Saturday, October 6, 2012

Zero Hedge — Goldman On The Not-So-Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Fiscal Cliff Scenarios That Remain

Even if both the Bush tax cuts and emergency unemployment insurance are extended, the 'sequester' is mostly postponed, and the fresh fiscal drag is confined to the expiration of the payroll tax cut and the new taxes to pay for Obamacare, Goldman estimates suggest that fiscal policy would shave nearly 1.5% from real GDP growth in early 2013. While it seems the 'market' believes that some compromise will be enough to lift the market to new stratospheric heights; we believe, as does Goldman, that the risks are almost exclusively on the downside of this 'not so good' fiscal scenario.
Goldman letter follows.

Zero Hedge
Goldman On The Not-So-Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Fiscal Cliff Scenarios That Remain
Tyler Durden

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