Thursday, September 7, 2017

Economic Impact of Major Recent Disasters [feedly]

Economic Impact of Major Recent Disasters
http://ritholtz.com/2017/09/economic-impact-major-disasters/

Amazing chart via FiveThirtyEight: Estimates of Harvey's cost vary, with some predicting that the storm will be the most expensive in U.S. history at over $190 billion, surpassing Hurricane Katrina. (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimatesKatrina to have cost around $160 billion.) If that ends up being the case, it would greatly increase the total cost of billion-dollar-plus…

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