Bridgewater Strategy Memo Monitors Societal Leverage

A Bridgewater strategy document reviewed by ValueWalk shows the importance of leverage in the U.S. economy and how certain players are keeping an eye on all developments in this realm.

The report first addresses how the government successfully avoided a near term debt entanglement in the aftermath of the 2008 derivatives crash, but then points to a problem down the road.

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Bridgewater: The government debt burden

In the wake of the 2008, U.S. government debt burden exploded as the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department jointly fought to protect the private sector credit markets, which had frozen. This occurred as...