Alabama building code article, Airlines
Feb. 1st, 2019 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitouthttps://www.al.com/hurricane/2019/02/alabama-leads-nation-in-building-stronger-hurricane-resilient-homes.html
Long article, lots of detail. Many things stood out, like, the amount of money added on that was described as “intimidating” seemed microscopic in the context of housing markets I have lived in. ($15K. It is to laugh.) But I loved that in a context with _no_ statewide building code, an insurance discount driven system was having a real impact.
On a completely unrelated topic:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-31/goldman-has-an-unhappy-loan-customer
Buried in this Matt Levine piece is an observation about Berkshire Hathaway owning 9% percent of United, Delta and American. So, anyone sitting around waiting for the domestics to get into a lovely grab-market-share-by-increasing-capacity-and-reducing-fares moment for airlines will have to wait until Warren Buffet and/or Charlie Mungo is no longer around to remind the airlines why that’s a bad idea. *sigh* I mean, it _is_ a bad idea. But still.
Long article, lots of detail. Many things stood out, like, the amount of money added on that was described as “intimidating” seemed microscopic in the context of housing markets I have lived in. ($15K. It is to laugh.) But I loved that in a context with _no_ statewide building code, an insurance discount driven system was having a real impact.
On a completely unrelated topic:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-31/goldman-has-an-unhappy-loan-customer
Buried in this Matt Levine piece is an observation about Berkshire Hathaway owning 9% percent of United, Delta and American. So, anyone sitting around waiting for the domestics to get into a lovely grab-market-share-by-increasing-capacity-and-reducing-fares moment for airlines will have to wait until Warren Buffet and/or Charlie Mungo is no longer around to remind the airlines why that’s a bad idea. *sigh* I mean, it _is_ a bad idea. But still.