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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs26 min
How AI Debt Is Reshaping Credit Markets
Amanda Lynam, Zach Ablon, Allison Nathan
Global credit markets have shifted as AI-driven debt issuance from hyperscalers and the broader ecosystem now dominates supply, reaching nearly $500 billion year-to-date in 2026 alone. This unprecedented concentration is reshaping the Investment Grade landscape by skewing duration weight toward tech giants like Amazon and Google, while simultaneously testing market absorption limits and driving spread widening among insurance investors. As traditional US IG capacity approaches a $510 billion ceiling, the financing void is forcing a structural pivot toward private capital, non-USD jurisdictions, and alternative vehicles like project finance to sustain the multi-trillion-dollar AI investment cycle.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
Cracks in Private Credit
Howard Marks, Michael Arougheti, Amanda Lynam, Allison Nathan, Michael Arrighetti
After expanding to nearly $2 trillion in assets, the private credit market faces liquidity scrutiny driven by redemption requests against non-traded BDCs, though institutional capital remains insulated by lock-up structures. While exposure to software and AI sectors has raised concerns about potential defaults, experts like Howard Marks argue that senior lenders' first-lien positions and diversified portfolios remain resilient against systemic failure. Looking ahead, industry leaders predict a necessary credit cycle correction that will reallocate capital toward direct lending and opportunistic credit strategies, ultimately fostering a more circumspect investment environment.
- Goldman Sachs16 min
The New AI Trades
In early 2026, software stocks suffered a 25% valuation collapse as forward earnings multiples compressed, while investors grappled with AI-driven disruption risks across sectors like legal and media. Simultaneously, five U.S. hyperscalers are projected to spend $660 billion on capital expenditures this year, a surge consuming 90% of their operating cash flows that has forced reduced buybacks and increased debt reliance. Amidst these headwinds, Goldman Sachs forecasts an S&P 500 recovery driven primarily by 12% fourth-quarter earnings growth and a market rotation toward cyclical sectors rather than AI-centric leaders.
- Goldman Sachs14 min
Are AI Bubble Concerns Warranted or Overblown?
Eric Sheridan, Kash Rangan, Allison Nathan
NVIDIA's projection of $3 trillion to $4 trillion in global AI infrastructure spending by 2030 has outpaced analyst expectations, though this capital surge faces scrutiny regarding sustainability and potential market bubbles. While the current "Magnificent Seven" exhibit strong free cash flows unlike 1990s tech firms, analysts warn of fragile circular investments and rising leverage risks that mirror the 2000 telecom era collapse. Experts anticipate a probable "trough of disillusionment" as enterprise AI adoption lags and the industry confronts the challenge of sustaining returns for an ecosystem where historically only a few companies generate excess capital efficiency.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
AI Exchanges: AI’s Impact on Employment
Joseph Briggs, Allison Nathan, George Lee
While current U.S. corporate AI adoption hovers at 9% with higher penetration in large firms, the technology is already reshaping the labor market by increasing specialized engineering job postings by up to 50% while disproportionately displacing recent college graduates and junior roles. Although long-term forecasts suggest minimal structural unemployment due to historical technology-driven growth, rapid adoption within one to three years could trigger a 2% to 2.5% unemployment spike, whereas a gradual ten-year transition would keep impacts manageable. Strategic resilience depends on the sector's reliance on high-stakes decision-making or human interaction, yet the shift forces a fundamental challenge to traditional apprenticeship models and introduces hybrid workforce structures where managers oversee both humans and autonomous agents.
- Goldman Sachs23 min
AI Exchanges: Where Will the Power Come From?
Rebecca Kruger, Allison Nathan, George Lee
Hyperscalers and utilities are forging unprecedented partnerships to address the binding power constraint of AI infrastructure, as the sector's step-change demand outstrips the current grid's 40-year-old capacity and supply chain limitations. With nuclear and gas-fired assets facing severe construction bottlenecks and a critical mismatch between rapid data center deployment and decade-long power generation timelines, these entities are committing to billions in capital and ten-year contracts to ensure reliable baseload generation. This strategic realignment, supported by emergency permitting measures and advanced technologies like behind-the-meter generation, marks a decisive shift from two decades of flat energy growth to a new era of massive grid modernization and investment.
- Goldman Sachs20 min
Is a US fiscal crisis ahead?
Kenneth Rogoff, Niall Ferguson, Allison Nathan, Ken Rogoff, Neil Ferguson
Economists Ken Rogoff and Niall Ferguson argue that the United States faces an unsustainable fiscal trajectory driven by rising global interest rates and a critical threshold where sovereign debt servicing costs have surpassed defense spending. They warn that without political reforms or productivity breakthroughs from artificial intelligence, the nation risks a rapid financial crisis involving inflation or a permanent erosion of the dollar's reserve currency status. This convergence of historical parallels and modern geopolitical fragmentation suggests the U.S. must navigate a difficult choice between austerity, higher inflation, or diminished global influence within the coming years.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
A German economic revival?
The new German coalition government has enacted legislation to unlock €500 billion for infrastructure and committed to raising defense spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2030, while simultaneously implementing reforms to boost economic competitiveness. These structural shifts occur amidst significant external pressure from U.S. tariff proposals that threaten the Eurozone's GDP and force multinational corporations to restructure supply chains, particularly within the automotive and chemical sectors. Despite macroeconomic headwinds and elevated valuations in European markets, robust M&A activity persists as companies accelerate digital transformation and restructuring to navigate a volatile geoeconomic landscape without an imminent recession on the horizon.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
AI Exchanges: CIO Marco Argenti on the future of AI in the workplace
Marco Argenti, George Lee, Allison Nathan
A Goldman Sachs-led panel analyzes the rapid acceleration of AI reasoning models against the persistent "value gap" created by legacy systems and the behavioral friction of retraining human workflows. While "de novo" enterprises advance faster due to agile structures, the firm is actively cultivating "mindful disruptors" and embedding specific cultural judgment into agents to manage risks like hallucinations and data exfiltration. The dialogue concludes that future success relies on a hybrid workforce where AI agents provide elastic capacity and mechanical execution, leaving high-level creativity and professional oversight to human leaders.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
AI Exchanges: Will falling costs drive new opportunities?
Allison Nathan, George Lee, Kim Posnett
Host George Lee and guests analyze how DeepSeek's low-cost AI model challenges the economic viability of massive U.S. tech capital expenditures while triggering a shift in consensus from data scarcity to power availability as the primary industry constraint. Despite short-term market volatility, the panel highlights record CapEx commitments from hyperscalers and emerging enterprise adoption trends, including Goldman Sachs' internal AI tools and synthetic data markets, which collectively suggest a rapid transition toward autonomous AI agents and multi-gigawatt infrastructure needs. The discussion concludes with a bullish long-term outlook, predicting that declining computing costs will fuel new use cases and accelerate workforce productivity even as the sector navigates immediate supply chain bottlenecks.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
How a popular trade collapsed — and why it matters
Kamakshya Trivedi, Praneet Shah, Allison Nathan
Following a surge to record speculative highs in 2024, the yen carry trade unraveled after the Bank of Japan's rate hike and expectations of US Federal Reserve cuts narrowed the critical yield differential. This reversal triggered a negative feedback loop of forced liquidations across global markets, affecting currencies from the Mexican peso to the Chinese renminbi, while distinct dynamics emerged between the rapid unwinding of hedge fund positions and the slower rebalancing of institutional portfolios. Despite the immediate volatility, economists anticipate the trade could regain relevance by mid-November if US economic data supports the restoration of attractive global yield spreads.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
Are the largest US stocks too dominant?
Ben Snider, Peter Callahan, Allison Nathan
Ben Snyder and Peter Callahan analyze record-breaking market concentration where the S&P 500's top ten stocks now hold 33% of total capitalization, a level unmatched since the 1930s despite current valuations being supported by robust earnings growth rather than speculation. While the "Magnificent Seven" face pressure to sustain revenue gains amid rising AI infrastructure costs, active managers are capitalizing on increasing sector dispersion and finding alpha outside the dominant tech tier. Historical precedents and ongoing investor strategies suggest that such concentrated rallies often conclude with broader market participation rather than immediate collapse, provided the economic backdrop remains stable.
- Goldman Sachs21 min
High mortgage rates, limited inventory continue to challenge the US housing market
Roger Ashworth, Allison Nathan
Despite existing home sales collapsing to thirty-year lows due to severe affordability shocks and a borrower lock-in effect, institutional investors and persistent demographic demand are preventing a market correction. Goldman Sachs Research forecasts a 5% price appreciation in 2024 and declining mortgage rates by 2025, driven by tight inventory and a projected population boom among primary buying-age cohorts. While supply chain hurdles and macroeconomic risks like inflation threaten to delay recovery, historically low foreclosure rates and substantial homeowner equity provide a stable price floor.
- Goldman Sachs23 min
Unlocking the AI M&A Supercycle
Jung Min, Matt Lucas, Allison Nathan
Goldman Sachs' latest analysis characterizes the current generative AI boom as a transformative, economy-wide shift driven by chat interfaces and algorithmic leaps, while noting that widespread enterprise adoption remains in a nascent phase. Investment capital is currently concentrated on infrastructure components like semiconductors and data centers, leading to a shift in public market valuations toward tangible results rather than speculation. Although acquisition activity is temporarily constrained by strategic uncertainty, future M&A waves and significant economic productivity gains are projected to emerge once regulatory frameworks stabilize and enterprise spending matures over the coming decade.