Very little unless you were a "non-essential" government department worker. They were furloughed in 1995 as I recall, until an agreement was reached
Yep! It's kind of just a show. Nothing important will really shut down. Everyone will still get their social security checks.......
It doesn't exactly inspire confidence that we can turn the economy around if we can't even keep the doors open. My guess is that it would create increased flight to safety.
In all fairness, I think they should get docked. The rest of the world works that way! Anyway, back to the subject...I don't think a government shutdown will affect the PM market near as much as the stock market.