{"id":45328,"date":"2019-04-13T07:51:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T12:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45328"},"modified":"2019-04-13T07:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T12:52:17","slug":"imminent-recession-risk-doubled-3-signals-sounding-the-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45328","title":{"rendered":"Imminent Recession Risk \u201cDoubled\u201d \u2013 3 Signals Sounding the Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birchgold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/risk-4-12-19-1.png\" alt=\"recession risk signals\" class=\"wp-image-14712\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birchgold.com\/news\/imminent-recession-risk-doubled-3-signals-sounding-alarm\/\">Imminent Recession Risk \u201cDoubled\u201d \u2013 3 Signals Sounding the Alarm<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been more than 10 years since the last economic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birchgold.com\/news\/recession-lessons-not-learned-leveraged-loan-risk-soars-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recession<\/a>. Since the U.S. economy generally operates in cycles, it looks like the time is drawing near for another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, late last year the Dow Jones took a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birchgold.com\/news\/2018-in-review-pensions-rate-hikes-and-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dive<\/a>, but that was likely just an appetizer for the course to come\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-04-09\/guggenheim-says-chance-of-recession-in-24-months-has-doubled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a>&nbsp;from Bloomberg reported the risk of a recession has \u201cmore than doubled this year as leading economic indicators deteriorate, the yield curve inverts and monetary policy tightens,\u201d referencing a note by Guggenheim Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, according to CIO Scott Minerd, it appears the next recession could last longer than the previous one (emphasis ours):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The next recession will not be as severe as the last one, but&nbsp;<strong>it could be more prolonged than usual<\/strong>&nbsp;because policymakers at home and abroad have limited tools to fight the downturn\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Guggenheim oversees $200 billion as an investment banking firm. They issued this dire warning along with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guggenheiminvestments.com\/perspectives\/macroeconomic-research\/recession-update-how-severe-will-recession-be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">major concerns<\/a>&nbsp;about corporate debt, a severe stock market drop, and uncertainty about the Fed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Debt, Yield Curve Inversion &amp; QE Signaling Recession Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve previously reported that U.S. National, corporate, and consumer debt are at all-time highs. This dangerous \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birchgold.com\/news\/debt-trifecta-all-time-highs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debt trifecta<\/a>\u201d has even gotten the attention of several billionaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rising national debt currently tops&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/government-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$22 trillion<\/a>. Corporate debt topped&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/NCBDBIA027N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$6 trillion<\/a>&nbsp;at the end of 2018. And the \u201cATM\u201d of consumer debt has hit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/TOTALSL?utm_source=series_page&amp;utm_medium=related_content&amp;utm_term=related_resources&amp;utm_campaign=categories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$4 trillion<\/a>. Americans are tapped out. Combined together, this signal alone should sound recession alarms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is just one of multiple major warning signs\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The yield curve is dangerously close to inverting at only&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/resource-center\/data-chart-center\/interest-rates\/Pages\/TextView.aspx?data=yield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">16 basis points<\/a>&nbsp;between 2- and 10-year treasuries. What\u2019s even more troubling is yield curve&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birchgold.com\/news\/yield-curve-poised-to-invert-where-will-fed-go-from-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inversion<\/a>&nbsp;has preceded&nbsp;<em>every<\/em>&nbsp;major recession over the last 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imminent Recession Risk \u201cDoubled\u201d \u2013 3 Signals Sounding the Alarm It\u2019s been more than 10 years since the last economic&nbsp;recession. Since the U.S. economy generally operates in cycles, it looks like the time is drawing near for another. In fact, late last year the Dow Jones took a&nbsp;dive, but that was likely just an appetizer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18769,195,1675,1849],"class_list":["post-45328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-birch-gold-group","tag-debt","tag-economic-cycles","tag-financial-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45329,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45328\/revisions\/45329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}