Category Archives: Risk and risk management

Why Give a Damn About Pelosi? How About the Nuclear Strike We Would Have Made on China Over Formosa?

In 1958, the US considered a nuclear strike against China if China’s planned conquest of Formosa went well.

Now It’s Official: Financial Times Profiles Venture Capital Crash

A venture capital washout is underway. Pass the popcorn.

The Future of Global Catastrophic Risk Events from Climate Change

U.N.: Climate change is causing extreme events that can kill > 10 million or lead to > $10 trillion in damages, threatening societal collapse

IM Doc Could Not Get A Monkeypox Test for a Patient. What That Says About the Sorry State of the CDC and Public Health

The US Is flying blind on monkeypox, and the CDC and public health officials are unwilling to break a sweat to correct that.

Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection

Visibly filmsy “isolation” gowns, OK’d by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.

Fast and Furious Omicron New Variants Defy Explanation, and Don’t Bode Well for Future Either

More cheery Omicron takes.

Can the Fed Kill This Inflation Without Killing Too Many Other Things First?

Why having central banks as the inflation shock troops is not such a hot idea.

As U.S. LNG Expands in Europe, a Hidden Threat Grows

Researchers and experts are warning about the danger of naturally occurring radiation in LNG to workers and communities in the US and Europe

CalPERS Staff in Fury Over Covid Negligence, Regulation-Breaking Risking Staff, Seniors, and Day-Care Children; CalPERS Lies About Cases and Lack of Compliance

CalPERS has risen from being a risk to merely to the financial health of beneficiaries and taxpayers to being a bona fide health hazard.

How the Options Tail Has Come to Wag the Market Dog: A Simple English Language Explanation of How Structural Changes in the Stock Markets Contribute to Whipsaw Movements in Prices

Why the use of options may be the risk bomb that blows a big hole in our financial system.

How Better Ventilation Can Help ‘Covid-Proof’ Your Home

Some easy home ventilation tips that could help relatives and colleagues.

Brief Comments on the TerraUSD and Tether Stablecoin Breakdowns

Why the two big stablecoin breakdowns of last week, TerraUSD and Tether, look like frauds.

Climate Collapse & Adaptation

Is it possible to adapt to the inevitable like climate collapse? We do it all the time, and everyone living will do it at least once.

Financial Times Screeches at China’s “Propaganda” for Sticking to Zero Covid Policy

A new article on how China is sticking to its zero Covid guns is revealing, and not in a good way.

Climate Science and Financial Risk: Forging a Path to More Climate-Resilient Businesses

Is the search for better valuations of climate risks to help businesses reducing global emissions an exercise in self-delusion?