The Costs of the Government Shutdown: 24 billion with a "b"

[jeffreyi]

"The 16-day government shutdown is over, but the country has taken at least a $24 billion hit along the way.
The financial ratings agency Standard & Poor’s said Wednesday the shutdown “to date has taken $24 billion out of the economy,” equaling $1.5 billion dollars a day and “shaved at least 0.6 percent off annualized fourth-quarter 2013 GDP growth.”

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/the-costs-of-the-government-shutdown/