What I find crazy is the this isn't the first or even second time it's happened. This is the 17th time it's occured since 1976 and 5 of those have been for more than 10 days. I had some interesting conversations with a number of my US friends about it last night, the general consensus being, "...crazy fucking politicos will do what crazy fucking politicos do..."
Some interesting reading about shutdowns and their effects on the stockmarkets :
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2...t-debt-ceiling
Pixie