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Recession
6 guides in Finabase Learn
- GDP explained: how gross domestic product is measured and read What GDP counts, the C + I + G + NX arithmetic with real 2026 numbers, how annualized growth rates work, why the three estimates get revised, and how markets react.
- Inverted yield curve A yield curve on which short-term yields exceed long-term yields, which has preceded most US recessions since the 1960s.
- NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee The group of economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research that officially dates US recession peaks and troughs.
- Stagflation An economy suffering high inflation, weak or negative growth and rising unemployment at the same time, as the US did in the 1970s.
- The 2008 financial crisis: housing, Lehman, TARP and the 57% fall How the US housing bust became a global banking crisis, what happened around Lehman’s failure, how TARP and the Fed responded, and how the S&P 500 fell 57% in 2007–09.
- Yield curve inversion: what it signals and its recession record What an inverted yield curve is, why it has preceded US recessions, its full track record since 1966 including the 2022–2024 inversion, and 10y–3m versus 10y–2y.
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