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Hurricane Harvey is bigger news than the bankers at Jackson Hole

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

In Houston last November I spent an evening at the city’s industrial-scale food bank, where I heard a presentation on the Houstonian tradition of offering hospitality to refugees, including 200,000 displaced from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. We were also given some positive spin on the strength of co-operation, in time of crisis, between the region’s major oil companies and its state and city governments.

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