The biggest economic threat next year comes from geopolitical bad actors "who with one action can upset economic and market assumptions globally," a new survey of 500 institutional investors finds. Driving the news: The annual survey from Natixis ranked the threat higher than central bank policy mistakes, consumer pullbacks, or China's sluggish economy. Why it matters: We're in a post-COVID world now, where relationships and alliances are breaking down. • That was evident last year, too, when war was the top economic risk identified in the Natixis survey. • The year before that, though, as the world was still ... (full story)