Victor Davis Hanson: Energy, Tax Cuts, and Deregulation Could Supercharge 2026’s Economy Economic booms are usually defined by “greater productivity,” increased foreign investment, “reasonable” interest rates, “energy production,” and “plentiful deregulation and tax cuts.” But will any of this happen in 2026? Hanson predicts we’ll “see an economic bonanza” in 2026 as “there's going to be more oil,” “ new technologies,” and “all sorts of tax cuts” and “more deregulation than we've ever seen” in t