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Listen to Buffett and Powell: It's good to be a large financial institution
People and local governments are in for a rough ride when it comes to the intensifying physical risks of climate change
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Susan Crawford
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Praising Florida's insurance market while criticizing California's misses the point
The country needs new ideas and new institutions. Insurers could help by remembering nobler moments in their history.
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California's FAIR Plan needs a billion-dollar bailout after the deadly LA fires
Other insurers are coming up with ways to lower risks--to people's lives, and to their own bottom lines
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James Hansen says we're underestimating global warming acceleration — is anyone listening?
If climate models are incomplete in the ways Hansen suggests, seas may rise very quickly over the next few decades
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January 2025

Municipal bonds continuing on despite physical climate risk
There may be a deal to be done using the federal tax exemption, but no one except the people who live here in the future will like it
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Susan Crawford
LA's Hurricane Andrew
The fires will trigger increased shifting of risk to individuals. This time, federal support is uncertain.
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Why pushing to rebuild quickly in LA is both understandable and unthinkable
Short term thinking even as a loud warning about the effects of accelerating climate change on global financial wellbeing rings out
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What happens when a state insurer of last resort goes belly-up?
A possible next act in this new drama: California
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Returning snowbirds may consider renting instead of buying in Florida
A look at the overlapping, amplifying risks to Florida real estate
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Susan Crawford

December 2024

Why rising home insurance costs have consequences for the trillion dollar structured credit world
Physical climate risk isn't just the insurance industry's problem. The rest of us will end up paying the bill. The question is when.
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What a shortage of IV bags tells us about the impact of climate change on supply chains
A plant producing most of the nation's IV bags was wiped out by Hurricane Helene. It's another warning of financial risk.
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What the 2008 financial crisis tells us about the looming threat to the municipal bond market
Unpriced physical climate risks pose a direct challenge to the stability of the municipal bond market, echoing the financial crisis of 2008—but with…
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