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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShutdown Costs at $1.6 Billion With $160 Million Each Day
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-08/shutdown-costs-at-1-6-billion-with-160-million-each-day.htmlThe partial U.S. government shutdown has closed the gates to Alex Thevenins place of business: the Grand Canyon.
Her family-owned Arizona Raft Adventures in Flagstaff, Arizona, lost $80,000 last week in income from a group excursion down the Colorado River that didnt happen. Thevenins and five other small, whitewater businesses will lose almost $1 million because of canceled trips in the final few weeks of the 2013 rafting season, said John Dillon, executive director of the Grand Canyon River Outfitters Association in Flagstaff.
We had a great year until Sept. 30, Dillon said.
The shuttering of large parts of the federal government on Oct. 1 amid a fight over funding President Barack Obamas health-care law is hurting businesses big and small. Some, such as Thevenins, have already taken a hit to their bottom line. Others will suffer from slowed economic activity -- stocks declined yesterday, with the Standard & Poors 500 Index at almost a one-month low, and a Gallup poll released Oct. 4 showed consumer confidence had dropped to its lowest point since December 2011.
The shutdown cost $1.6 billion last week in lost economic output, according to IHS Inc. (IHS), a Lexington, Massachusetts-based global market-research firm. As the showdown enters its eighth day, the office closures are now draining an average of $160 million each workday from the $15.7 trillion economy.
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Shutdown Costs at $1.6 Billion With $160 Million Each Day (Original Post)
xchrom
Oct 2013
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Turbineguy
(37,332 posts)1. Yes, but the republican party is wasting the money.
So it doesn't actually count.
randome
(34,845 posts)2. Add to that the amount wasted trying to repeal ACA and you have GOP spending out of control.
They are undoing the savings from the Sequester. These numbers should be front and center in every conversation.
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