Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, Ryan S.: How might the shutdown affect the U.S. economy? Shutdowns of the federal government usually don’t leave much economic damage. But the one that started Wednesday looks riskier , not least because President Donald Trump is threatening to use the standoff to permanently eliminate thousands of government jobs , and the state of the economy is already precarious. For now, financial markets are shrugging off the

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