The R-Word

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Our inbox is blowing up with people worried that there might be a recession on the way. A lot of this had to do with the events of last week when the U.S. stock market became highly volatile, another part of the yield curve inverted, and other countries began registering some economic difficulty that could feed back to the U.S.

A lot of people got a little freaked out, which is understandable - the last downturn was a doozy, and prospect of a full-on recession is a frightening one, after the long bull run we've just been through. So what to do? We answer a couple of listener questions about what the signals mean and what we should do about them.

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