The price of political incompetence? About $300 million per day.
That’s how much a government shutdown will cost the U.S. in lost economic output, according to an analysis from IHS Global Insight. As Bloomberg notes, that’s less than a fraction of a percent of nation’s $15.7 trillion economy, but it’s not an insignificant amount of money.
To put that in perspective: $300 million is about what Beyoncé is worth. It's also about equal to the cost of 65.8 million Big Macs, the profits from the first Hunger Games movie and about $50 million less than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos paid for The Washington Post earlier this year.
