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Grappling With Slow-Moving Risks

Colliding fiscal and demographic trends could lead to more economic instability and social unrest over the next decade.

When the public and many risk managers think of risk, they tend to focus on fast-moving threats—such as financial market crashes, pandemics, and political upheaval.

But there are slow-moving risks as well: threats that develop over time before suddenly emerging as catastrophes—when it is too late to act. Most environmental risks are slow-moving. So are many risks posed by new technology.

Grappling With Slow-Moving Risks


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