Top Links 618 America's mounting insurance crisis. US record homelessness. Beijing's Himalayan mega dam & who killed Jazz?

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Georges Rouault, “Hindenburg”, 1930.

Numbers spinning out of control.

As private insurance pulls out of insuring homes in the most disaster-prone American states, public last resort backstops are absorbing the risks, so far to the tune of $ 1 trillion.