A run for cover: LA’s fires and insurance
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The Economist
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Among the lessons emerging from California’s devastating fires is the idea that insurers cannot price risk on past data: the climate-change future is already here. Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defence secretary, has some misguided notions about women on the battlefield (10:10). And examining children’s literature: should it be all sugar and spice—or more real-world, where not everything’s nice (19:28)?
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| 1:41.2 | Donald Trump's pick for Defense Secretary Pete Hegsseth has some strong opinions when it comes to women in the military. |
| 1:49.0 | Our correspondent argues that in many ways, he is, in a word, wrong. |
| 1:55.7 | And we take a look at children's literature and the merits and demerits of sugar-coding stories |
| 2:01.7 | through the centuries. After all, the classic ending and they lived happily ever after, |
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