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About Martha Kennedy
In early 2007, Martha Kennedy published a now-cited working paper identifying the simultaneous inversion of three yield curve segments, not just the 10s-3s spread, as a near-perfect precursor to recessions since 1969. She later testified before the Senate Banking Committee in 2008, arguing that credit default swap spreads on investment-grade corporates had crossed a structural threshold months before the Lehman collapse, a signal most models ignored because it wasn’t tied to equity volatility. Her methodology treats market stress not as noise but as layered language: liquidity premiums, repo rate dislocations, and options skew asymmetries are parsed as dialects within the same warning system. She refuses to isolate indicators, insisting downturns emerge from convergent fractures across funding markets, not single metrics. That perspective shaped the Fed’s 2019 stress-test redesign and informs her current work tracking collateral rehypothecation chains in shadow banking.
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- “What’s the earliest reliable signal you’ve seen before a recession — and why do most analysts miss it?”
- “How do repo market anomalies in March 2020 compare to those in October 2008?”
- “Which indicator do you watch most closely right now — and what threshold would trigger your 'caution' call?”
- “Why did you reject using VIX alone in your 2012 crisis-timing model?”