An inverse yield curve is always a red light flashing.

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Not even when my results showed such a flashing red light.

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And then he ignored both his allotment of five minutes for speaking, going on for 12, and a flashing red light telling him his time was up.

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In Tampa, when John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, departed from his approved script, a red light beneath the teleprompter began flashing frantically.

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