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The BIS just released its Annual Economic Report. Most of it will not make the news cycle. One chapter should. The central bank of central banks looked at the current AI capex boom and did something unusual for a technical report. It named the historical analogs. Canal mania. British railway mania. 1920s electrification. The dotcom boom. The BIS is not saying AI is not real. It is saying the pattern of the investment behavior around it looks like every previous general-purpose technology cycle. Big, simultaneous, debt-funded, and priced on the assumption that only a few players will dominate. The numbers are the tell. The five largest hyperscalers are on pace to spend more than $1 trillion on AI capex across 2025 and 2026 combined. That already exceeds their earnings and free cash flow. Some are issuing debt to close the gap. Every one of them is making the same bet, at the same time, for the same reason. The BIS did not call it a bubble. It called it a pattern. And it flagged the mechanism most executives underestimate. Disappointment in returns triggers a pullback in financing. The pullback turns the capex boom into a protracted investment bust. The bust hits balance sheets that were sized for the boom. None of this is a call to sit out AI. It is a call to build capital structures that survive it if it turns. Every previous mania in this pattern ended with two kinds of survivors. The infrastructure got used. The overleveraged builders did not always survive to see it. The question is not whether AI is transformative. It is which side of that split you are structured to land on. If you track how central banks read cycles, and what that means for capital planning, follow along. I post on this every week.

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