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Ray Dalio—founder, co-Chief Investment Officer and co-Chairman of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund—projects that the novel coronavirus will exact as much as a $4 trillion toll on US corporations.

In an interview with CNBC, Dalio pegged the global economic cost of COVID-19 at $12 trillion.

What’s happening has not happened in our lifetime before. … What we have is a crisis.

“A lot of people are going to be broke,” Dalio said on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “What you’re seeing is the inability of central banks to stimulate monetary policy in a way that is normal.”

Dalio said that Bridgewater has suffered “somewhere in the vicinity of 10% to 20% kind of decline” during the market’s recent turmoil.

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Edward Kim is Managing Editor of Equities News.

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Source: Equities News