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Billionaire Ray Dalio warns U.S. debt puts global economy on the brink

On Wednesday, billionaire investor Ray Dalio warned that the United States is entering a "particularly risky period" as rising national debt and political instability converge.

He predicts a potential "economic heart attack" between 2026 and 2028 because foreign investors are becoming increasingly reluctant to hold American Treasury bonds. This reluctance stems from a massive supply-demand imbalance, where the government must issue more debt than the global market is willing to buy at current interest rates. Investors in major global markets like India and Canada are being told to prepare for currency volatility and a massive withdrawal of foreign capital if the U.S. dollar weakens.

Analysts will now be watching upcoming Treasury auctions to see if big international buyers continue to pull back from American debt.

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 @BF4NNZDNo Labelsfrom Maine  commented…19hrs19H

US should shrink its military to cut debt.

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 @BF4K7WV from Texas  commented…1 day1D

To me this is the most important news topic because it concerns the global economy, while the others, yes while still important, it doesn't concern the worlds economy; it concerns its own division.

 @BF4T8GK from Texas  commented…10hrs10H

Ray Dalio’s warning about a potential “capital war” isn’t something to ignore, and a lot of economists took it seriously because it connects two major pressures happening at the same time: record‑high U.S. debt and intensifying global trade conflicts. I don’t take political positions myself, but I can break down why many analysts think his concern is worth paying attention to and why others think the situation is more manageable. You can decide where you land.

 @BF4JX8F from Colorado  commented…1 day1D

The republic is in managed decline

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Elizabeth Warren Walks Back Murder Comments

Congressional Democrats broadly denounced the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Friday morning, after Republicans started accusing Sen. Elizabeth Warren of excusing violence.“No one's condoning this,” said Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.). “Violence never is the right answer for anything. And it was a horrible murder, a tragic loss for his family.” Warren this week condemned the shooting, but added that people “can be pushed only so far.”"We'll say it over and over," Warren said on MSNBC’S “The ReidOut.” " Violence is never the answer. This guy [Luigi Mangione] gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."In a statement to POLITICO, Warren said, “Violence is never the answer. Period. I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.” Top Republicans denounced Warren's comments and the walked-back rhetoric, with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) calling it “inappropriate and dangerous.”Some House Democrats asked about the incident on Thursday pivoted the conversation to discuss policy options on health care or gun safety.“I don't really know that this is really a space that Congress normally weighs in on,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). “But at the end of the day, I think it’s an opportunity, because now people are talking about health care and to talk about the fact that this industry has honestly not been as helpful as it could be.”“Violence is never the answer,” said Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.). “We know that there are people suffering, there’s great challenges in healthcare. There's great challenges, and people have, in fact, been wronged, but a process of governance is the way to address that, not violence.”And Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) who denounced the murder, said the killer should be prosecuted and that “I do know that allegedly a ghost gun was used, and we should also ban ghost guns. There's no reason for them beyond the streets.”

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Israeli Bombings Kill 2,300 In Lebanon in 3 weeks

Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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