Ray Dalio did a study rating countries and published it free online.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
True: by February 2025, Dalio had published a study rating or ranking countries (such as the country power or health indices in 'The Changing World Order' or a similar country-ratings study) and made it free to access online. Mostly true: the study exists and is freely available, but it was released under Bridgewater or another affiliate's name, or only part of it is free. Mixed: he produced the study, but free online access was limited (for example, only summaries were free). Mostly false: the only country-rating material was paywalled or included only in a paid book. False: no such study by Dalio exists.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (3)
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E1 THE CHANGING WORLD ORDER - economicprinciples.org economicprinciples.org (Ray Dalio) Own record
“promised to share updated versions for 24 countries—those in the G20 plus others that scored as notable global powers—at least annually on economicprinciples.org. That’s what I’m now doing.”
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E2 RAY DALIO RELEASES INAUGURAL EDITION OF ANNUAL GLOBAL "POWER SCORE" INDEX PRNewswire (press release issued for Ray Dalio; media contact Prosek Partners) · 24 May 2022 Own record
“The index is available at www.economicprinciples.org and will be updated annually.”
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E3 Ray Dalio’s Big Cycle, Part 2 Mauldin Economics (John Mauldin) · 15 August 2025
“Below, I’ll be quoting from an update he published in January 2023.”
Reasoning
The only independent item, E3, says only that Dalio published an update in January 2023. It does not say the update was a country-ratings study or that it was free to access. E1 and E2 come from Dalio himself. They show a 24-country power index on economicprinciples.org, but neither says that access is free, so the evidence does not settle the claim under the criteria.
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Ray Dalio, “Ray Dalio did a study rating countries and published it free online.” (said 22 February 2025). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_472b8cc5c4a5, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_472b8cc5c4a5
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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