As the economic and employment recovery continues to be slow, the Federal Reserve announced that the central bank will buy $600 billion in long-term Treasuries over the next eight months — a policy known as quantitative easing.

This second round of monetary stimulus, dubbed QE2, is the government’s attempt to encourage spending by making it cheaper to borrow money. Critics believe too much stimulus could lead to excessive inflation that could endanger economic stability over the long term.

We used Social Radar to run analysis on Fed chair Ben Bernanke and QE2 over the past two days. Conversations around both Bernanke and QE2 are both overwhelmingly negative.

Topics of conversation in red below represent negative chatter.

The word ‘risk’ is appearing in an astounding 30% of posts on these topics.

Will this round of stimulus help after the previous $2 trillion in similar purchases have not jolted spending?

President Obama has been busy during his first 100 days in office — confronting an economic crisis, addressing rising healthcare costs, promoting clean energy innovation and restoring confidence. Nearly two out of three Americans approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. We decided to measure web chatter volume for the biggest issues during President Obama’s first 100 days. Not surprisingly, chatter around the stimulus package led all topics overall. But at the moment, healthcare is the hottest topic.