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Is The Inverted Yield Curve The Financial Fakeout Of 2019?
Published Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at: 7:00 AM EDT
The day the yield curve inverted, on Wednesday, August 14th, stocks plunged and financial headlines turned grim.
Should you worry? Or is the yield curve inversion the financial fakeout of 2019?
"Longer-term rates below shorter term rates are a clear signal from bond investors that they think the United States economy is on the downswing," reported The New York Times' senior economics correspondent, Neil Irwin, "that its future looks worse than its present." But this widely-reported storyline in the financial press misses important context.
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