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View this email in your browser • Links 10/3/22 • The Inevitable Financial Crisis • Death Is Anything but a Dying Business as Private Equity Cashes In • Addiction Instead of Taxation • Links 10/2/22 • Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only 'Marginally' and Most Are Pricey • Links 10/1/22 • Tech Billionaires Are Actually Dumber Than You Think • Financing Ukraine's Victory: Why and How Links 10/3/22 03 Oct 2022 06:55 AM EDT The Inevitable Financial Crisis 03 Oct 2022 06:50 AM EDT We're again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008. Death Is Anything but a Dying Business as Private Equity Cashes In 03 Oct 2022 06:50 AM EDT Private equity is buying up funeral homes, enticed by a large industry with reliable income that is still mainly populated by small businesses. Addiction Instead of Taxation 02 Oct 2022 08:55 AM EDT Increasing duties on tobacco is least effective amongst the least advantaged segments of the community at decreasing smoking. Over time, the effect of approaches such as this is to push an increasingly larger share of the burden for government revenue onto a smaller, and more disadvantaged and addicted section of the population. Links 10/2/22 02 Oct 2022 06:55 AM EDT Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only 'Marginally' and Most Are Pricey 02 Oct 2022 06:50 AM EDT The pharma-funded system at the FDA is becoming more prevalent and, because of the funding structure now in place, will not be easy to unpick. With such a large proportion of the drug regulation budget deriving directly from drug makers, and more input from drug makers at every stage in the process, the divide between the FDA and drug makers is rapidly shrinking. Links 10/1/22 01 Oct 2022 06:55 AM EDT Tech Billionaires Are Actually Dumber Than You Think 01 Oct 2022 06:53 AM EDT It turns out that many of today's billionaires are selfish, lonely men fantasizing about how they will survive the end times they have played a part in creating. Financing Ukraine's Victory: Why and How 01 Oct 2022 06:51 AM EDT $50 billion, backstopped by IMF. Copyright © 2022 Aurora Advisors Incorporated, All rights reserved. You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to Naked Capitalism's daily list of links. Our mailing address is: Aurora Advisors Incorporated 164 Peachtree Circle Mountain Brook, AL 35213 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.