Wealth vs. Money

2026-02-27

The most important early lesson I learned was to write down my criteria for making investment decisions so that I could turn them into decision rules.

That’s because I discovered I could express my decision-making criteria in the form of algorithms that I could embed into computers. By running both decision-making systems — i.e., mine in my head and mine in the computer — next to each other, I learned the computer could make better decisions than me because it could process vastly more information than I could, and it could do it faster and unemotionally.

That insight helped me get out of my own head and make better decisions over time. @nikhil.kamath

2026-02-04

Is it harder to start today? 📉

The truth is, the environment has changed. You need more resources for compliance and regulation than I did when I started. But the core principle remains: Money follows talent.
If you have the ideas and can demonstrate the logic behind them, the capital will find you. That’s how I went from playing the markets as a kid to managing an account for the World Bank.

Are you focused on the money, or are you focused on the talent? Let me know in the comments. 👇

2026-01-26

It’s now happening. The existing fiat monetary order, the domestic political order, and the international geopolitical order are all breaking down, so we are at the brink of wars. It all is happening because of the Big Cycle that is driven by the five big forces I’ve described repeatedly and laid out in detail in my book and Youtube video titled Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order.

2026-01-22

The changing monetary order and the changing geopolitical order clearly came together at Davos and especially at the moment of President Trump’s speech. President Trump’s threats to impose trade war punishments and to use military war were red lines for European leaders that would have led them to respond with capital war actions on purchases of US assets, especially debt assets, and trade war tariff retaliation. President Trump’s speech was a stepping back from crossing that red line.

#WEF26 #raydalio

2026-01-16

I think it’s safe to say that 2025 was a very interesting year. And I think I see it very differently than most.

You probably saw a lot of headlines about AI and tech stocks. While that was a big story, I don’t think it was the most important thing.

The big story in the investment world was the depreciation of the value of fiat money and how that impacted the price of gold.

That’s how 2025 looked through my eyes, at least. I’m curious to hear if you see things the same way.

You can find my article “2025” on LinkedIn and X.

2025-12-11

1,000 meters below sea level, there’s an entire world that’s never been explored.

There’s so much going on in our ocean’s — species we haven’t discovered, behavior we’ve never seen. That’s why I’m so passionate about ocean research, and why I decided to build @OceanX .

I’m so excited that our team at gets to play a part in bringing it to all of you. And I hope some of you find it as thrilling as I do. #oceanexploration #oceanx

2025-12-10

I’ve been using AI to help my decision-making for over 30 years. It’s a big part of what made Bridgewater successful.

I found that if I wrote down my criteria for making decisions and put them into algorithms, the computer could process far more information far more quickly than I could on my own. Alongside my logic and inspiration, it was a great partnership.

I started doing this in my investment decision-making, but soon incorporated it into my broader decision-making, as well. (By the way, that investment decision-making is what made Bridgewater so successful.) LLMs have made this process even more seamless and useful.

If you’re interested in trying out my beta AI tool, you can find it at the link below.

2025-10-24

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