What if wildfire-ignition liability bankrupts or downgrades a major Western US utility?
Wildfire-ignition liability bankrupts or downgrades a major Western US utility (echoing PG&E 2019), a physical-risk-to-credit channel rating agencies and the Fed treat as material.
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The butterfly cascade
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What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Wildfire-ignition liability bankrupts or downgrades a major Western US utility (echoing PG&E 2019), a physical-risk-to-credit channel rating agencies and the Fed treat as material. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Credit spreads ▲ · Financial conditions ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.