Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's shutdown, the economy, and the disconnect.

It's been a bad few days for economic news, and it highlights the growing disconnect between the actual economy and the perception of it by those on the top.

Okay, so first we have Trump's shutdown.

Republicans, despite having majorities in both houses, refuse to fix the one big broken bill and its impacts on working class Americans. So now we're in a

shutdown. The last government shutdown caused $11 billion in economic damage. Three billion was never

recovered. If Trump follows through with his mass firing threats, the economic damage from this shutdown

will be immense. He'll make a bad problem worse, because it isn't just those people being fired

who lose out, but all of the businesses they shop at. Then we have the payroll company ADP

releasing their jobs numbers.

It suggests that U.S. private sector businesses lost 32,000 jobs in September.

Even worse, the previous month was downwardly revised into the negative as well.

ADP's chief economists said, quote,

in fact, though the numbers changed,

the story and the narrative and the trend remain the same.

Hiring momentum has slowed from the beginning of the year through September.

That's bad economic news,

especially when Trump is threatening to compound the problem by firing government workers. It's even more unsettling because government numbers won't likely be coming because of the shutdown.

Then we have the price of gold. Investors use gold as a safe haven.

When the price of gold goes up, it's generally bad news for the economy as a whole. Gold hit a record

$3,858.458. And 45 cents per Troy ounce.

Trump slapped more tariffs on lumber and on cabinets.

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