Our recent article, Swaps and Basis Trades Warn Of Mounting Liquidity Problems, touched on negative interest rate swap spreads as an omen of potential liquidity problems. To stay on the topic of liquidity, we didn’t provide much detail about swaps. Nor did we discuss their importance to the financial system. Accordingly, we ended the discussion…
Credit: Flinders University A growing threat of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens poses a critical public health threat—and drinking water plumbing systems serve as significant but overlooked reservoirs of these problematic microbes. Despite international efforts to combat AMR, surveillance has primarily focused on clinical cases, while environmental reservoirs—such as drinking water plumbing systems—remain poorly understood. A…
By Emily Doud IOLA – The Chet Krause Legacy Park will be seeing the restrooms outfitted with plumbing in the near future after receiving a grant for $50,000.The Vibrant Spaces grant was awarded in 2023 and was just released into the Chet Krause Legacy Park fund to assist in finishing the restroom project. The grant…
Sponsored by Hawkins Service Company In a region where the heat rarely takes a day off, Tampa Bay families have trusted Hawkins Service Company since 1993 to keep their homes safe, comfortable, and cool. What began as a small electrical company wiring homes for local builders has grown into one of the area’s most reliable…
Local News “We are totally whole from that. We made up the money that we did lose by not being open in donations, which is totally amazing.” The screen at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge on April 19, 2022. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) The Brattle Theatre closed for five days over the holiday weekend due…
MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — A Mesa woman is frustrated that a city of Mesa water project seriously damaged her property, and no one is stepping up to make things right. Yassna Javadpour is a single mom who has reached her limit. She’s dealing with a plumbing problem she says was caused by the city of…
A tiny invader, no larger than a paperclip, is poised to unleash a multimillion-dollar plumbing nightmare across California’s most exclusive waterfront communities. First discovered last fall in the Port of Stockton, the golden mussle – native to southeast Asia – has since infiltrated the San Joaquin Delta and O’Neill Forebay, threatening to cause irreparable harm…
The combination of heavy snowfall, rapid melt, and extended power outages created conditions for flooding inside many Simcoe County homes As Simcoe County residents continue to clean up debris outside of their homes from the recent ice storm, some are also dealing with issues inside their homes. Eric Choi, general manager of Harris Plumbing, told…
