It is estimated by leading economic research firms that the government shutdown which ended this week will cost our economy several billions of dollars. However, the bigger damage will be visible in the damage of consumer confidence and other business issues. Basically, 3 weeks of a shutdown government will cost the United States government 3.1 Billion dollars in gross domestic product from lost government services.
It is added that due to the shutdown, the access to data to help analyze the shutdown is seriously delayed. It will be hard to evaluate the full extent of the damage until this information is available.
The shutdown caused a lot of issues, even going as far as depriving fishermen of their paychecks as they could not be issued fishing permits during the shutdown.
