🇺🇸 US Shutdown: shocking numbers
- ✈️ 5 million passengers affected by delays and cancellations of flights
- 💸 $619 billion of new federal debt
- 📉 Federal statistical system labeled "permanently damaged"
- 📊 October data on employment and inflation may never appear
- ⏳ 43 days of economic statistics postponed
- 👥 750,000 workers sent on forced leave
What this means for the economy
- Data loss: The Fed and investors are left without key indicators.
- Debt: an additional $619 billion undermines confidence in government bonds, increases pressure on the dollar.
- Political risk: the shutdown demonstrated the weakness of the governance system.
- Social effect: many Americans without salaries and access to support programs.
Reaction of the crypto market
- Bitcoin: amid distrust of the dollar, correcting to $99K.
- Ethereum: follows the movement $BTC , but interest in DeFi remains stable.
- Altcoins: most are in the red zone.
The shutdown became record-breaking and revealed weak spots in the traditional economy:
- 📉 Data and trust loss → risk for traditional assets.
- 🚀 Cryptocurrencies confirmed their role as "crisis instruments."
