After strong growth for the past few years, the global economy is showing signs of slowing down and possibly signaling even bigger trouble later down the road. This also leaves the world’s top economists worried if we have any more tools left to fight the next financial downturn—or if we all but used them up after the last one.

Protection in the Risk Zone
In just over six months, from January to mid-June 2022, the stock market wiped out $3 trillion in retirement savings, and 401(k) participants alone had lost about $1.4 trillion. Now, with soaring inflation, geopolitical instability, and a possible recession on the...