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Does the flatter yield curve signal a slowdown in GDP growth?

Yield curve inversions have been near-perfect leading indicators of recessions over the past forty years, but there is little evidence to suggest that the flattening of the curve that we have seen recently will be followed by a slowdown in GDP growth.

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