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Bloomberg.com, and of course, on the Bloomberg. Joining us now I'm pleased to say is a man whose work has taken him from the

Federal Reserve to the International Monetary Fund to City and now to the

Milken Institute where he joins us from. It's Bill Lee, the chief economist of the Milken. the

chief economist of the Milken Institute.

It's great to catch up with you, Mr. Bill Lee.

Can we just begin with the government shutdown

and how much longer does this need to go on

before you start having to revise your first quarter

GDP estimate in the United States?

Well, I think this is a lot of noise and I think the market's treating it like a lot of noise,

so I don't think we'll do anything to our

GDP numbers because let's face it the government workers get paid regardless and

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