President Barack Obama

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress during primetime television viewing hours on the evening of February 24.

One month in office amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, President Barack Obama will seek to reassure the nation while walking a fine line in also telling Americans the bitter truth about how bad the economic situation is. Having just passed a stimulus bill to jumpstart the economy, the Obama administration must now attend to the banking crisis. During his address, Obama may touch on the thorny issue of whether or not the government should nationalize troubled U.S. banks.

There will be much anticipation in the United States and around the world as to what Barack Obama’s message on the global economic crisis will be.