{"id":5465,"date":"2013-01-23T20:28:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T04:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2013-01-23T20:28:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T04:28:20","slug":"natural-disasters-counting-the-cost-of-calamities-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/natural-disasters-counting-the-cost-of-calamities-the-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural disasters: Counting the cost of calamities | The Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referenced in Antifragile pg. 470<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Such multi-billion-dollar natural disasters are becoming common. Five of the ten costliest, in terms of money rather than lives, were in the past four years see map. Munich Re, a reinsurer, reckons their economic costs were $378 billion last year, breaking the previous record of $262 billion in 2005 in constant 2011 dollars. Besides the Japanese and Thai calamities, New Zealand suffered an earthquake, Australia and China floods, and America a cocktail of hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and floods. Barack Obama issued a record 99 \u201cmajor disaster declarations\u201d in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21542755\">Natural disasters: Counting the cost of calamities | The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referenced in Antifragile pg. 470 Such multi-billion-dollar natural disasters are becoming common. Five of the ten costliest, in terms of money rather than lives, were in the past four years see map. Munich Re, a reinsurer, reckons their economic costs were $378 billion last year, breaking the previous record of $262 billion in 2005 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[658,343],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","tag-disasters","tag-the-economist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}