Was just about to post about Roma wedding rituals when a health-insurance catastrophe struck. Can’t believe how hard they’re screwing us right now—jetting into town to see if I can fix anything through bribery and/or high-volume yelling. Back soon.
Entries Tagged as 'insurance'
If Vulcan Rears His Head
February 17th, 2010 · 6 Comments
Because so few potential clients are directly threatened by volcanoes, the insurance industry hasn’t developed sophisticated models to estimate damage due to cataclysmic eruptions. But sooner or later, a volcano located near a major population center is going to blow, and government cash alone may not be enough to heal the economic wounds. Could the […]
Tags:economics·Indonesia·insurance·Italy·Mount Tambora·Mount Vesuvius·volcanoes
If the Cosmos Turn Against Us
November 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Of all the sundry worries that vex us every day, annihilation by celestial object is fairly low on the list. The same can’t be said of the insurance industry, which knows it could be wiped out if we ever got another Tunguska event of 1908. If something similarly destructive happened in the skies above New […]
