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Understanding the Yield Curve

Understanding the Yield Curve

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Feb 09, 2008
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One of the puzzles of recent financial history has been the repeated failure of a flattening or inversion of the yield curve reliably to signal economic doom. Repeatedly since 1990, economists and others have greeted this phenomenon as a harbinger of forthcoming economic trouble, and just as repeatedly it hasn’t turned out that way.

For laymen, the yield…

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