Want access to this information before it is priced into the market? Get access to Benzinga's real-time news feed for only $1. While most of the rest of the world is debating “when” rather than “if” an FOMC rate hike is coming, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio sees a much more troubling scenario unfolding. According to Dalio, the next major move by the Federal Reserve will be easing rather than tightening, and the Fed may be ill-equipped to combat the coming end of a secular debt-powered global economic supercycle. Classical Economic Cycles The typical classical economic cycle revolves around the spread between short-term interest rates and the returns that can be generated from longer-term investments such as stocks. “Because short-term interest rates are normally below the rates of return of longer-term assets, you’d... More