Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warned on Wednesday that President Donald Trump‘s latest round of tariffs could deepen “stagflation” and may never deliver on promises to revive U.S. factory floors.
What Happened: “The tariffs are being put into place as a symptom of things that are changing that will be there anyway,” the Bridgewater Associates founder said in a video on X.
Dalio said the White House hopes levies will raise revenue and “develop manufacturing, which the United States needs both for employment reasons and security reasons.” But he cast doubt on that outcome. “There is a belief that tariffs will bring manufacturing back to the United States, I am uncertain of that.”