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Yield Curve: You Asked, We Answer : The Indicator from Planet Money The yield curve is inverted! We answer a few questions we have gotten from our listeners about our beloved recession predicting indicator.

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Yield Curve: You Asked, We Answer

Yield Curve: You Asked, We Answer

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Our co-host Cardiff Garcia really loves analyzing the yield curve as an economic indicator. The yield curve recently inverted, and we have gotten many questions from our listeners.

Should we expect a recession? If so, how soon? Is there really a relationship between the inversion and a recession, or is it all a coincidence?

Today on The Indicator, we answer these questions and explain our yield curve obsession.

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