Ray Dalio says America is facing a ‘debt death spiral’ — but you can protect your portfolio with these 3 assets

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• The fine art market has an estimated value of over $2.5 trillion and is projected to reach nearly $3.5 trillion by 2030

  80% confidence

• Nearly 50% of Americans are making one big Social Security mistake

  80% confidence

• A 25% portfolio allocation to gold is not excessive and gold is an insurance policy likely to remain in a winning mode amid ongoing dollar weakness

  80% confidence

• America is facing a 'debt death spiral' where the government must borrow just to pay the interest on existing debt, and this process accelerates over time

  80% confidence

• The world is on the brink of a 'capital war' stemming from ongoing geopolitical tensions, where money is being weaponized by various global powers

  80% confidence

• One asset will surge 400% in a year

  80% confidence

• The current economic situation is very much like the early 1970s

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• If investors begin to believe the Fed will artificially hold rates too low, it could trigger an unhealthy decline in the value of money

  80% confidence

• Gold is a very excellent diversifier of the portfolio and you would probably have something like 15% of your portfolio in gold because it is the one asset that does very well when the typical parts of your portfolio go down

  80% confidence

• If a politically weakened Federal Reserve lets inflation run hot, it would lead bonds and the dollar to go down in value, and if not rectified, would lead to them being an ineffective storehold of wealth and the breaking down of the monetary order

  80% confidence

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