After Hurricane Katrina the city of New Orleans was rebuilt at an enormous cost. On “The Weekend Intelligence”, the Economist’s Southern correspondent travels there to try to understand the human and economic consequences of that decision
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A lesson from the Katrina not much talked about - 'Don't live near the coast, especially in the south'. Soon any kind of home or flood insurance will be unaffordable, FEMA is basically gone, the states can't afford to take its place, and the world is becoming very uncaring of victims' predicaments.
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