<p><b>The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. An instant <i>New York Times </i>bestseller!<br></b><br>Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book.<br><br>Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company¿s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, <i>Principles</i>. In <i>The Fund</i>, award-winning <i>New York Times</i> journalist Rob Copeland punctures this carefully-constructed narrative of the benevolent business titan, exposing his much-promoted ¿principles¿ as one of the great feats of hubris in modern memory¿in practice, they encouraged a toxic cul
