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Insurance Industry Is Throwing Its Customers Under The Bus

Insurance Industry Is Throwing Its Customers Under The Bus
8 min read

For years,  I have been writing that the insurance industry will strongly influence the climate change debate, because its mission it to identify risks and price its policies accordingly. You can’t build a new 80 story tower stuffed with luxury condominiums on the edge of an ocean if you can’t … [continued]

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Bus Electrification Turns Governance Into Infrastructure

Bus Electrification Turns Governance Into Infrastructure
5 min read

Britain’s bus reforms are usually discussed as a privatization story. Outside London, the 1980s reforms deregulated local bus markets and gave commercial operators far more freedom over routes and timetables. London kept public control of the passenger network while private companies competed to operate specified services. Edinburgh, Dublin and more … [continued]

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Glasgow’s Buses Reveal Britain’s Transit Experiment

Glasgow’s Buses Reveal Britain’s Transit Experiment
5 min read

Walk around Glasgow as I did this summer and the bus companies are hard to miss. First Glasgow, McGill’s, Stagecoach and other operators have their own brands and vehicles, which can make the city look as though its public transport system has been divided among private companies. Being a bit … [continued]

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