AI labour displacement and the entry-level job. The first cohort to graduate into AI-assisted work finds fewer entry-level roles; if it persists it reshapes consumption, credit, and politics for a generation.
What to watch: Unemployment for recent graduates; postings in coding, customer service, and paralegal roles. It arrives monthly, and the effect typically lasts years.
It sits in tier 2 — Directional: Moves the index for days or weeks. Scheduled data releases, policy decisions, global spillovers, and the prices of money and energy. This is the tier most professional attention is spent on.
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Also in Technology and structural forces
- AI investment cycle
- Index concentration
- Demographics and retirement flows
- Immigration policy
- Energy transition and climate policy
- Rise of passive and index investing
- Semiconductor cycle
- AI adoption and labour substitution
- Consumer preference shifts
- Data-centre power and grid constraints
- Memory and HBM pricing
- Birth rates and household formation
- Semiconductor sales and equipment book-to-bill
- EV sales share and battery pack prices
- Marriage and birth counts
- College enrolment and the demographic cliff