The shutdown makes the Fed's decision-making much easier: Instead of "tapering" its stimulative bond purchases as it hoped to do starting right about now, it will have no choice but to continue its policies indefinitely.
But the shutdown made calculating market indexes like the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index impossible.
BARACK OBAMA'S speech announcing the end of the shutdown made me think about the literary critic Stanley Fish's idea of interpretive communities.
The recent federal government shutdown did not help Mr. Lhota: 47 percent of likely voters said that the shutdown made them more likely to vote for a Democrat, while only 6 percent said it prompted them to back a Republican.
A substantial and powerful portion of the conservative electorate are pretty happy about this; the applause John Boehner received from his colleagues at the word "shutdown" made that pretty clear.
But the movement's influence on Congressional Republicans — its willingness to press its principles right up to the brink of a government shutdown, make life difficult for its own party's leaders and take provocative positions on issues like Medicare — have also sparked a countermovement from the left focused on income inequality, and provided Mr. Obama another chance to occupy the center.
The shutdown makes sense given the overlap between the two initiatives, Map Maker and Local Guides.
The partial government shutdown made it clear the Republican Party has been cleaved into two factions, so-called moderate establishment Republicans and more strident Tea Party Republicans pushing for confrontation.
The shutdown made donors wary, says Swen Lorenz, the foundation's CEO, and put the foundation in a financial bind as it was depending on those revenues to get through 2014.
More than anything, this shutdown makes me realize that the cult of startup success, exacerbated by the spin from this and other publications, may not entirely be the positive driving force we posit it to be.
