Per Hong gives his takeaways from Davos 2026: “it wasn’t about a crisis, it was about constraint.” The widening disconnect between performance and perception was in mind, as well as continued geopolitical uncertainty and fragmentation. He cites multiple examples of business struggles and disruptions, including tariffs and the risk of volatility becoming “structural.” The old assumption that markets work separately from the state is beginning to “blur,” he argues, creating a new paradigm.