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Hurricane Milton tests the revamped plumbing of the insurance market
The Wall Street Journal

Hurricane Milton tests the revamped plumbing of the insurance market

A study co-authored by professors at the Wharton School estimates that the recent “reinsurance shock” added $375 to premiums for homeowners’ policies in the top 10% of ZIP codes by disaster risk.

What kind of president would Kamala Harris be?
Time

What kind of president would Kamala Harris be?

Modeling by the Wharton School predicts that Donald Trump’s campaign proposals would increase the deficit five times as much as Kamala Harris’s would.

First Fed rate cuts in four years
A stock trader is seen monitoring a screen showing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's announcement of a half-percentage point interest rate cut

Wharton’s Peter Conti-Brown, a financial historian focused on central banking and policy, discusses the Fed’s recent, and likely last, key decision before the presidential election.

(Image: AP Photo/Richard Drew)

First Fed rate cuts in four years

Wharton’s Peter Conti-Brown, a financial historian focused on central banking and policy, discusses the Fed’s recent, and likely last, key decision before the presidential election.