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Why there is so much near-certainty about the worst case.

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The Marginal Predictive Power of the Yield Spread

Abundo: I think a good place to start investigating deflationary recessions as they pertain to forward interest rates is by looking at Benati and Goodheart's 2007 paper. They found that there are two main explanations why the nominal yield spread may contain information on future output growth, one dealing with the workings of monetary policy; the other with the interaction between intertemporal consumption smoothing. As we know from the 2018 experience, it would be difficult to have such a major policy error leading to a 2019 recession, which I believe was going to happen before the pandemic interrupted.

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