QOTD: Atrios
by digby
Why this isn’t a really a game:
The longer this shutdown goes on, the more chance that the just barely recovery reverses itself. It’s one thing to have a recession after a boom period, quite another to have a recession before there was really a recovery from the last one.
And, yes, I’m always negative about the economy, but, you know, 5 years later and unemployment is at 7.3%.
I’d just add that the real unemployment rate is actually around 10%.
Update: Oh hey, look at this:
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