first time his detailed explanation of what he calls the “Big Debt Cycle.” Understanding this cycle is critical for helping policymakers, investors, and the general public grasp where we are and where we are headed with the debt issue. Dalio’s model points toward surprisingly straightforward solutions for dealing with the debt problems that the US, Europe, Japan, and China face today.
How Countries Go Broke also shows how these debt problems are related to the other forces—political within countries, geopolitical between countries, natural (droughts, floods, and pandemics), and technological (most importantly, AI)—that together are causing what Dalio calls the “Overall Big Cycle” changes in the world order. By listening to this audiobook, you will improve your understanding of what’s happening now and what to do about it.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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The ultrarich hold more of America’s wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers. Here, Evan Osnos’s incisive reportage yields an unforgettable portrait of the tactics and obsessions driving this new Gilded Age, in which superyachts, luxury bunkers, elite tax dodges, and a torrent of political donations bespeak staggering disparities of wealth and power. With deft storytelling and meticulous reporting, this is a book about the indulgences, incentives, and psychological distortions that define our economic age.
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Just okay
- By Lara on 07-05-25
By: Evan Osnos
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Fiat Ruins Everything: Why the Money’s Broken and How Bitcoin Fixes It
- How Central Banks, Inflation, and Fiat Currency Keep You Poor—and Why Bitcoin Is the Only Way Out
- By: Southerland Publishing
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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You were promised the American Dream: work hard, save smart, and one day retire comfortably. But what if the money you’re saving is designed to lose value? What if the economy isn’t broken—it’s rigged? Fiat Ruins Everything is a raw, unapologetic guide to how the modern financial system quietly robs you through inflation, debt, and deception. In this groundbreaking book, you'll discover why fiat currency is inherently flawed, how central banks manipulate markets, and why every economic crisis seems to benefit the wealthy while punishing the rest. This isn't just theory. It's the ...
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Knowing Enough
- A Conversation About Money and Life and Figuring Out What to Do with Yours
- By: John C. Bogle, William Bernstein
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Knowing Enough combines the penetrating insights into investing and life of John C. Bogle, the founder of Vanguard and the pioneer of index investing, and the priceless practical advice of William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Four Pillars of Investing and market historian. Their conversations were the centerpiece of Boglehead meetings until Bogle's passing on January 19, 2019.
By: John C. Bogle, and others
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Buffett and Munger Unscripted
- Three Decades of Investment and Business Insights from the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meetings
- By: Alex W. Morris
- Narrated by: Adam Sims, Ian Porter, Robert Slade
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, thousands of people have gathered in Omaha, Nebraska for the Berkshire Hathaway AGM, and quizzed Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on everything from the psychology of successful investors to the future of Coca-Cola and Apple. But unless you attended, for many years you only had access to what people could remember and report back from the meetings.
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Nice review of Charlie and Warren at the meeting
- By Amazon Customer on 03-25-25
By: Alex W. Morris
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The Fund
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
- By: Rob Copeland
- Narrated by: Rob Copeland, Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Ray Dalio does not want you to listen to this audiobook. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles.
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Best finance book I've read in years
- By Aaron on 12-16-23
By: Rob Copeland
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This Time Is Different
- Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
- By: Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing - and recovering -their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" - claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This book proves that premise wrong.
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necessary piece to understand the current crisis
- By D. Littman on 12-04-09
By: Carmen Reinhart, and others
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The AI-Driven Leader
- Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
- By: Geoff Woods
- Narrated by: Geoff Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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The difference between growing your business and going out of business is your ability to think strategically. The problem is, most leaders are stuck in the operational weeds, struggling to find the time to make better strategic decisions. This challenge is only heightened by the rise of AI. While you know AI is the future, current demands leave you with no time to explore its benefits. Meanwhile, your competition is gaining an edge by integrating AI. The time to act is now.
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Top Book on Ai
- By JSprinkles on 02-09-25
By: Geoff Woods
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- By Joshua Kim on 05-01-12
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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The Optimist
- By: Keach Hagey
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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In The Optimist, the Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey presents the most detailed account yet of Altman’s rise, from his precocious childhood in St. Louis to his first, failed startup experience; his time as legendary entrepreneur Paul Graham’s protégé and successor as head of Y Combinator, the start-up accelerator where Altman became the premier power broker in Silicon Valley; the founding of OpenAI and his recruitment of a small yet superior team; and his struggle to keep his company at the cutting edge while fending off determined rivals, including Elon Musk.
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The author is a big fan of Sam
- By Timpboy on 06-28-25
By: Keach Hagey
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Princípios
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Tarcísio Pureza
- Length: 18 hrs and 47 mins
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Para Ray Dalio, vida, gestão, economia e investimentos podem ser sistematizados em regras. Entre as centenas de lições do livro, erguidas em torno de seus alicerces de “verdade radical” e “transparência radical”, Dalio oferece uma abordagem clara e direta para a tomada de decisões e ensinamentos valiosos para a formação de equipes sólidas e eficientes.
By: Ray Dalio
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Abundance
- By: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Narrated by: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis. After years of limiting immigration, we don’t have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget—if they are ever finished at all.
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Advice to the Democratic Party from Klein & Thompson
- By Betsy Fowler on 03-31-25
By: Ezra Klein, and others
Must-read for investment professionals
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A must read
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Highly recommend to anyone that is interested in economics or wants to understand more about global economics and its impact to daily life.
Excellent explanation to today’s global economy
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A Must Read to UNDERSTAND principles and their application
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Excellent Read
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Guiding light for making sense out of today’s geopolitics
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A lesson in learning from history
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Pays to go with Ray
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Big cycle
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Horrible narration
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