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Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, & Microsoft’s Biggest Ever Buyback

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, Investing, Business, News

4494 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In an extended interview, founder of Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio outlines his strategy for diversifying his portfolio, from the stock market to gold and cryptocurrencies. Dalio discusses the global and domestic market risks, warns investors away from cash, and considers a conflicted future for capitalism. At the Skybridge Alternatives Conference in New York, Andrew Ross Sorkin sits down with Ray Dalio and, later, former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. Dr. Gottlieb considers a future of low-Covid-risk conferences like SALT, and a timeline for child vaccines. Plus, Microsoft is buying back $60 billion in MSFT stock

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bring in show music please.

0:03.0

This is Squawk Pod.

0:06.0

I'm C NBC producer Katie Kramer.

0:08.0

Today on our podcast.

0:10.0

The man, the investor, the legend, Bridew Ray Dahlio, tells us what he starts with.

0:15.5

I think it's worth considering all the alternatives to cash.

0:19.6

I have a certain amount of money in Bitcoin.

0:22.2

It's a small percentage of that which I have in

0:24.4

gold, which is a relatively small percentage of what I have in my other asset classes.

0:30.1

The state of your portfolio and the state of the states.

0:34.0

We certainly have kind of a war developing between the various factions, the state and so on,

0:40.0

and how that will be resolved.

0:42.0

COVID's continuing impact on the economy and, well, life.

0:46.0

Former FDA head Scott Gottley.

0:48.0

We're going to have to learn how to live with this.

0:50.0

This is going to become an endemic virus and we're going to have to learn how to assimilate daily

0:54.4

risk into our lives.

0:56.5

Those stories plus the rest of today's headlines that got a squawking.

1:00.8

It's Wednesday, September 15, 2021.

1:03.7

Squawk Pod begins right now.

1:06.1

Stand Becky by in three, two, one, fuel, brief.

1:10.6

Good morning everybody.

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