You're welcome and thank you for the kind comment.
Ray Dalio is probably one of the world's great macro economic investors - running the world's largest hedge fund. He's pretty apolitical, I'd say a moderate.
The benefit of trading economic principles from someone like him (and not a professor at a college, of politician), is that he's assessed on his performance in ability to predict the *real world* to, as he would say, "three decimal points". (His investors give his fund hundreds of billions to manage for his predictive powers, based on his systems understanding of the world.)
He has a few books very worthy to read. Try "How Countries Go Broke:
Principles for Navigating the Big Debt Cycle." It's available for free on his website economicprinciples dot org
Of course, I don't think you should limit your understanding to any one source. But he's got 50 years as a macro economic investor, he has no political affiliation, and his principles have been honed with real world experiences (not just books where it's simply elegantly written theory and there's no back testing of your theories.)