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@adamconover.net I just watched a presentation and panel discussion with Susan Erikson, author of *Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance – A Cautionary Tale*.
PLEASE consider inviting her to be a guest on Factually!
PLEASE consider inviting her to be a guest on Factually!
World Bank pandemic bonds only paid out after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital.
Susan Erikson explores the murky, ever-growing world of betting on catastrophe:
Susan Erikson explores the murky, ever-growing world of betting on catastrophe:
The Business of Betting on Catastrophe
World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
@adamconover.net I just watched a presentation and panel discussion with Susan Erikson, author of *Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance – A Cautionary Tale*.
PLEASE consider inviting her to be a guest on Factually!
PLEASE consider inviting her to be a guest on Factually!
Good grief, his profound arrogance and displacement of what truly matters for humans to thrive and live lives of meaning and care!
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Good grief, his profound arrogance and displacement of what truly matters for humans to thrive and live lives of meaning and care!
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"What happens when capital-market enthusiasm collides with real world economic priorities?"
The Risky Science Podcast does a deep dive on the volatility of risk finance and global health crises with FHS professor @slerikson.bsky.social, author of Investible!
pod.link/1825669405/e...
#SFU #SFUFHS
The Risky Science Podcast does a deep dive on the volatility of risk finance and global health crises with FHS professor @slerikson.bsky.social, author of Investible!
pod.link/1825669405/e...
#SFU #SFUFHS
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"What happens when capital-market enthusiasm collides with real world economic priorities?"
The Risky Science Podcast does a deep dive on the volatility of risk finance and global health crises with FHS professor @slerikson.bsky.social, author of Investible!
pod.link/1825669405/e...
#SFU #SFUFHS
The Risky Science Podcast does a deep dive on the volatility of risk finance and global health crises with FHS professor @slerikson.bsky.social, author of Investible!
pod.link/1825669405/e...
#SFU #SFUFHS
Can innovative finance really can save global health?
Risky Science pod host, Chris Westfall, gave me the opportunity to argue otherwise! Listen to the podcast!
www.riskmarketnews.com/models-prior...
Risky Science pod host, Chris Westfall, gave me the opportunity to argue otherwise! Listen to the podcast!
www.riskmarketnews.com/models-prior...
Models, Priorities and Pandemic Finance
Also, investors double down on private credit scrutiny and a new law looks to crack catastrophe model data.
www.riskmarketnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Can innovative finance really can save global health?
Risky Science pod host, Chris Westfall, gave me the opportunity to argue otherwise! Listen to the podcast!
www.riskmarketnews.com/models-prior...
Risky Science pod host, Chris Westfall, gave me the opportunity to argue otherwise! Listen to the podcast!
www.riskmarketnews.com/models-prior...
We must not give up on publicly funding health and wellness at home and the world. Do not relinquish care to only profit-making and ROI schemes! My latest: www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/f...
Beware the financialization of the global health industry
Beware of financialization when it is code for “money making money on health,” S.L. Erikson warns.
www.statnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We must not give up on publicly funding health and wellness at home and the world. Do not relinquish care to only profit-making and ROI schemes! My latest: www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/f...
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World Bank pandemic bonds only paid out after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital.
Susan Erikson explores the murky, ever-growing world of betting on catastrophe:
Susan Erikson explores the murky, ever-growing world of betting on catastrophe:
The Business of Betting on Catastrophe
World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
June 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
World Bank pandemic bonds only paid out after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital.
Susan Erikson explores the murky, ever-growing world of betting on catastrophe:
Susan Erikson explores the murky, ever-growing world of betting on catastrophe:
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Framed as humanitarian innovation, insurance-linked securities allow investors to bet on everything from hurricanes to pandemics. Our essay of the week unpacks how speculative finance turns catastrophe into a tradable asset.
By Susan Erikson in @mitpress.bsky.social
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By Susan Erikson in @mitpress.bsky.social
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July 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Framed as humanitarian innovation, insurance-linked securities allow investors to bet on everything from hurricanes to pandemics. Our essay of the week unpacks how speculative finance turns catastrophe into a tradable asset.
By Susan Erikson in @mitpress.bsky.social
buff.ly/EXs3DZK
By Susan Erikson in @mitpress.bsky.social
buff.ly/EXs3DZK
Jacobin has a fiery issue on SPECULATION, which includes a review of my book, Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance
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Life-saving drugs going to waste in Sierra Leone because the US stopped distribution for treatment. Just. Stopped.
Cruel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
Cruel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Life-saving drugs going to waste in Sierra Leone because the US stopped distribution for treatment. Just. Stopped.
Cruel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
Cruel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
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My friend @slerikson.bsky.social amazing book, a multi-sited ethnography of so-called pandemic bonds --from international investor meetings to Sierra Leonean health centers -- is finally out!
"Investable!" is a critical and sobering look at how international bankers and investors turn pandemics into investment opportunities and what we stand to lose when we rely on "innovative finance": mitpress.mit.edu/978026254935...
May 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
My friend @slerikson.bsky.social amazing book, a multi-sited ethnography of so-called pandemic bonds --from international investor meetings to Sierra Leonean health centers -- is finally out!
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"Investable!" is a critical and sobering look at how international bankers and investors turn pandemics into investment opportunities and what we stand to lose when we rely on "innovative finance": mitpress.mit.edu/978026254935...
May 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Investable!" is a critical and sobering look at how international bankers and investors turn pandemics into investment opportunities and what we stand to lose when we rely on "innovative finance": mitpress.mit.edu/978026254935...
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Trump’s nominee to run the DFC, wants to redirect USAID’s budget to Wall Street. What will this mean for global health?
In the most recent blog post, first published by the McLeod Group, Susan Erikson (@slerikson.bsky.social) reflects on the financialization of aid.
www.sum.uio.no/english/rese...
In the most recent blog post, first published by the McLeod Group, Susan Erikson (@slerikson.bsky.social) reflects on the financialization of aid.
www.sum.uio.no/english/rese...
March 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Trump’s nominee to run the DFC, wants to redirect USAID’s budget to Wall Street. What will this mean for global health?
In the most recent blog post, first published by the McLeod Group, Susan Erikson (@slerikson.bsky.social) reflects on the financialization of aid.
www.sum.uio.no/english/rese...
In the most recent blog post, first published by the McLeod Group, Susan Erikson (@slerikson.bsky.social) reflects on the financialization of aid.
www.sum.uio.no/english/rese...
DOGE has so much to learn about government! on.ft.com/3R8b3ai
Doge’s ‘villain’ fantasy is wrong about public service
Most choose to do it because the job matters
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March 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
DOGE has so much to learn about government! on.ft.com/3R8b3ai
Wall Street likely to benefit from USAID shuttering. More about it in my McLeod piece www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/03/shif...
Shifting Aid Money to Wall Street: The Financialization of Aid is Underway - The McLeod Group
McLeod Group guest blog by S.L. Erikson, March 12, 2025 Aid can’t be run like a private equity or hedge fund. And yet, Benjamin Black, Donald Trump’s nominee to run the US International Development Fi...
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March 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Wall Street likely to benefit from USAID shuttering. More about it in my McLeod piece www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/03/shif...
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Can't wait for this amazing work by my friend Susan Erikson to be out in the world! mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262...
Investable!: When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance--A Cautionary Tale
A critical and sobering look at how international bankers and investors turn pandemics into investment opportunities, and what we stand to lose when we rely on “innovative finance.”In a world increasi...
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January 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Can't wait for this amazing work by my friend Susan Erikson to be out in the world! mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262...