One of the crowd's favorite yield curve pairings (the spread on 10-year less 3-month Treasuries) has been signaling elevated US recession risk since May. As of yesterday (Aug. 14), the 10-year/2-year spread has gone over to the dark side too. That alone doesn't insure that economic output will slump in the near term, but it's a clear message that the crowd has increased its collective bet that a US downturn is approaching.
It's all about the market's probability estimates rather than fate. But if you're inclined to consider yield curves' implied economic forecasts, the sight