# @RayDalio on Twitter/X

- **Type:** Text
- **Original URL:** https://twitter.com/RayDalio/status/1924452875108839862
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31027262-RayDalio-twitter
- **Posted:** 2025-05-19T13:11:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ray Dalio (@RayDalio) — https://gondola.cc/RayDalio

## Caption

Re the U.S. debt downgrade, you should know that credit ratings understate credit risks because they only rate the risk of the government not paying its debt. They don't include the greater risk that the countries in debt will print money to pay their debts thus causing holders

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## Tags

debt, principles, howcountriesgobroke

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