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The Cyclicality of Malthusianism, and Related Investment Implications

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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Is There a Crisis to Prevent?

Incentive structures matter too. I mean, like the National Flood Insurance Program is a great example of that, right? There are literally millions of dwellings, individual homes and condos and whatnot built along the coasts of it. It's actually profitable for the companies here to have power go out in storms because FEMA pays them more money than it costs to fix it. And they not only never fix their address the problem, you exacerbate it by encouraging that sort of behavior. You can always tie everything back to that if you try hard enough. But we've seen whole parts of economies fall apart where the population just shrinks. That generally doesn't go well for their citizens or their countries.

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