Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A new study used a scientific approach developed to measure human skulls to predict a 70 percent chance of economic recession in the next six months.
Researchers at MIT Sloan School of Business and Boston's State Street Associates applied economic data from four factors to the principles of the Mahanobis distance, a measurement tool for human skulls. They created an index combining industrial production, non-farm payrolls, stock market return and the slope of the yield curve [the interest rates of bonds having equal credit quality but differing maturity dates].