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Ray Dalio links Bessent debt buyback to signs of a coming crisis and recommends gold and bitcoin

8/22/2026

A debt buyback is when a government repurchases its own outstanding bonds before they come due, paying them off early rather than waiting for each bond to mature on its original schedule.

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio said this week that Treasury Secretary Bessent's debt buyback announcement fits into a larger pattern that could signal a forthcoming debt crisis.

He put gold and bitcoin on his list of recommended assets in that context. What Dalio sees in the pattern Dalio read the Bessent announcement as one piece of evidence inside a larger accumulation.

His stated position is that the pattern as a whole could signal a debt crisis getting closer. He did not say a crisis is coming; he said the pattern is pointing that direction.

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