conceptual image of close up one hundred dollar billgettyWant to hear something really scary?The ongoing government shutdown, now in its second month, is projected to cost the U.S. economy as much as $14 billion, the equivalent of a 2 percentage point hit to gross domestic product (GDP).That’s according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which adds that most, but not all, of the shutdown’s negative effects could be reversed once the government reopens—whenever that happens.As if that were ...