The brightest minds in politics, economics, and business gathered for the Bloomberg Year Ahead conference in Chicago today. The event is designed to offer a candid look at the forces transforming entire industries with untold measures of disappointment and promise. In a totally unscientific attempt to measure the two, we cornered some of the big thinkers and asked them the same quick questions. Read the lightly edited insights on next year’s biggest issues.

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