Bank executives head to the White House to discuss the government shutdown and efforts to raise the federal debt ceiling. How much influence do the bankers have?

One day after the biggest employer in the nation’s capital shut its doors, Washington's other businesses are trying to figure out what they’ll do.

In response to the shutdown of the federal government, we asked for your experiences with giving others financial ultimatums.

On any other day, Joe James would be working as a microbiologist with the EPA. But, after the government shutdown, he's not sure when he'll be back to work.

Investors seem to be tuning out the political impasse in Washington, at least so far.

The Italian government is in turmoil again, and that could damage the fragile European recovery.

Closed national parks. Non-essential government services ground to a halt. And the shutdown will cut into GDP.

Many businesses, in D.C. and around the country, have taken to giving furloughed workers discounts or freebies.