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Ray Dalio Gives Larry Summers An Economic Lesson

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Mark Melin
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In a recent post on Linkedin, Ray Dalio, the largest hedge fund manager in the world, thought it appropriate to explain “why he talked with Larry Summers about the economic machine.”

Ray Dalio, promoting his Podcast on the subject, explained that he accepted an invitation by Summers, who teaches at Harvard, to come to the school and discuss the issues. “I feel a responsibility to share my template in order to help people avoid financial crises like the one that occurred in the U.S. in 2008,” Ray Dalio wrote.

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Although the podcast doesn’t directly address the issue, in 2008 unregulated...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.