The nearest thing the global economy has to a doomsday clock ticked a little closer to midnight this past week, triggering fear across financial markets.
Last Wednesday, the US yield curve - the slope formed by the interest rate paid by Treasury bonds of various maturities - turned upside-down for the first time since the summer of 2007, with the US government now paying less to borrow for 10 years than two years.
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