{"id":99873,"date":"2025-10-23T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/99873\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:15:13","slug":"the-disaster-industrial-complex-is-driving-us-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/99873\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disaster Industrial Complex Is Driving US Economic Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Some stories have mundane beginnings, while others strike like lightning. Only occasionally is it both.  In today\u2019s newsletter, we share the story behind our new feature on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2025-disaster-industrial-complex-us-economy\/?srnd=phx-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">disaster industrial complex<\/a>, and how it\u2019s playing out in western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Plus, a nonprofit has resurrected the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-22\/wildfires-and-severe-weather-drive-record-us-disaster-losses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">billion-dollar disaster database<\/a> the Trump administration killed. The findings show that the first half of the year was the costliest such period on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some stories have mundane beginnings, while others strike like lightning. Only occasionally is it both. In today\u2019s newsletter,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[61994,24796,72,2885,18478,113,426,18447,61,60,47115,858,61995,8273,4229],"class_list":["post-99873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-andrew-john-stevenson","tag-beer","tag-business","tag-climate-change","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-green","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","tag-north-carolina","tag-riverside","tag-tennessee","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}