Money Morning — "Government Shutdown 2015" to Start Oct. 1!

"The October 2013 government shutdown came with a $24 billion price tag as hundreds of thousands of furloughed workers took home smaller paychecks and small businesses were hobbled by frozen government contracts and payments," Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald told his Total Wealth research service readers on Sept. 18. "Consumer confidence went into the proverbial toilet and quarterly GDP growth fell from 3% to a middling 2.4%."

Now, exactly two years later, we're about to do it all over again.

Here we go again (rolling eyes). The clowns are restless.

According to Fitz-Gerald. "The way I see it, wingnuts on both sides of the aisle are playing chicken with an $18 trillion economy and world markets once again."

Uh no. The wingnuts are all on one side of the aisle. The clown side.

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"Government Shutdown 2015" to Start Oct. 1!

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Joe Firestone — Return of the Coin?

The last few weeks have seen at least two posts calling attention to the potential use of the platinum coin in America's political economy. The first to appear was Rob Urie's piece in Counterpunch provocatively titled: “The Trillion Dollar Catshit Coin” And the second was Mike Sandler's post in The Huffington Post called “Greece and the U.S. Senate: Economics for the 99%.…

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Return of the Coin?
letsgetitdone (Joe Firestone)