If I recall, the last yield curve inversion “predicted” a recession that happened nearly 3 years later. Another inversion hasn’t even happened yet, so what we have is a prediction of a predictor of an eventual recession. I’m not ready to panic.
You are correct and even a recession itself is nothing to panic over, it’s completely normal and necessary. It brings new opportunities. The only alternative to expansions and contractions following each other is a steady state economy. I know you don’t want that.
Financial journalism has gone tabloid. It’s all about clicks, and you have less than a second to catch someone passing by. “If it bleeds it leads” pertains to financial writing too, even if the bleeding is imaginary.