If you thought the global financial crisis was bad…

If you thought the global financial crisis was bad…

When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI, writes short-seller Carson Block

WITHIN A FEW years, artificial intelligence will displace a significant portion of the world’s highly paid knowledge workers. Aggregate demand will suffer, but flows into retirement investment accounts will turn net-negative: workers won’t just stop paying in, they will need to withdraw funds.

But not quite in the way Alan Greenspan did, writes Peter Conti-Brown

Donald Trump is rightly trying to escape supply-chain dependency, but he should be careful, write Joshua Zoffer and Chris Miller

Outdated regulation could be as big a threat as the technologies it is supposed to govern, write Gus O’Donnell and Sharon White

Yet the unstable peace may veer off track even without attempts to derail it, writes Dalia Dassa Kaye

After four years of institutional decay, fiscal recklessness and deteriorating security, the country must change course, argues Iván Duque

Nothing short of the most ambitious political agenda in peacetime will do, writes Judith Dada