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The Big Cycle: How Great Powers Rise
Principles by Ray Dalio· 2025-07-28 13:53
Now, I'll take you through the big cycle in more detail. Give me 20 minutes and I'll give you the last 500 years of history and show you the similar patterns across the Dutch, British, US, and Chinese empires. 500 years of big cycles.I'm going to describe the typical cycle by dividing it into three phases. The rise, the top, and the decline. The rise.Successful new waters that rise, both internal and external, are typically started by powerful revolutionary leaders doing four things. First, they win power b ...
Ray Dalio's the Big Cycle Explained in 3 Minutes
Principles by Ray Dalio· 2025-05-28 18:44
I want to explain the big cycle just in you know very simple terms. Uh the big cycle is like uh the period from one period of great change and turbulence in which various systems or orders are changed through fighting typically and then through that evolutionary process there is a process that gets us to another period of breakdown. The last big cycle began in 1945 at the end of World War II.In that world order, there are shorter term cycles like the economic and political cycles. The economic cycles have l ...