{"id":271751,"date":"2025-02-26T01:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/hello-nversion-my-old-friend\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:15","slug":"hello-nversion-my-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/hello-nversion-my-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello \u2018nversion, My Old Friend\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-55786\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As of today\u2019s close, the constant maturity 10yr-3mo spread is \u2026 0%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/termspreads_vix1a.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55788\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/termspreads_vix1a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/termspreads_vix1a.png 1008w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/termspreads_vix1a-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/termspreads_vix1a-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/termspreads_vix1a-624x357.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong> 10yr-3mo Treasury spread (blue, left scale), 10yr-2yr Treasury spread (red, left scale), both in %; VIX at close (green, right scale). Source: Treasury, CBOE via FRED.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the term spreads failure (so far) to predict the recession of 2024-25, I\u2019m not sure what to make of this. However, when <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/02\/conference-board-pessimism-about-the-future-returned\">combined with the measured collapse in expectations registered in the U.Michigan and Conference Board surveys<\/a>, this all hints at a fast deterioration in perceived economic trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/02\/hello-nversion-my-old-friend\" title=\"5:08 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-02-25T17:08:34-08:00\">February 25, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/02\/hello-nversion-my-old-friend\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As of today\u2019s close, the constant maturity 10yr-3mo spread is \u2026 0%. Figure 1: 10yr-3mo Treasury spread (blue, left scale), 10yr-2yr Treasury spread (red,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}