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There are various interviews with the author (Rob Copeland). It sounds like Dalio killed his puppy. I don't know what happened but Copeland seems to hate him.

There are various interviews with the author (Rob Copeland). It sounds like Dalio killed his puppy. I don't know what happened but Copeland seems to hate him. In interviews he mostly seems level headed, but intermittently he lets the façade drop. I do wonder how he is getting the funds for such a media blitz. Does he have a tremendous number of friends in the media, is he independently wealthy, or is someone backing him?

renewiltord 3y ago
He’s releasing a new book. Anyone promoting this is just a host for a parasitic meme. Stop the spread.
6stringmerc 3y ago
Uh, Ray Dalio has been known to be a "piece of work" even in the finance industry for well over a decade. He was making headlines for being a self-important pseudo-intellectual-swami back when I was working munis around 2008. It's not just this author - ahem, I'll take a crack at it: Ray Dalio is a perfect example of a person being analytically and synthetically successful and otherwise covering for severe character defects like Steve Jobs and in the big picture guys look like him are a fucking joke and anybody who takes them seriously as "leaders" should be smacked around a few times with a hardcover biography of Teddy Roosevelt. Dalio might not be able to juggle but he's still a clown who gets clicks.
- michtzik 3y ago
  Saying Ray Dalio is a "fucking joke" like Steve Jobs isn't the burn you think it is.
  - 6stringmerc 3y ago
    No, Steve was a textbook sociopath and I'm glad that motherfucker is dead so he can't steal any more livers from deserving people. Steve isn't really a joke unless you like "That isn't my daughter" and "Haha I conspire to keep wages down" and "fuck musicians I need a yacht" is comedy. I can go on and on because I'm glad he never got to see that yacht. He was a cancer. Intellectual cancer.
mountainb 3y ago
Dalio is pro-China or rather, a representative of the mainstream of other business leaders who are also pro-normal-relations-with-China. But he is not as politically connected as some of the other business leaders who are pro-China. So, he is a political target of convenience for various interests that want to rattle the saber at China. The foreign policy media is more or less directly controlled by some mixture of the intelligence agencies, the military, and the State Department, so things like this are an indirect attempt to apply discipline. Worth pointing out here that Lee Kuan Yew is perhaps the most widely praised leader of his generation. I read a book about him a couple years ago that was prefaced with endorsements from every president going back to Carter, every major Sec. of State, and so on and so forth. Trying to portray praise of Lee Kuan Yew as unhinged is itself unhinged.
- throw0101c 3y ago
  > Dalio is pro-China […] For example: > Dalio, 72, has a deep respect for the country and its leaders, people who know him said. He once even organized a group meant to govern Bridgewater and named it the Politburo, after the Chinese government’s decision-making body. * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-20/dalio-s-china-fascination-predates-ties-to-beijing-s-billions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-20/dalio-s-c... * https://archive.li/c03mR https://archive.li/c03mR (Note that "Politburo" was used in many/most Communist countries, not just China.)
- esafak 3y ago
  I don't know about that. Yew was a paternalist modernizer. We should not be lauding paternalism among adults, even if we agree with the ends. Banning the chewing of gum, to take an example, is to me an unacceptable encroachment of civil liberties.
c22 3y ago
I heard an interview with him where he said that before he even started writing the book he was receiving legal threats from Dalio's lawyers and is currently embroiled in a lawsuit, so I could see there being some animosity there.
throw0101c 3y ago
> In interviews he mostly seems level headed, but intermittently he lets the façade drop. Is the "he" here referring to billionaire Ray Dalio or author Rob Copeland? :)
meeuwer 3y ago
Don’t know about the guy, but the outlet seems spook-infested. Bigwigs connected to the Council on Foreign Relations, the German Marshall Fund, etc. By definition they have and promote a US-exceptionalist worldview. Apparently, Dalio’s openly realpolitik business approach is a thorn in their side. https://www.semafor.com/about https://www.semafor.com/about

renewiltord 3y ago

He’s releasing a new book. Anyone promoting this is just a host for a parasitic meme. Stop the spread.

6stringmerc 3y ago

Uh, Ray Dalio has been known to be a "piece of work" even in the finance industry for well over a decade. He was making headlines for being a self-important pseudo-intellectual-swami back when I was working munis around 2008. It's not just this author - ahem, I'll take a crack at it: Ray Dalio is a perfect example of a person being analytically and synthetically successful and otherwise covering for severe character defects like Steve Jobs and in the big picture guys look like him are a fucking joke and anybody who takes them seriously as "leaders" should be smacked around a few times with a hardcover biography of Teddy Roosevelt. Dalio might not be able to juggle but he's still a clown who gets clicks.

michtzik 3y ago
Saying Ray Dalio is a "fucking joke" like Steve Jobs isn't the burn you think it is.
- 6stringmerc 3y ago
  No, Steve was a textbook sociopath and I'm glad that motherfucker is dead so he can't steal any more livers from deserving people. Steve isn't really a joke unless you like "That isn't my daughter" and "Haha I conspire to keep wages down" and "fuck musicians I need a yacht" is comedy. I can go on and on because I'm glad he never got to see that yacht. He was a cancer. Intellectual cancer.

mountainb 3y ago

Dalio is pro-China or rather, a representative of the mainstream of other business leaders who are also pro-normal-relations-with-China. But he is not as politically connected as some of the other business leaders who are pro-China. So, he is a political target of convenience for various interests that want to rattle the saber at China. The foreign policy media is more or less directly controlled by some mixture of the intelligence agencies, the military, and the State Department, so things like this are an indirect attempt to apply discipline. Worth pointing out here that Lee Kuan Yew is perhaps the most widely praised leader of his generation. I read a book about him a couple years ago that was prefaced with endorsements from every president going back to Carter, every major Sec. of State, and so on and so forth. Trying to portray praise of Lee Kuan Yew as unhinged is itself unhinged.

throw0101c 3y ago
> Dalio is pro-China […] For example: > Dalio, 72, has a deep respect for the country and its leaders, people who know him said. He once even organized a group meant to govern Bridgewater and named it the Politburo, after the Chinese government’s decision-making body. * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-20/dalio-s-china-fascination-predates-ties-to-beijing-s-billions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-20/dalio-s-c... * https://archive.li/c03mR https://archive.li/c03mR (Note that "Politburo" was used in many/most Communist countries, not just China.)
esafak 3y ago
I don't know about that. Yew was a paternalist modernizer. We should not be lauding paternalism among adults, even if we agree with the ends. Banning the chewing of gum, to take an example, is to me an unacceptable encroachment of civil liberties.

c22 3y ago

I heard an interview with him where he said that before he even started writing the book he was receiving legal threats from Dalio's lawyers and is currently embroiled in a lawsuit, so I could see there being some animosity there.

throw0101c 3y ago

> In interviews he mostly seems level headed, but intermittently he lets the façade drop. Is the "he" here referring to billionaire Ray Dalio or author Rob Copeland? :)

meeuwer 3y ago

Don’t know about the guy, but the outlet seems spook-infested. Bigwigs connected to the Council on Foreign Relations, the German Marshall Fund, etc. By definition they have and promote a US-exceptionalist worldview. Apparently, Dalio’s openly realpolitik business approach is a thorn in their side. https://www.semafor.com/about https://www.semafor.com/about