Welcome to the Jill on Money Show.

It's Thursday, October 2nd.

So a couple of things.

Number one, I know it's Yom Kippur, Jewish listeners.

I am taping this yesterday.

I'm taping this on Wednesday afternoon.

And I wanted to make sure that we added something to the podcast feed about

the government shutting down, which it is now shut down. And I know that this is unnerving to a lot of

folks. So I thought that we might be able to interrupt our normal programming and give you a

segment that I did this morning, that is

today being Wednesday, and it will still hold. But I want everyone to kind of take a deep

breath and understand that those of you who are impacted, especially negatively impacted by

this shutdown and by the furlough,

please do get in touch with us. Go to jillunmoney.com, click the contact us button, write us

a note. We will give you priority. You will go to the front of the line and we will take

care of each other as a community because that is what we do. So I want to play this segment

and then on the other side of it, I want to talk a little bit about your investments during this

time and some of the impact that you might see going forward. So here is yesterday morning's segment on CBS mornings. Your anchors are Vladimir

Dutier, Gail King, and Tony DeCopal. How is a shutdown going to wash through the economy?

Well, first of all, we know that the most direct impact are federal workers in the military,

these workers, people who are deemed essential, who have to

show up to work and not get paid. I can't put a finer point on this that the personal financial

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