Anthony Scaramucci has spent decades in finance and politics. Now the SkyBridge Capital founder sees artificial intelligence delivering growth rates unseen since the middle of the last century. Yet the same force, he cautions, could displace up to one in five mid-career white-collar positions and spark widespread economic anxiety. Scaramucci laid out the optimistic case in mid-May. Speaking in a video circulated on X, he argued that productivity gains from AI could push annual U.S. GDP growth as high as 6 percent to 7 percent. Yahoo Finance reported the remarks on May 14, 2026. If that surge materializes, the former White House communications director believes the country could outrun its debt burden the way it did after World War II. “If the AI productivity wave delivers what people think it will you could actually outpace the spending problem in the US,” Scaramucci posted on X. “We did it after World War II. Debt to GDP hit 122% at the end of the war. We never paid it back in the traditional sense.…