저자: RayDalio · 외국인
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Ray Dalio의 결론: 현재 세계는 1930~45년과 유사한 구조적 전환기에 있으며, 부채 사이클 후기, 부와 불평등 격차, 중국의 부상이 시장과 지정학을 동시에 흔드는 핵심 동인이다. [부채 사이클] 1945년 브레튼우즈 체제 이후 금리 인하로 부채 확대가 가능했으나, 제로금리(1932년 사례) 도달 후에는 중앙은행이 돈을 찍어 금융자산을 매입하는 2단계 정책으로 넘어간다. 2008~09년과 1929~32년만 이 단계에 해당했다고 설명. 현재는 재정과 통화정책이 결합된 3단계(Monetary Policy 3) 국면으로, 돈이 실물 인구에게 충분히 전달되지 않아 중앙은행이 다양한 자산과 정부부채를 매입하며 유동성을 공급한다. 사이클 후기 확장 국면이며 현재 시장을 움직이는 동력이라고 평가. [화폐 가치와 자산 배분] 제로·마이너스 금리에서 현금은 매력적인 투자처가 아니며, 자금은 금·주식 등 가치저장 수단으로 이동한다. 중앙은행이 시장 유동성을 사실상 만들고 있어 모든 자산군에 반영된다고 봄. 특히 특정 유형의 주식이 두드러진다고 언급. [인플레이션 전망] 이번 정책은 즉각적 일반 물가 상승보다는 디플레이션 압력을 상쇄하는 방향이며, 시간이 지나면서 통화 가치 하락(평가절하) 형태로 나타날 것이라고 봄. 1933년 루스벨트의 금 태환 중단 후 주식 바닥 사례와 2020년 4월 연준·재무부 조치를 유사 사례로 제시. [부와 불평등 격차] 개인·기업·정부 모두 수입 감소 시 디폴트와 구조조정이 발생하며, 역사적으로 경제 침체·정책 효과 약화·부와 정치적 격차가 겹치면 부의 분배를 둘러싼 내부 갈등이 커진다. 이에 따라 향후 세제 정책 변화가 불가피하다고 예상. [중국의 부상과 미·중 갈등] 중국은 미국 이상의 경쟁자로 부상했으며 무역·기술·지정학(남중국해 등)·자본 영역에서 갈등이 진행 중이다. 글로벌 상호의존에서 자급자족 체제로의 전환이 진행되며, 공급망 차단 위험에 대비해야 한다고 봄. 다만 협력 여지도 크다고 덧붙임. [역사적 유사성] 1920년대 번영 → 과도한 부채 → 1929년 버블 붕괴 → 디플레이션 → 정책 한계 → 내부 갈등과 외부 갈등 동반 → 1930~45년 독일·유럽·일본 부상과 전쟁이라는 패턴을 현재와 비교. 대외 갈등이 신흥 강국과 기존 강국 사이에서 발생하는 경향을 강조. [결론] 부채 사이클 후기, 부·정치적 격차, 중국 부상이 결합된 환경이며, 역사적 패턴을 고려할 때 경계가 필요하다는 경고성 메시지.
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ray when we spoke last week you highlighted the importance of three things for assessing the world from here one the debt cycle two gaps in wealth and inequality and three the rising power of china if you could just start by diving into the first issue and addressing where are we in the debt cycle uh yeah just to um just give a frame it before we get going um on directly answering your question um i experienced through my lifetime uh surprises about things that never happened in my lifetime before but happened many times in history before and um uh the three forces that we're talking about which is um there is a long-term debt cycle um which will get into um the the large wealth and uh political gaps that go with it and the rise of a great power to challenging existing great power happened in the 1930-45 period and happened many times before and are the big drivers not just of the economic environment but of of the whole environment so let me start with the the debt cycle um um there are you know in 1945 we began a new world order 1944 we created a new monetary system the bretton woods monetary system and then we created that new world order and that created a bull markets and stocks and an american world order for the most part there's a cycle that we're used to in which um whenever you have a economic downturn the central bank hits the gas and can create debt expansion and that produces an increase in demand and that happens in three phases at the cycle normally it's interest rates you lower interest rates and the economy turns up but when you hit zero interest rates uh which happened in 1932 debt crisis 1932 we hit zero interest rates um then you go to the second type of monetary policy in which central banks print money and buy financial assets to add liquidity and those purchases those sellers of bonds who get the cash go out and they buy other financial assets and we have the process going through and that's the second type of monetary policy so the only two times that that happened was not uh 2008 to 9 1929 to 1932 zero interest rates print money monetization that'll carry you so far and then um there's what i call monetary policy three which means that um that money does not trickle down to the population and go all the places that it's needed to go and that monetary policy means that there has to be the um what we're seeing now in monetary policy in other words the coordination between fiscal and monetary policy so that the central bank is buying assets of a different sort a wide range for a wide range of assets producing liquidity and also produ having the effect of buying government debt and monetizing it and that's the late cycle of an of an expansion that's what's driving the markets now that's what's driving the economy now um for example um today the federal reserve and the the government is creating the liquidity that we're seeing in the markets and it has big implications for the value of money what is the value of money where does money go cash is going to be a poor investment and so it goes elsewhere so that's the character of the environment um which means that if you look at the returns of asset classes and you take cash isn't it an interesting world when you have zero or negative interest rates and um then there's the desire to create a spread in that so the short-term rates are lower than long-term rates and there's and then the when there's so much liquidity it is the central bank that is making that market so when we look at the market today um it needs the storehold of wealth and you see it reflected in all asset classes so that's the main driver and it also has very big geopolitical implications because as we come into this environment um where uh we have the second influence the wealth gap the political gap it um means that the distinction of how money and the bills are going to be divided and how that uh will affect tax policy and the like will matter a lot that's a great framework thanks for laying that out i just want to dive into a few things that you you mentioned there you talked about um you know the value of money i wonder if you can just outline whether you think that the current um fiscal and monetary policy policy stimulus mix is going to have in phrase inflationary consequences and relatedly can you just talk about how the current economic and policy backdrop relates to the issue of gaps in wealth and inequality well on the first point i think it's very much like the 1930s which means when there's uh it doesn't produce immediately a general level of inflation it negates deflationary pressures and what it does is it produces currency depreciations over a period of time in the 1930s all currencies in the early 30s uh depreciated in relationship at that time in relationship to gold and so what we see is the same kind of thing happening without a general level of inflation not just gold it goes into other storeholds of wealth and stocks is um an important uh particularly certain types of stocks it goes into um and very much the same as 1933 in 1933 march of 1933 uh franklin roosevelt severed the connection with gold printed money um and made money available and that was the exact bottom in the stock market very simple similar to april 9th when uh the federal reserve and the treasury uh did the same thing so that goes into other assets such as um uh stocks and so on creates a a reflation it is necessary to be done because the consequences of not doing it are um unacceptable the wealth gap and so on uh you refer to that we're in a situation where every individual every company every government um has a certain amount of revenue a certain amount of expenses and a certain balance sheet and when the revenue goes down and to be low or inadequate relative to the expenses and there's not an adequate balance sheet then defaults and restructurings take place that's true for the population as a whole and that's true for a number of businesses hence the policies that we're seeing what what has been true in history is that when you have um an economic downturn that's a serious economic downturn and less effective monetary policies at that same time and you have a large wealth and values gap and political gaps you have tend to have fighting internal conflict and so rising internal conflict about how to divide the wealth pie um is very very normal historically and so that's the dynamic um i think that we're now seeing that will become manifest in changes in tax policy and so on so the combination of the monetary policy the indebtedness the downturn and then these gaps is the character of the environment we're in let's add a third thing into the mix which is the rise of china and you alluded to this in your earlier statements uh if i'm not wrong you've been visiting china back to the 1980s and so you've been a student of the country for many decades can you just outline what you make of the rising power of china what it means for the u.s and how it relates to some of these earlier factors you discussed around debt and gaps in wealth and inequality well through history when a rising power of consequence challenges in existing power there are uh conflicts um and what we undeniably have is a um powerful china that today um is more of a competitor than the united states since 1945 has experienced um in its world water the the soviet empire was economically uh not anywhere near comparable and so we have uh four uh conflicts with china uh we have a trade war going on uh we have a technology war going on uh we have a geopolitical war going on in terms of particularly well it's around the world but it's particularly in the uh uh uh south china seas and and that area and then uh we could have a capital war going on history suggests those things so that dynamic um has big economic and market implications and implications beyond that for example we're going from an environment in which we have globalization and interdependencies to an environment in which we have self-sufficiency necessary because neither country knows necessarily where this is going to lead and that means that you can't be cut off history has shown that cutting off supply lines and all of that so we're in that particular phase and it's um it's changing uh that way um there you know there's um there's a lot in common and there's a lot to cooperate with um and um there's no doubt that china is um a very effective uh force that will continue to grow since i started going there in 1984 um its income per capita income has real per capita income increased 22 times it's become substantially larger in world trade than the united states and so on its poverty rates gone from 88 percent to one percent so it's a force and the interactions between that force are also going to have implications to capital flows the effectiveness of the economies and then the geopolitical issues it comes at the same time like in 1930 in like in 1930 to 45 and this is a pattern by the way that's gone down before history you quite often you have a a period of great prosperity like the 1920s and it gets over extended with debt because everybody bets on the the past being continued and it becomes it creates a bubble 1929 then you have a downturn a depression interest rates can't be lowered anymore print money the expansion internal conflict internal conflict and also economic conflict tends to coincide with external conflict particularly when there is a comparable power rising in that particular case it was germany and europe and japan uh in asia so that dynamic is is going on and will be important that's really interesting and uh a slightly concerning historical parallel you
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