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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: AlphaWolf 🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Our “Suez Moment”?
Date: 06/26/26 8:49 AM
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"Watch out for allies and creditors losing confidence, the loss of its reserve currency status, the selling of its debt assets, and the weakening of its currency, especially relative to gold."

Ray Dalio didn't write that sentence about Britain in 1956. He wrote it about the United States in March 2026. But the parallel he was drawing was unmistakable — and deliberate. The Bridgewater Associates founder and Fortune contributor, who has spent decades mapping the rise and fall of reserve-currency empires over 500 years of history, traced back to a single afternoon in November 1956 to explain what he believed was happening in real time to the most powerful country on earth.


Given the ignorance and incompetence of everyone in this administration, fortified by the obsequiousness of the Republican Party, this remains a serious and genuine concern.

finance.yahoo.com - Ray dalio says u just
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