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This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Every Monday, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Nathan Dean gives his insights into what’s been happening and what’s coming up in the nooks and crannies of government and markets. Sign up here. Email our editors here. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. While spending most of Halloween evening telling my son and his friends to get off people’s lawns and use sidewalks, I also had a chance to catch up with friends who want to know when the government shutdown will end. And while my answer is that there’s no end in sight, this week could be key.