from george mason university, he is their senior research fellow, jason fichtner. he is joined by rudy penner. now that it is over, how do we gauge the long-term economic effects of what happened in the past three weeks he echo -- three weeks? caller: we have been going through threats of shutdown and threats of violating the debt limit for quite a well now. oft has caused a lot uncertainty in the business community with consumers. important, it has caused extraordinary disillusion with the government. i think those two things have a depressing effect on decision- making and on the economy. i saw an estimate of macro economic advisers that suggested that over the last few years we have lost about .3% per year of economic growth. >> agosta the idea of uncertainty as far as investors and how the community looks at the way we conduct business even on capitol hill. would you agree with that he echo -- with that? caller: this isn't over yet. all we have done is kick the can down to generate 15th. the generate 15 state is decided -- is created to create another brick men

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