Ray Dalio

The yield on 30-year US government bonds has reached a two-decade high. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has initiated a bond buyback program to stabilize the market, while investor Ray Dalio warns that structural reforms are essential to avoid a crisis.

Giant investors like Ray Dalio, Jeffrey Gundlach, and Prof. Kenneth Rogoff believe that America has entered a critical phase at the end of which the government will struggle to finance its debt, the dollar's purchasing power will be cut, and its status as the dominant global power will be lost. There is a belief that the process could happen in just a few years. Why does the US have one of the...