The macroeconomic environment that has underpinned the global financial markets for the past 25 years is clearly transforming, with potentially profound implications for how investors should think about asset prices and market structures. Indeed, we believe this reshaping of the macro landscape—nothing short of "regime change"—is likely to challenge (and maybe even overturn) many of today's long-held investment assumptions. Nowhere is this more true than on the global inflation and interest-rate fronts. The so-called "easy money" era—a multi-decade period marked by historically low inflation and ultra-accommodative monetary policy—is over.   

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