# Professor Lawrence White comments on the impact of the government shutdown on the retail industry

1 Faculty News January 11, 2019 ![retail dive logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Retail-Dive-logo-feature_0.jpg?itok=3-tORRZm)>

Excerpt from [Retail Dive](https://www.retaildive.com/news/how-the-government-shutdown-could-hurt-retail/545803/) -- "In short, the shutdown is tapping the economy's brakes, if only a little, warned Stern's White. 'It's just adding corrosiveness to the general climate, and it's adding friction,' he said. 'As an economist — unless you want to stop the car, in which case you want to apply as much friction as possible — that's not a good thing.'"

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