With Hurricane Helene at the top of the list, there were 27 disasters in the United States in 2024 that individually cost $1 billion or more. It was the second-highest number since the NOAA record began in 1980.| NOAA Climate.gov
With 28 events, 2023 easily surpassed 2020 as the year with the most billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. The preliminary price tag is at least $92.9 billion.| NOAA Climate.gov
Perilous times on planet Earth| geoffreydeihl.substack.com
When will the oil era end? Nobody knows.| geoffreydeihl.substack.com
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Gross domestic product is the monetary value of all finished goods and services made within a country during a specific period.| Investopedia
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.| ProPublica