{"id":87385,"date":"2019-09-16T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=87385"},"modified":"2019-09-16T18:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:13:06","slug":"the-chart-that-predicts-recessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/the-chart-that-predicts-recessions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chart That Predicts Recessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A chart called the &#8220;yield curve&#8221; has predicted every US recession over the last 50 years. Now it might be predicting another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economic experts are starting to warn that a US recession is becoming more likely because of something called the &#8220;yield curve.&#8221; So what&#8217;s the yield curve? What does it show? And why is it bad if it &#8220;inverts?&#8221; We visualized the yield curve over the past four decades, to show why it&#8217;s so good at predicting recessions, and what it actually means when the curve changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The chart that predicts recessions\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xiiHjrewXNI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chart called the &#8220;yield curve&#8221; has predicted every US recession over the last 50 years. Now it might be predicting another one. Economic experts are starting to warn that a US recession is becoming more likely because of something called the &#8220;yield curve.&#8221; So what&#8217;s the yield curve? What does it show? And why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-events-sports-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}