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Nobody cares about the looming US government shutdown

Published by Business Insider on Thu, 24 Sep 2015


Another US government shutdown could be on the horizonas theRepublicans insist that the government cut off all funding for Planned Parenthood.But, so far, no one really cares.In a recent note to clients, Citi's Jeremy Hale and his team shared a chart showing two reflections of this: the US Economic Policy Uncertainty News-Based Index in blue and the Bloomberg News Story Keyword Search "shutdown" in red. Both suggest thatpeople are not interested in readingabout the looming government shutdownor what it would mean for the economy.Both measures look pretty depressed, especially relative to the same period ahead of the government shutdown of 2013."A US government shutdown next week is far from assured but concerns are mounting," writes Hale. "The media is currently focused on other things it seems, hence the limited airtime this topic has garneredso far."The US Economic Policy Uncertainty News-Based Index, as the name suggests, measures policy-related economic uncertainty. The index is built from newspaper coverage of policy-related economic uncertainty, and"aims to capture uncertainty aboutwhowill make economic policy decisions,whateconomic policy actions will be undertaken, and the economiceffectsof policy action (and inaction),"write thecreators of the index,Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis.Generally speaking, this index has spikedduring tight presidential elections, past government shutdowns, debt ceiling debates, and the 9/11 attacks. At the micro-level, policy uncertainty "increases stock-price volatility and reduces investment and employment" in government sectors, and at the macro-level, it foreshadows "declines in investment, output, and employment." (You can read more here.)But in this chart, the index is pretty low relative to the rest of the data over the last six years. And,furthermore, it is much lower than the last time agovernment shutdown loomed.As for the second line, it measures how many times people search the term shutdown. Back in 2013 during the first government shutdown, there was an insane spikeand during the last 6 years nothing has come even close to that. Butright now, it's also really low.Admittedly, if you look closely, you can see that there's a slight increase in both lines over the last month or sobut relative to the last government shutdown, it's basically nothing.And, in any case, even if therewasa government shutdown, it might not even have a huge effect on the economy."Are shutdowns bad for the economy' The short answer is: not as bad as you may think," Societe Generale's Aneta Markowska previously noted. "During these episodes, the impact on economic activity was either negligible or very short-lived."SEE ALSO:The 27 scariest moments from the financial crisisJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: RED EVERYWHERE: It's a global market meltdown
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