Avid Reader Press 11/30/2021. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. Store pick: It's as if Isaac Asimov based the protagonist of his 1942 novel, Foundation, on Ray Dalio, but Ray wasn't even born until 1949. Ray, the founder of the enormously successful hedge fund, Bridgewater, has applied the same techniques he used so successfully at Bridgewater (compile reams of historical data, develop theories and decision rules, backtest your theories with the help of computers against your historical data, refine and repeat) to understanding the rise and fall of empires and where the US currently stands,... View More...