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The AI Economic Doomsday Report That Shook Wall Street

February 27, 2026·20 min·4-min readnarrativenews
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A fictional Substack post from a small research firm, Citrini Research, projected a dystopian AI-driven future with mass white-collar job losses and economic collapse by 2028, sparking a real-world stock market sell-off and exposing Wall Street’s deep uncertainty about AI’s economic impac

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Alep ShahJack Dorsey

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Citrini ResearchSalesforceSnowflakeDoorDashBlock

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Artificial IntelligenceBusiness NewsFuture Of WorkStartupsTech NewsVenture Capital

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