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Do my friends, I'm just trying to save a little money.

My job is not just to entertain, but to teach explain days like today.

So call me 1-800-743CNBC or tweet me at Jim Kramer. We've been very

dismisses of this government shutdown on Wall Street. You know why? Because we've been through

so many on them. They usually mean nothing to the stock market. Well, it turns out this one is different.

The government's now been closed for 37 days with no sign whatsoever. The two parties

even trying to reach an agreement,

it's taking too darn long. At this point, it doesn't feel like a distraction anymore. In fact,

when you look at today's selling with the Dow sinking 399 points, S&B losing 1.12%, and then

NASDAQ coming 1.90%. I put a lot of these losses on the shutdown.

If only because we haven't been getting economic data from the government, so nobody knows what the heck is really happening.

And when you get that, it starts to freeze decision making.

Freeze the system.

Now, we do have some pieces of information, but they aren't good.

There's an employment service.

It's called Challenger Gray in Christmas, which puts out a monthly report on job cuts.

It's authoritative.

It's called the challenge report.

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