by Josh Schafer at yahoo! finance
The US economy has avoided slipping into recession all year, but one closely watched indicator shows it’s on the brink.
Usually, yields on longer-maturity bonds exceed those of shorter ones. An inverted yield curve happens when the reverse occurs.
Some track the spread between 2-year and 10-year Treasury notes for signs of an inverted yield curve. But Canadian economist Campbell Harvey’s definition uses the difference between three-month bills and 10-year notes, a spread which turned negative in November 2022. It’s a perfect 8-for-8 in predicting every recession since World War II.
The amount of time it takes after the inversion for the economy to fall into a recession can vary. The past four recessions occurred when the spread between the two yields narrowed and came close to reverting back to normal. That is what is happening now…
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