In this episode of Think Macro, Vincent Chailley, CIO of H2O AM Group, explores an unusual market dynamic: central banks are cutting policy rates, yet long-term yields keep rising. This reversal is no coincidence - it reflects investors demanding a higher term premium in response to renewed concerns over debt sustainability, persistent inflation, and weakening institutional credibility.
We analyse why this shift matters, how it constrains economic policy, and what it could mean for investors and developed economies in the years ahead.

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In this episode of Think Macro, Vincent Chailley, Group CIO of H2O AM, analyses the global AI investment boom and its macroeconomic implications. As trillions flow into data centres and big tech races to dominate the future, can these colossal investments truly extend US growth, or are they masking the next slowdown? The AI Innovation Cycle: Invest Now or Die Later explores whether today’s technological revolution is a sustainable driver of productivity or a costly illusion of momentum.

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Europe has gained resilience since the sovereign debt crisis: a stabilising common currency, low unemployment, and debt held largely by domestic institutions. Yet behind this reassuring façade, growth remains stagnant at barely above 1% per year. Declining competitiveness is gradually undermining the continent’s commercial independence.

In light of this, the challenge is clear: Europe must revive productivity and innovation to break free from inertia - otherwise, it risks increasing dependence on external global powers.

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After decades of US economic exceptionalism, driven by consumption, innovation, and financial dominance, cracks are appearing in the model. The return of inflation is constraining the Fed in its ability to sufficiently ease financial conditions in a downturn, and the US Treasury in its capacity to stimulate the economy without triggering a negative reaction from investors.

With fewer economic levers at its disposal, the US appears naturally headed for a slowdown, an outcome that may not necessarily be bad news for the rest of the world.

Meanwhile, China is asserting itself more strategically. Having already reduced its trade dependence on the U.S., it possesses the tools to transform its economy toward a model more focused on consumption rather than manufacturing.

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