Ray Dalio (@RayDalio) — Twitter Score 596 out of 1000

Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and previously worked there as Founder and CIO Mentor before completing a full operational and equity exit from the firm in July 2025, when the Brunei Investment Agency acquired his final equity stake. He is the author of Principles, a number one New York Times bestseller. Ray Dalio's Twitter Score is 596 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #200 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform.

Ray Dalio has an estimated net worth of approximately $21.5 billion as of 2026, placing him at rank 126 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index following his full Bridgewater divestiture. His macro commentary is grounded in a framework he calls the Big Cycle, which frames the current period as a simultaneous breakdown of the monetary, political, and geopolitical world order. In a June 2025 LinkedIn essay titled "How Countries Go Broke", he argued for underweighting debt assets and overweighting gold, with a small Bitcoin allocation. In an October 2025 TIME essay, "Gold Is the Safest Money", he ranked gold above Bitcoin as the monetary asset least at risk of devaluation or confiscation, citing Bitcoin's transparent ledger, its lack of central bank backing, and potential quantum computing risk.

Ray Dalio holds approximately 1% of his own portfolio in Bitcoin, treating it as a small diversification against dollar debasement while consistently favoring gold as the primary monetary hedge. In July 2025, he recommended that investors allocate approximately 15% of their portfolios to gold and/or Bitcoin as protection against US dollar debasement driven by rising federal debt and deficits, citing a debt doom loop dynamic. In May 2026, he stated that Bitcoin transactions can be monitored and potentially controlled, identifying this as a central reason he believes central banks are unwilling to hold Bitcoin as a reserve asset. Ray Dalio has 2,306,345 followers as of July 2026 on X and has published 7,432 posts. He has been mentioned by 1,158 accounts, with 2,778 total mentions across the platform.

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