The Sesame Street Jobs ‘Recovery’

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
03/21/2012

After deconstructing the labor report for signs of false positives, Michael Cembalest of JPMorgan, sees muddle-through data in the US as sustaining a below trend growth rate – noting his belief that the US economy would not withstand a withdrawal of stimulus (read promise of liqudity to come) right now. While not as ebulient as many on the street, the JPM CIO sees a US job market that is gradually getting better – as is spending. However, what keeps him up at night is the budget deficit (as we noted very specifically last night). Critically, jobless claims have just crossed a threshold that in the past has signaled risk-on is primed to pay-off as the business cycle becomes self-sustaining but at the same time, the budget deficit is at massively ‘different-this-time’ levels. As he notes: “But as Big Bird used to say, one of these things is not like the other: the US primary budget deficit which supports this recovery is a bigger now”, and so the US economy had better improve markedly in order to merely ‘pay-the-freight’.

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