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Workforce in motion: Skills and pathways to future jobs in the United States
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AI, automation, and broader structural trends are accelerating the reallocation of work across the US economy. Capturing its benefits requires developing new professional pathways and skills, and reducing barriers between declining and growing occupations.
Aftershocks: Energy security beyond the Strait of Hormuz crisis
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The energy system has proven surprisingly resilient, but shock absorbers are thinning. Energy security has no easy exits but room to maneuver.
The AI economy: Interconnected forces, feedback loops, and speeds of change
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AI is shaped by forces far beyond the technology itself, and its effects reach just as widely. Mapping how the pieces interact helps us see what could influence its course and where hurdles and opportunities may emerge.
Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade: September 2026 update
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Six regional briefings track how goods trade is evolving across major economies through partner realignments and sectoral shifts.
The global balance sheet 2026: Imbalance and divergence
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Several asset classes grew further out of balance with the economy, raising the possibility of corrections through inflation, asset valuation losses, or, optimally, productivity.
Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Latin America
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Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.
Catalyzing competitiveness: Where investment happens and why
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Competitiveness has moved to the top of the global agenda, and investment is its indicator and its outcome. In the context of dramatically diverging investment patterns globally, companies and regions can pull seven levers to level up.
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McKinsey research shows AI creating more jobs than automation displaces — but 11 million American workers will need help this decade
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While debates about AI’s impact on the workforce dominate headlines, the biggest challenge ahead will be helping workers find the most direct pathway into growing jobs, write Eric Kutcher and Tanguy Catlin in Fortune.
Energy security in an age of disruption
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While there is no single prescription for energy security, strengthening “response capacity,” such as by establishing stockpiles, substituting sources, and diversifying suppliers, is essential. The point is not to eliminate vulnerabilities altogether, but to ensure that there are options when disruption arrives, write Diego Hernandez Diaz, Luciano Di Fiori, and Tiago Devesa in Project Syndicate.
America’s next workforce challenge: Building pathways to better jobs
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Over the next decade, AI, automation, and economic forces like demographic aging will set off the largest workforce restructuring in history, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.