crisis

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The lawsuit is the latest instance of fire safety watchdogs teaming up with local residential groups to stop unrestrained development in hazardous areas as the state pushes to address its housing crisis.

From Los Angeles Times

“It would be easy, and accurate, to call 2025 the low point of human action on the climate crisis.”

From Salon

Burry became famous for predicting the housing market crash that delivered the great financial crisis in 2008, and was featured in Michael Lewis’s book The Big Short.

From MarketWatch

Entrenched consumer caution fuelled by a years-long debt crisis in the property sector has weighed on China's growth outlook, spurring calls for leaders to step up support measures.

From Barron's

The outgoing United Nations refugee chief fears an increasingly fragmented world is fuelling global conflicts and crises, and inflaming hostility towards people desperately fleeing for safety.

From Barron's