What it is
This skill tracks the financial ripple effects when the US government shuts down. It monitors key indicators like Treasury cash balances, bank reserves, and overnight lending rates to show whether a shutdown is creating tightening conditions in money markets. Founders, finance teams, and anyone tracking macro conditions can get clear weekly updates on shutdown impact without needing economics expertise.
What it does
- Pulls live Treasury and Federal Reserve data to track liquidity during shutdowns
- Compares current conditions to historical shutdowns (2013, 2018-19) for context
- Generates charts showing Treasury balances, bank reserves, and funding rate changes
- Classifies market conditions as easing, tightening, stable, or mixed
- Produces plain-English summaries of whether shutdown effects are worsening or improving
Use it when
- You're tracking how a government shutdown affects markets or the economy
- You need to brief your team or stakeholders on liquidity conditions during fiscal disruptions
- You want to compare current shutdown effects to past episodes
- You're monitoring macro risks for business planning or investment decisions
Add this skill to your AI
Copy the source URL and ask your AI to add it. Most coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf — will fetch and install it for you.
Try this prompt:
Add this skill to my project: https://github.com/fleurytian/awesome-claude-skills/tree/main/us-gov-shutdown-tracker