Ray Dalio
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Because if you don't have that, then you have a form of revolution and you don't have good management.
And that's the greatest risk, I would say, politically.
When you say who has done it well, what do you mean?
Well, an example of well would be the differences in the way Roosevelt did it.
So again, 1929 to 32, interest rates hit zero.
They print money.
We had a large wealth gap and then they sat down and they figured out how do we keep it orderly and how do we change the circumstances with whether it's taxes or how do you reorganize it so that the system works well.
There is a risk also at the same time because the world is going through that.
There's a risk of conflict.
So in Germany,
Hitler came in power in 1933, and he came in power in 1933 because there was a lot of internal fighting as to try to bring, produce order, because everybody, the left and the right, you know, the communists and the fascists, and they're all fighting about wealth, because everybody's fighting about wealth when you have a downturn.
And then they need, they were democracies, four democracies existed then,
that chose not to be democracies because they became so disorderly that they wanted some strong leader to take charge and run the country.
And then, of course, we had a bunch of those types of leaders, and then they had a war.
That's how World War II happened.
So when you look at that, you know, that's kind of the political landscape.
But back to the average man in terms of his finances, I would say the important thing is those three elements to have a plan and maybe to have a plan with both your family.
You know, how do you get down when things got tough and, you know, and then you have to look at
You know, what happens in policy?
Well, policy is it depends on the person.