12 Wildcard Possibilities for 2026
From tariffs to the streaming wars to AI.
A visitor tries a VR headset during the first Hong Kong AI Art Festival on Dec. 20, 2025.
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Welcome back to The Forecast from Bloomberg Weekend, where we help you think about the future — from next week to next decade.
If 2025 taught us anything, it’s that you can’t always count on business as usual. We covered this in one of our prediction market roundups, looking at the questions the markets had gotten wrong: Last year, a bunch of plausible-but-unlikely stuff actually happened.