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Testing Dalio's debt crisis warning

The host argued that Ray Dalio's warning of an imminent U.S. Treasury debt crisis is testable against market evidence, and the current data does not support the claim of a buyer strike.

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CONTESTED · 273 MENTIONS · 188 EPISODES · 33 SHOWS

9 JUL 2025 — 26 AUG 2026 · YESTERDAY

79 SUPPORT · 35 CHALLENGE · 2 REPEAT · 157 MENTIONED

9 JUL 2025 · FIRST HEARD
GRANT'S CURRENT YIELD PODCAST
- Fade the three Fed rate cuts priced for 2024
53 EPISODES BETWEEN · 76 MENTIONS · 128 NOT KEPT
1. 128 EPISODES NOT SHOWN
2. 31 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Fed credibility issues over policy inconsistencies
3. 31 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  CNBC FAST MONEY
  - Fed opacity risks increased market volatility
4. 31 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  MARKETPLACE
  - Fed credibility questioned on inflation resolve
5. 1 AUG 2026 · 4W AGO
  THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW · 2 MENTIONS
  - Path to Fed credibility: hike rates, shrink balance sheet · CHALLENGES
  - Treasury is the dog, Fed is the tail
6. 1 AUG 2026 · 4W AGO
  WSJ WHAT'S NEWS
  - Fed rate hike bets push Treasury yields up
7. 2 AUG 2026 · 4W AGO
  MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY
  - Walsh's Fed focused on market reform, not hikes
8. 3 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  FORWARD GUIDANCE · 3 MENTIONS
  - Fed's new lever: long-end yields over short rates
  - Long-term bond yields may be near a top · CHALLENGES
  - Warsh using balance sheet to tighten long end
9. 3 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Market steepening yield curve doing Fed's job
10. 3 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  MOTLEY FOOL MONEY
  - Fed credibility loss, not high rates, is the risk
11. 3 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THE DIVIDEND CAFE
  - Fed balance sheet expansion equivalent to a rate cut
12. 4 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW
  - Fed's narrow policy window risks control loss
13. 4 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  WEALTHION - BE FINANCIALLY RESILIENT
  - Fed behind the curve, facing multiple hikes
14. 5 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  FORWARD GUIDANCE
  - Fed's intentional steepening to tighten policy
15. 5 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THOUGHTFUL MONEY
  - Higher for longer rates due to structural forces
16. 5 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Rise in long-term yields driven by real yields, not inflation fears
17. 5 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THE DIVIDEND CAFE
  - Fed cannot return to a freely floating rate
18. 6 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Bond market tightening financial conditions for Fed
19. 6 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 2 MENTIONS
  - Fed should exit mortgage-backed securities
  - Warsh's hawkish reform faces political debt reality
20. 6 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  CNBC FAST MONEY
  - Fed's September hike hinges on inflation data
21. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Soft jobs report shifts Fed calculus toward hold
22. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Higher yields and steeper curve warranted
23. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Bond volatility at historic lows
24. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO · CHALLENGES
  WHAT BITCOIN DID
  - Fed pause, not hike, is the bullish macro setup
25. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  MOTLEY FOOL MONEY
  - Jobs report signals Fed inaction
26. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  MARKETPLACE · 2 MENTIONS
  - Fed's focus may shift from inflation to jobs
  - FOMC members filling forward guidance vacuum
27. 8 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW
  - Return of financial repression to manage US debt
28. 8 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THOUGHTFUL MONEY
  - Fed rate hike odds recede on weak payrolls
29. 9 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 5 MENTIONS
  - Fed must appease bond market or face 6% yields
  - Market correction likely on Fed policy shift
  - Fed must regain inflation credibility
  - Treasury's dovish financing may bail out markets
  - Productivity surge enables dovish pivot
30. 10 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  MACRO MUSINGS WITH DAVID BECKWORTH · 2 MENTIONS
  - R-double-star as a financial-stability benchmark
  - Central bank balance sheet debate is multi-dimensional
31. 10 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO · CHALLENGES
  REAL VISION DAILY BRIEFING
  - Soft US inflation data points to Fed cuts
32. 10 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO · CHALLENGES
  THE DIVIDEND CAFE
  - Weak jobs data reduces likelihood of Fed hike
33. 10 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  CNBC FAST MONEY
  - Market misreading Fed Chair Warsh as dovish
34. 11 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Platinum age of monetary policy lowers volatility
35. 11 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  WEALTHION - BE FINANCIALLY RESILIENT
  - Fed credibility on the line, needs September hike
36. 11 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  CNBC FAST MONEY
  - Fed should have hiked to preserve optionality
37. 12 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  TOP TRADERS UNPLUGGED
  - Warsh Fed seen as hawkish, curbing inflation expectations
38. 12 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  FORWARD GUIDANCE · 5 MENTIONS
  - Kevin Warsh as the credible dove in hawk's clothing
  - Post-Volcker Fed policy has gotten progressively easier
  - Removing Fed forward guidance reduces capital misallocation · CHALLENGES
  - Fed faces dovish structural shift
  - Treasury fair value near 6%
39. 12 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  THE OPTIONS INSIDER RADIO NETWORK
  - Watch US rates market, not Fed policy
40. 12 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY
  - Long-term Treasury yields headed to 6-8%
41. 12 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  CNBC FAST MONEY
  - Fed needs 75 bps of hikes to regain control
42. 13 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO · CHALLENGES
  THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW
  - Warsh Fed brings higher uncertainty, favors gold
43. 13 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Fed needs a hike to restore credibility
44. 13 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  MACROVOICES
  - Front-end vs long-end bond positioning split
45. 14 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  MARKETPLACE · 2 MENTIONS
  - Fed faces rock and a hard place
  - Bond market signaling higher rates
46. 15 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 2 MENTIONS
  - Fed rate hike not supported by wage data
  - Fed likely on hold, next move a cut not a hike · CHALLENGES
47. 15 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  EURODOLLAR UNIVERSITY · 2 MENTIONS
  - 30-year yield rise is curve normalization, not vigilantes
  - Bill market shows fading Fed hike odds
48. 17 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
  MACRO MUSINGS WITH DAVID BECKWORTH · 3 MENTIONS
  - Fed's demand-driven system history
  - Sea change in Fed balance sheet thinking
  - Balance sheet shrinkage needs market incentives
49. 17 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
  BANKLESS · 5 MENTIONS
  - Fed shifts to 12 independent voters
  - Fed rate hikes could calm the bond market
  - Forward guidance creates moral hazard
  - Market must price higher policy uncertainty
  - Long yields rising despite Fed cuts
50. 17 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
  THE DIVIDEND CAFE
  - Fed's low guidance acts as financial tightening
51. 20 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
  THE GRANT WILLIAMS PODCAST
  - Kevin Warsh's Fed reform as intellectual challenge
52. 21 AUG 2026 · 6D AGO
  GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES: THE MARKETS
  - Jackson Hole as key test for broadening trade
53. 24 AUG 2026 · 3D AGO
  REAL VISION DAILY BRIEFING
  - Fed's Powell may signal dovish turn at Jackson Hole
54. 24 AUG 2026 · 3D AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Buying opportunity at 5% 10-year yields
24 AUG 2026 · 3D AGO
THE DIVIDEND CAFE
- Treasury's long-bond intervention as market distortion
25 AUG 2026 · 2D AGO
EURODOLLAR UNIVERSITY
- Testing Dalio's debt crisis warning · THIS IDEA
25 AUG 2026 · 2D AGO
MARKETPLACE
- Fed's Jackson Hole speech as policy signal
26 AUG 2026 · YESTERDAY
BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- Fed still likely to hike before year-end
26 AUG 2026 · YESTERDAY
THE DIVIDEND CAFE
- Fed's Jackson Hole speech as potential yield curve catalyst
26 AUG 2026 · YESTERDAY
MARKETPLACE
- Fed's blunt tools against supply-driven inflation

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