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Fishkind Conversations: The Champlain Tower collapse and the economics of a human tragedy

Hank Fishkind. Photo: Matthew Peddie, WMFE
Hank Fishkind. Photo: Matthew Peddie, WMFE

The collapse of the Champlain Tower South condominium is a terrible human tragedy.

Economic analyst Dr. Hank Fishkind says that looking at the disaster through his economic lens reveals significant problems of lax regulation and failed financial decision-making that pitted the owners against the condo’s Board of Directors.

Fishkind shares his observations with WMFE’s Nicole Darden Creston.

Nicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined Central Florida Public Media in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy.