Climate “Stress Tests” May Be Coming To U.S. Banks
Here’s a piece from Reuters that suggests that U.S. banks may be required to undergo climate-related “stress tests,” to ensure that they have sufficient resilence in the case of disasters caused by climate change: floods, droughts, wildfires, etc. Fed Chair Jerome Powell (pictured) says he’s “open to the idea.”
Such practices are universal among European banks.
Here’s another good illustration of an important fact. Your Uncle Bob may be a climate denier. That’s his right. Recognize, however, that in the circle of people who are responsible for managing trillions of dollars, there is no such thing as climate denial. These people didn’t get where they are by imbibing right-wing political crap from Fox News and the like.
As one could expect, the people spreading malicious lies on Facebook are having a hell of a time with the fact that FB will not host their BS.
As we look down the barrel of the first, and almost definitely not the last, of the variants of COVID-19, we are dealing with the very significant percentage of the U.S. population that refuses to get vaccinated, a phenomenon that could make dealing with the pandemic impossible.
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“America First” and “Make America Great Again” are the two most prominent slogans of Trump and his supporters.
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Pennsylvania’s state senate is proposing a bill that would 
From The New Yorker: In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, Donald Trump’s vision of an August reinstatement reaches new level of surreality. (Larger version below)
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Rightfully, those billionaires choosing to build new businesses in recreational space travel rather than addressing the vast suffering here on Earth are taking a terrible public relations hit. Here’s a clever meme that speaks to that.
