by Daniel BrouseJuly 21, 2025 Mortgage delinquencies are climbing across the United States, with southern states like Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina facing the steepest increases. A major driver? Escrow payments — which cover property taxes and insurance premiums — have surged by 62% nationally over the last five years, a spike fueled largely by […]
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Climate-Fueled Insurance and Tax Hikes Are Driving Mortgage Delinquencies
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Also tagged climate change, flood insurance, insurance, real estate
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The Cascading Crisis: Climate Change, Pathogens, and the Future of Human Health
By Daniel BrouseJuly 20, 2025 Disease vectors are among the most critical—and often underestimated—risk factors of climate change. Together with deadly humid heat and increasingly violent rain events, these three threats drive an exponential rise in climate-related deaths. Disease vectors, such as mosquitoes and ticks, expand their range and transmission seasons as the climate warms, […]
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The Big Beautiful Bill Shell Game: Funding Deportation While Killing Growth
by Daniel Brouse July 20, 2025 The Big and Brutally Ugly Bill has now become law, revealing itself as a massive shell game that diverts public funds toward unrelated and destructive policy goals while weakening the core engine of American economic growth. Tariffs imposed under the false banner of an “economic emergency” are being funneled […]
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Climate Change, Capitalism, and the Collapse of Insurance: California as a Case Study
by Daniel BrouseJuly 19, 2025 California offers a stark preview of what to expect as the U.S. property insurance market begins to unravel under the weight of climate change. Insurers continue to withdraw from wildfire-prone and flood-prone areas, despite recent policy efforts aimed at stabilizing the market. The January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires alone generated […]
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Trump’s Trade War Shows His Economic Ignorance—and Americans Will Pay the Price
Trump’s global trade war continues to reveal his profound lack of understanding of business, economics, and the realities of global trade. His repeated claims that trade deficits are a threat to the United States not only demonstrate economic illiteracy but actively harm the nation’s prosperity, standard of living, and even life expectancy. Trade Deficits: A […]
Three Economic Shocks Hitting You This Month: Health, Nutrition, and Education Under Attack
by Daniel Brouse July 19, 2025 Starting this month, three interconnected economic impacts will begin hitting households and communities across the country—especially in rural areas—threatening health, nutrition, and education in ways that will ripple through local economies. 1. Health: Rising Insurance Costs and Rural Hospital ClosuresKey parts of the Affordable Care Act are expiring, with […]
Walk the Poop Before You Talk the Transition
By Daniel Brouse July 18, 2025 Now that many people are finally waking up to the collapse of the climate and social systems, I hope my background as an economist focused on risk management can help illuminate the path forward. Ideally, we would have followed sound risk management decades ago to avoid reaching this crisis […]
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Fiscal Policy in the Chaos: How America’s Current Path Accelerates Economic Collapse
by Daniel BrouseJuly 17, 2025 I’ve been getting a lot of great questions about two nonlinear, dynamic systems: climate collapse and economic collapse. Just as the climate system consists of interconnected subsystems, so too does the world economy. This chapter examines how current U.S. fiscal policy is a critical driver within this chaotic system, accelerating […]
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Tipping Points, Feedback Loops, and the Accelerating Collapse of Earth’s Climate Systems
By Daniel Brouse and Sidd MukherjeeJuly 16, 2025 Introduction Research and development incorporating complex social-ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, non-linear system is profoundly challenging. A small window into this complexity can be seen in the interactions among the Albedo Feedback Loop, Brown Carbon Feedback Loop, Freshwater–AMOC Disruption Loop, Permafrost–Methane Feedback Loop, Amazon Rainforest Dieback […]
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Rethinking Collapse: Cascading Feedbacks
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee July 16, 2025 Introduction The Interaction of: Albedo Feedback Loop, Brown Carbon Feedback Loop, Freshwater–AMOC Disruption Loop, Permafrost–Methane Feedback Loop, Amazon Rainforest Dieback Feedback Loop, Sudden Sea Level Rise Pulses (“Cork Release” Events), Hydroclimate Whiplash, and Arctic Sea Ice Feedback Combined Consequences These interlinked, reinforcing feedbacks can: * Drive […]
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