Exacerbating recession fears, Trump diverts blame to Fed for 'CRAZY INVERTED YIELD CURVE!'

Jerome Powell.
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The president has weighed in on the possibly, but maybe not actually ominous inverted yield curve.

President Trump isn't a fan of the "crazy" inversion, but unlike many of his critics who have placed America's trade war with China front and center when it comes to reasons why a global recession might be looming, he's pointing to a different problem — and it's not one of the items on Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman's smorgasbord of economic issues, either.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.