. >> rose: ray dalio is here, he is the founder of bridgewater associates. created the investment firm in 1975 out of a two-bedroom apartment in new york city. today the company managed roughly $125 billion in global investments. its clients include foreign governments, sovereign banks, central banks and institutional pension funds. over the last two years, bridgewater ranked as the largest and best-performing hedge fundn the world. in 2010, his returns were greater than the profits of google, amazon and ebay combined. i'm very pleased to have ray dalio at this table for the first time to lk about a perspective on t global economic scene and a whole range of issues having to do with where we see ourselves and also a look at his whole philosophy and his own opinions and the way he looks at th world. having said that, welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> rose: what is bridgeter sociates? it's a global macro firm. we assess what the wor economy is like and what... how asset classes will change and we are managing money