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The Achilles’ heel of global trade: Building resilience where it matters most
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International trade has been resilient, but important vulnerabilities lurk beneath the surface. Identifying and managing these Achilles’ heels could help unlock new markets, products, and economic growth.
Advancing adaptation: Breaking barriers to a trillion-dollar opportunity
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Climate adaptation delivers benefits far greater than its costs, but investment lags. What are the barriers to scaling adaptation and how could they be overcome?
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.
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McKinsey Global Institute: Climate adaptation could need $1.2 trillion a year by 2050. $690 billion of it is stuck
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After a sweltering summer on both sides of the Atlantic and a fall marked by storms in the Pacific, climate adaptation will be top of mind for many attending this year’s COP. Yet new research from the McKinsey Global Institute suggests that by 2050, the world could be leaving $690 billion in potential annual adaptation spending on the table, write Mekala Krishnan, Kanmani Chockalingam, and Sylvain Johansson in Fortune.
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.