The aftermath of the California wildfires will be important for the entire country: 1. Private insurance companies have dropped fire protection from many homeowner’s policies or made the rates so high as to be unreasonable for most. They will fight tooth and nail to not pay. How do we fix the insurance market going... See more

Residential real estate is the bedrock of the U.S. economy: Almost two-thirds of American adults own their homes, totalling a worth of nearly $50 trillion. That's also "an awful lot to lose," writes @abrahmlustgarten in reflecting on the massive damage that disasters have wreaked over the past year, from the Los Angeles firestorms to Hurricanes... See more