{"id":4436,"date":"2012-03-19T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2012-03-19T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:46:17","slug":"ray-dalio-a-template-for-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4436","title":{"rendered":"Ray Dalio: A template for Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwater.com\/home\/research--press\/a-template-for-understanding--papers.aspx\">Ray Dalio<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> A Template for Understanding&#8230;<br \/>\n\u2026How the Economic Machine Works and How it is Reflected Now<br \/>\nRay Dalio  |  October 2008 (Updated March 2012): The economy is like a machine.  At the most fundamental level it is a relatively simple machine, yet it is not well understood.  I wrote this paper to describe how I believe it works.  My description is not the same as conventional economists&#8217; descriptions so you should decide for yourself whether or not what I&#8217;m saying makes sense.  I will start with the simple things and build up, so please bear with me.  I believe that you will be able to understand and assess my description if we patiently go through it.<\/p>\n<p>An In-Depth Look at Deleveragings<br \/>\nRay Dalio  |  February, 2012: The purpose of this paper is to show the compositions of past deleveragings and, through this process, to convey in-depth, how the deleveraging process works.<\/p>\n<p>Why Countries Succeed and Fail Economically<br \/>\nRay Dalio  |  June, 2011: This study looks at how different countries\u2019 shares of the world economy have changed and why these changes have occurred, with a particular emphasis on the period since 1820. As explained in this study, the rises and declines in countries\u2019 shares of the world economy occur as a result of very long-term cycles that are not apparent to observers who look at economic conditions from a close-up perspective.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Dalio: A Template for Understanding&#8230; \u2026How the Economic Machine Works and How it is Reflected Now Ray Dalio | October 2008 (Updated March 2012): The economy is like a machine. At the most fundamental level it is a relatively simple machine, yet it is not well understood. I wrote this paper to describe how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}