The True Source of My Motivation

2025-11-18

I’ve taken my best-selling book “Principles” and distilled it into a video mini-series that focuses on the life principles that have helped me the most. This will especially help those who are graduating this Spring and entering “the real world.”

This is Episode 1: The Call to Adventure, I hope you find these helpful.

2025-10-10

One of my principles is that if you’re worried, you don’t need to worry — and if you’re not worried, you need to worry.

That’s because worrying about what can go wrong will protect you and not worrying about what can go wrong will leave you exposed.

2025-10-08

The way I see it, any serious effort to solve the debt crisis will likely come too late.

It’s a timing issue. 2026 is a midterm election year — politicians won’t want to take the painful steps needed to improve our economic picture: cutting spending, raising taxes, and the like.

Any sort of bipartisan effort that comes after will both take time and be unlikely to be effective, because those commissions generally don’t work very well in practice.

That’s what it looks like to me. I’m curious to hear if you see things similarly.

@TheProfGPod

You can watch the full conversation here: _JLSAat94?si=AIGAM6BTiw7ZWCCC

2025-09-29

This simple animated video series answers the question, "How does the #economy really work?" Based on my practical template for understanding the economy.

This series breaks down economic concepts like #credit, #deficits and #interest rates, allowing viewers to learn the basic driving forces behind the economy, how economic policies work and why economic cycles occur.

This is Part 4, I hope you find these helpful.

2025-06-17

We’re entering a period of history where countries must be much more self-sufficient.

Not just because of the debt and trade issues — and those imbalances are unsustainable — but also because of security.

With today’s geopolitical instability, a country like the U.S. can’t afford to be be dependent on imports from countries like China.

As a result, restructuring our trade relationships is critical and necessary.

At least, that’s what it looks like through my eyes. I’m curious to hear if you agree.

#raydalio #howcountriesgobroke #geopolitics #trade

2025-06-10

What’s happening now with money, debt, and credit has never happened before in our lifetime.

But it has happened many times in history, which is why I believe studying the past is so important. The same cycles repeat over and over again, and there are important lessons we can learn from those experiences.

If we apply that understanding to the issues we face today, we can increase the chances of positive geopolitical and economic outcomes. That’s good for all of us.

I enjoyed meeting with @imf to discuss this and answer questions about my new book, which dives deeper into these topics. It’s called How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle, and it’s available now.

If you’re interested in learning more about our collective debt burden — and what steps we can take to solve these issues —

2025-06-05

If I had to pick the most important chapter from my new book, How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle, this would be it. In fact, I think it’s so important that I wanted to make sure it was easily accessible for anyone who might be interested.

Because once you understand the big cycle and how it works, watching events unfold is like watching a movie that you have seen many times before.

That’s because the big cycle is a dynamic that has worked in the same basic way for thousands of years in all countries, driven by the same logical cause-effect relationships. Throughout history, certain forces have come together to drive these cycles and dramatically change the world order.

If you’re interested in learning more, you can buy the book on Amazon