catastrophe

One appealing feature of many of these bonds at the moment is that as interest rates rise they can pay higher yields on investors’ cash held as collateral against catastrophe risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

There may be some happy investors in the market for insurance-linked securities, however, if Isaias isn’t large enough to trigger catastrophe bond losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Those are scenarios of varying levels of catastrophe, and that’s kind of how I’ve been seeing speculative fiction lately.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

"But the money was meant to avoid a civilian catastrophe - that is the only reason."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Its business was credit cards, not home loans, but it dealt with the same socioeconomic class of people whose home loan borrowing would end in catastrophe just a few years later.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

“They say that it’s impossible to live a happy life when all you see is burnt houses and catastrophes, especially when you walk through the streets with your kids.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

He also called for "speedy incident reporting, classification, and reporting protocols so the world can learn from failures before they become catastrophes".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Will his crew see this grandiose conspiracy through, despite their shifty partners and some last-minute catastrophes?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

That didn’t stop catastrophes like the 2018 fire in the Sierra foothills that destroyed the town of Paradise and killed 85.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Here again we find evidence of past catastrophes.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan