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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.

Today on The Indicator: What the warning signals in the economy mean, and what you should (or shouldn’t) do about them. With @cardiffgarcia and @titonka https://t.co/5JW55ZVOyx

Source: http://twitter.com/theindicator/status/1154495300792401920 Today on The Indicator: The trade war between the U.S. and China was supposed to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy, but so far… *crickets* https://t.co/CyurXs1mP6 pic.twitter.com/ANNJK9vJ62 — The Indicator (@theindicator) July 25, 2019

Last year, Coca-Cola warned investors to brace for the economic backlash of President Trump's trade war with China. But this week, the CEO of Coca-Cola basically said, actually we're fine. No trade war impact.

With the threat of yet more tariffs looming, the full effect of the trade war on the U.S. economy is still unknown — we're still waiting for the tariff storm.

Source: http://twitter.com/theindicator/status/1143633956497166336

Today on The Indicator: what makes a protest movement successful? Turns out there might be a recipe for revolution. https://t.co/FvlUYenovn

— The Indicator (@theindicator) June 25, 2019

Millions of people recently took to the streets of Hong Kong, protesting an extradition bill that they say could erode their freedoms and tighten China's grip on the territory. How likely are they to get what they want?

It turns out there may be a way to predict the success of the protest, and other popular uprisings around the world. Erica Chenoweth, a professor of public policy at Harvard, teamed up with non-violence researcher Maria Stephan to crunch the data on political protests, and they found that there is an almost foolproof recipe for a successful revolution.

Source: http://twitter.com/theindicator/status/1141082211359383560

Japan went through a brutal recession during the 1990s. Today, the country’s central bank is using some innovative and controversial tools to bring the economy back, as @pboykoff explains 👉 https://t.co/lGz091G4PC

— The Indicator (@theindicator) June 18, 2019

In the 1980s, the Japanese economy looked unstoppable. But come the 90s, everything changed. The stock index took a hit, falling nearly 40 percent in 1990 alone. Commercial real estate prices followed. Retail prices began to slide and when it became clear that asset prices weren't going to recover soon, people stopped spending. Japan's economy ground to a halt.

Source: http://twitter.com/theindicator/status/1096184250011926528

We get a lot of emails with questions, so today, we find the answers to three of them on age discrimination, the number of workers in the economy, and how work is measured.https://t.co/dKwcr0Ss2H pic.twitter.com/eqnIp2SMpG

— The Indicator (@theindicator) February 14, 2019

Hasbro is set for a contentious proxy vote on June 8th. Today, we explain what a proxy battle is and why some investors are urging the toy company to make games like Dungeons & Dragons the centerpiece of the business. https://t.co/tiGTb1ONqm

The recent shooting in Uvalde is putting gun manufacturers under scrutiny as their stock prices rise. Today, two indicators on the relationship between guns and financial markets. https://t.co/1IUQqPNF8b