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The ocean is coming for homes — not priced in

  The rise in sea levels is on track to increase highly destructive flooding fivefold in the US by 2050, but a new study of home prices in coastal Florida suggests buyers are oblivious or indifferent to the risk. Governments need to take action to ensure that everyone has the right information about this critical threat. Freddie Mac researchers led ...

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It’d be folly for China to bust Russia sanctions?

  There are many ways a Chinese company might sidestep US sanctions and provide technology products to Russia. It could hide American imports behind third-party suppliers, implement layers of shell companies to obfuscate source and destination, or create elaborate schemes to hide data from forensic accountants. They’d be foolish for trying, and Beijing itself would likely step in to stop ...

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NTSB is helping China decipher black box clues to 737 jet crash

Bloomberg The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has been helping Chinese officials download two black-box recorders that were damaged in the mysterious crash of a Boeing Co 737 jetliner on March 21. The work to decipher the final sounds caught by cockpit microphones on the doomed jetliner is being carried out in the NTSB’s lab in Washington, spokesman Peter ...

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