macro · settles Oct 1, 2026

Federal government shutdown begins October 1

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Federal government shutdown begins October 1

settles Oct 1, 2026 · AI 1.0%

AI Projection · P(target | catalyst = YES)98.3%▼ −0.7 pts

A lapse in appropriations is contractionary and suspends the federal statistical releases the Committee reads, both of which argue for holding rather than moving. Against a marginal of 0.61 for the target and 0.12 for the source, that conditional implies a coefficient of -0.5274 in log-odds, and a probability of 0.6277 for the target when the source does not occur.

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