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Sean Casten: “This dwarfs the financial crisis, and presumably a lot of those homes will be subject to 30-year mortgages.”

On the recordDecember 4, 2019
This dwarfs the financial crisis, and presumably a lot of those homes will be subject to 30-year mortgages.
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Sean Casten
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Casten compares predicted climate impacts to the financial crisis, stressing systemic risk.

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