# Professor Lawrence White shares his outlook on the US economy

1 Faculty News December 24, 2018 ![Fox Business logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031722.jpg?itok=a0Gxu60a)>

Excerpt from [Fox Business](https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5983214293001/?#sp=show-clips) -- "Markets are always looking forward, and they're worried. We have a government shutdown and perhaps... what happens in March when we have to have the national debt rolled over and renewed? We've got a Secretary of the Defense who has resigned and is being forced out early. There's just a lot of uncertainty, a lot of worry, and that doesn't make the markets feel very good."

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