Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it’s a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
RAY DALIOOver the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.
More Ray Dalio Quotes
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Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
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The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.
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Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.
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That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
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I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.
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If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
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The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it’s silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).
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Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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Though how nature works is way beyond man’s ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
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Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there’s an education level that plays into the mix and so if it’s inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
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I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.
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Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.
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Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I’ve had.
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There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.
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Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
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