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Old 09-30-2013, 04:41 AM  
kane
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Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links View Post
last time just a "threat alone" caused the market to dip bad do to the speculation... imagine if it was a real shutdown what would have happened
There have been some shutdowns in the past. The longest one was 21 days from December 1995 into Jan 1996. I just looked it up and it says the stock market did fall 1.5% during that time.

Of course things were different then so the market may react differently this time.
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