Rewind: Ray Dalio Reveals The Secrets of His Investing Success

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Welcome to the premiere episode of Iconoclast with Maneet Ahuja! For the first ever Forbes Iconoclast podcast, host and Forbes Editor-at-Large Maneet Ahuja sits down with legendary investor Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates—the world’s largest hedge fund. Recorded live at the NASDAQ market site, Dalio issues an urgent, unvarnished warning about the global economic landscape and the future of wealth. Dalio also discusses his latest book, How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle, which aims to convey the mechanics of the process behind why countries go broke and unveils the leadership strategy to which he attributes his firm's outsized success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.9	technology war. We are in a capital war. We are in a geopolitical influence war. And that, of course,
1:09.6	is very relevant to the whole picture.
1:13.6	Welcome. I'm Minita Huja, editor at large at Forbes, and founder of Iconiclast,
1:18.6	and we're here at the NASDAQ market site. We're joined by none other than legendary investor,
1:25.6	Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest
1:29.1	hedge fund with over $150 billion in assets under management.
1:33.2	Ray has been one of the world's leading macroeconomic investors for over 50 years.
1:38.3	Bridgewater famously banked profits off of the 1987 market crash and 2008 financial crisis.
1:45.0	He's the author of several books, including the number one New York Times bestseller principles.
1:50.0	His latest book, Why Countries Go Broke, The Big Cycle, recently came out this spring.
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