ClaimsRay Dalio

“No, I’ve never done it because of stress.”

Ray Dalio, interviewee on The Tim Ferriss Show 1 February 2018 Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Ray Dalio (#264) (tim.blog) archived copy

Factual Their own work or organisation

Ray Dalio has never liquidated investment positions because of stress.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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Reasoning

Whether he has never liquidated positions due to stress concerns his private motivations and history, and no public record could settle it.

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Ray Dalio, “Ray Dalio has never liquidated investment positions because of stress.” (said 1 February 2018). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_eb992bc68e20, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_eb992bc68e20

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