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‘No Privacy’ CBDCs Will Come, Warns Billionaire Ray Dalio

‘No Privacy’ CBDCs Will Come, Warns Billionaire Ray Dalio

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, American billionaire and hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has warned that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are coming, offering benefits but also potentially allowing governments to exert more control over people’s finances. “I think it will be done,” said Dalio on CBDCs in a wide-ranging interview on the Tucker Carlson Show on Monday, which also included topics on the US debt crisis, gold prices, and even a potential civil war.  Ray Dalio is a billionaire hedge fund manager who has been co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates since 1985, after founding the firm in 1975.  During the interview, Dalio said CBDCs could be appealing due to the ease of transactions, likening them to money market funds in terms of functionality, but he also cautioned about their downsides. He said there will be a debate, but CBDCs “probably won’t” offer interest, so they will not be “an effective vehicle to hold because you’ll have the depreciation [of the dollar].” Dalio also cautioned that all CBDC transactions will be known to the government, …

AI boom is in early bubble phase, Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio says

AI boom is in early bubble phase, Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio says

Published by Sam Flores

Jan 5 : The ‌artificial intelligence boom that powered Wall Street’s technology stocks is “now in the early stages of a bubble,” hedge fund manager Ray Dalio warned in a post on social media platform X on Monday. Wall Street’s main indexes posted double-digit gains in 2025, marking a third straight year of advances, a run last seen during 2019–2021. The gains were fueled by ‌heavy investor demand for AI-linked stocks, which pushed U.S. ‌equity benchmarks to record highs. Dalio, who co-founded hedge fund Bridgewater Associates in 1975, said U.S. stocks significantly underperformed non-U.S. equities and gold in 2025. Gold surged more than 60 per cent last year, while emerging markets posted a banner year and Britain’s blue-chip FTSE 100 outperformed major global markets. “Clearly, investors would have much rather been in ‍non-U.S. stocks than in U.S. stocks, just as they would have preferred to be in non-U.S. bonds than in U.S. bonds and U.S. cash,” he wrote in the post. Global stocks seesawed in the fall as mounting concern over a potential AI stock …