Bridgewater’s Dalio Warns of US Debt Crisis, Urges Bitcoin and Gold

Dalio's warning carries weight less because of the specific timeline than because it comes from the architect of the world's largest hedge fund, giving institutional cover to a thesis that hard-money advocates have pushed for years. The notable shift is the pairing of bitcoin with gold as a debt-crisis hedge, which nudges the asset further into mainstream portfolio conversations even as allocators remain split on its reliability in a genuine risk-off event. Whether that framing hardens into a durable institutional narrative, or fades as another macro call that didn't land on schedule, is the open question.