Could AI accelerate innovation and lift economic growth, ushering the world into a new era of abundance? Or will scarcity in power, labor, capital and materials dominate? Our 2026 Midyear Global Outlook looks at the big calls investors can’t avoid — and how the possibility of multiple, very different economic outcomes demand a portfolio rethink.
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