Ray Dalio on Trump’s tariffs

CNBC, Released on 4/8/25

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the fallout from President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, impact on markets and businesses, bringing manufacturing back to the U.S., state of U.S.-China trade relations, importance of a diversified portfolio, and more.

Ray Dalio is an American businessman and founder of the investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. In 2012, Dalio appeared on the annual Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2011 and 2012 he was listed by Bloomberg Markets as one of the 50 Most Influential people. Institutional Investor’s Alpha ranked him No. 2 on their 2012 Rich List. Dalio has been labeled the Steve Jobs of investing. Ray’s latest book is Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail.

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Igby MacDavitt

So Ray Dalio says, and I paraphrase, ‘Yeah, I agree with the problems we face as a non-manufacturing country filled with citizens who can’t even read and a debt load that is astronomical, but this regime is simply shitting the bed in its approach to fixing it’.

Just saved you 8.5 minutes. :)

Karl Graz

That’s a wonderful description of our nation by Ray Dalio, unfortunately he left out one very important fact….we’re exceptional!