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Monday, May 24, 2010

I Know What Keeps Obama Awake at Night II via @zerohedge

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Submitted by madhedgefundtrader on 05/24/2010 08:06 -0500

* Ben Bernanke
* Crude
* Equity Markets
* Iran
* Japan
* national health care
* Recession
* TARP
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Benefits



While Obama spent the weekend shorting through contradictory primary results, trying to figure out what next to say about the Gulf oil spill, and basking in the afterglow of his Senate win on financial reform, a potential nightmare is giving him sleepless nights.

The $887 billion stimulus wad has now been mostly spent or committed, delivering us with a couple of quarters of decent growth. The effect was no doubt help by the Fed’s ZIRP strategy and massive housing subsidies. The “V” is in. Once the effects of this spendfest wear off, we slip back into a deep recession, setting up the classic “W.” Unemployment stays stick in the high nines, and around 18% when you throw in discouraged job seekers, jobless college graduates, and those with expired unemployment benefits, and the underemployed. This afflicted Franklin D. Roosevelt in the thirties.

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Greg

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