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Tim Bray
Tim Bray
@timbray@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.

That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse

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The Trump administration will soon make it the official policy of the US government that greenhouse gases don’t endanger Americans’ well-being and therefore don’t need federal regulation, Mark Gongloff writes in Bloomberg Opinion. Insurance companies, meanwhile, live in a parallel universe where greenhouse gases are heating the atmosphere and intensifying natural disasters, harming human health, destroying property and raising insurance costs. The government’s universe is an increasingly lonely fantasy world, Gongloff writes, but Americans are trapped in the real one. And it’s about to get more expensive.
The Trump administration will soon make it the official policy of the US government that greenhouse gases don’t endanger Americans’ well-being and therefore don’t need federal regulation, Mark Gongloff writes in Bloomberg Opinion. Insurance companies, meanwhile, live in a parallel universe where greenhouse gases are heating the atmosphere and intensifying natural disasters, harming human health, destroying property and raising insurance costs. The government’s universe is an increasingly lonely fantasy world, Gongloff writes, but Americans are trapped in the real one. And it’s about to get more expensive.
The Trump administration will soon make it the official policy of the US government that greenhouse gases don’t endanger Americans’ well-being and therefore don’t need federal regulation, Mark Gongloff writes in Bloomberg Opinion. Insurance companies, meanwhile, live in a parallel universe where greenhouse gases are heating the atmosphere and intensifying natural disasters, harming human health, destroying property and raising insurance costs. The government’s universe is an increasingly lonely fantasy world, Gongloff writes, but Americans are trapped in the real one. And it’s about to get more expensive.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
GhostOnTheHalfShell
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@timbray

About to get more expensive? I mean what the actual fuck, natural disasters have been getting way more expensive, especially over the last decade.

That’s the reason why the insurance industry is acting the way it is

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Dalibor Topić
Dalibor Topić
@Robilad@det.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@timbray Yeah, Bloomberg has been a rare positive surprise over the past years.

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