Rortybomb, a blogger and financial engineer from San Francisco posted an interesting spreadsheet based on the stress test results. Hunting through the stress test results, he found a chart on page 6 with ‘Baseline’ and ‘More Advanced’ numbers. Since that’s enough to do a linear extrapolation (of course, with two data points that probably isn’t the most accurate way to do it… see his background post) allowing you to set your own estimate for worst case unemployment numbers. Read on…
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