Fortune: As the yield curve slips towards inversion, the recession warning light blinks red—again

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Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and research director of the Burkenroad Reports program, was interviewed for a story in Fortune about whether recent movement toward a yield curve inversion suggests an increased chance for recession.

"Consumer sentiment is terrific and the market is terrific, but all the surveys of CEOs say they expect a decline in the economy and I think, 'Who's got a better feel for that?'" said Peter Ricchiuti, a business professor at Tulane University who regularly speaks with small- to medium-cap company CEOs. "Everybody's at least cautious. In the long run the strength of the economy is in the population of working age people."

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