From frozen assets to fire sales: The datasets to prevent your investments going up in smoke

It never ceases to amaze me how, over the course of history, humankind has been willing to accept painfully difficult living conditions in return for a strategic position. Back in the days when ships and navies ruled the world, safe harbors were key.

Take, for example, how European settlers battled over a swampy, stinky, fly-ridden strip of land cut off by wide rivers on either side from its surroundings called Manhattan. Or Seattle, where city architects practically TNT’d the largest hills (and