I am delighted to participate in the ESG Global Leaders Summit. This important conversation could not be more timely. This July was the hottest month ever recorded. A billion or more sea creatures were cooked to death off the coast of Canada as heat records were shattered. Smoke from raging wildfires in the Western United States has continued to drift across the continent.
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The impact of the pandemic on risk choices is particularly important when it comes to the future of work –both the immediate issue of workplace safety as people start returning to their offices and longer-term changes in the kinds of jobs people are going to do.
we need to talk about the way that current U.S. tax policies treat risks by subsidizing dangerous risk-taking while failing to invest in heading off others.
The next chapter of the Texas deep freeze/blackout saga has begun, with bankruptcies, obscene energy bills, and lawsuits. This was…
Editor’s note: Howard Gerwin, a classmate from Rice University back in the day, sent me this note on Thursday, February…
The deep freeze that has held Texas in its grip this week brought back memories –definitely not “warm” ones—of the…
At the risk of gross understatement: What a year 2020 has been. Yet there is hope for 2021. The argument for systemic change is as strong as it has been in recent years. And 2020 could have been even worse.
My paternal great-grandfather, Josef Franz Bílek, died on November 13, 1918, in the second wave of the Great Flu Pandemic.…
“Two new books about the historical roots of debt could hardly be more timely,” I wrote for The Washington Post Bookworld in…
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a double challenge: First, an increased sense of urgency to deal with the ravages of…