Government shutdown 2015: The full cost of a government shutdown that lasted 16 days in October 2013 was staggering - it delivered a $24 billion blow to the U.S. economy and taxpayers.
Now, exactly two years later, we're about to do it all over again.
"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," Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald told his Total Wealth research service readers on Sept. 18.