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Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:45 pm
by Tom Mazanec
800,000 Federal workers without pay, 4.1 million contractors in limbo:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/02/amid-th ... -food.html
42 million SNAP recipients, 7 million WIC recipients face loss of food stamps March 1:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government ... 018-01-09/
A typical story:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/06/us/shutd ... index.html
Fitch may downgrade US credit rating:
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/4245 ... dit-rating
Re: Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:34 pm
by Tom Mazanec
Re: Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 4:11 pm
by Tom Mazanec
Re: Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 3:27 pm
by Tom Mazanec
Re: Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:06 am
by Tom Mazanec
Consumer confidence plunging:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/busi ... onomy.html
Other problems of the shutdown:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... orkers-gdp
Shutdown is economic self-harm:
https://www.economist.com/united-states ... -self-harm
Many optimists seem to be linearly extrapolating the economic effects of earlier shutdowns. But shutdown effects grow exponentially, not linearly. And IMHO Trump and the Democrats are playing chicken, and I think they are both stubborn enough to collide.
Re: Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:38 am
by Tom Mazanec
Re: Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:49 pm
by Tom Mazanec
Re: Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:48 pm
by Tom Mazanec
Re: Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 9:21 am
by Tom Mazanec
Re: Economics of government shutdown
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:14 am
by Tom Mazanec