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View this email in your browser • Links 11/6/2022 • Centene Showers Politicians With Millions as It Courts Contracts and Settles Overbilling Allegations • Links 11/5/2022 • A Brief History of the Mortgage, From Its Roots in Ancient Rome to the English 'Dead Pledge' and its Rebirth in America • Russian Oil Price Cap Will Not Apply To Resold Cargoes • 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/4/2022 • Could the Ukraine Conflict Be an Opportunity for the Global South? • Links 11/4/2022 • One Year In, The First Ever Large-Economy CBDC, Nigeria's eNaira, Is a Gigantic Flop Links 11/6/2022 06 Nov 2022 06:55 AM EST Centene Showers Politicians With Millions as It Courts Contracts and Settles Overbilling Allegations 06 Nov 2022 06:25 AM EST Centene earns billions of dollars from governments and then uses its profits to back the campaigns of the officials who oversee those government contracts. Links 11/5/2022 05 Nov 2022 06:59 AM EDT A Brief History of the Mortgage, From Its Roots in Ancient Rome to the English 'Dead Pledge' and its Rebirth in America 05 Nov 2022 06:57 AM EDT The backstory of what is now arguably the most widely-used form of lending in principal terms, the mortgage. Russian Oil Price Cap Will Not Apply To Resold Cargoes 05 Nov 2022 06:41 AM EDT The "collective West" is remarkably attached to sanctions that have hurt them more than Russia. The oil price cap is next in this pattern. 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/4/2022 04 Nov 2022 02:00 PM EDT ~ Today's Water Cooler ~ Could the Ukraine Conflict Be an Opportunity for the Global South? 04 Nov 2022 09:55 AM EDT Many countries see the Russia challenge to Western economic dominance as an opportunity to rewrite the rules of global trade in their favor. Links 11/4/2022 04 Nov 2022 06:58 AM EDT One Year In, The First Ever Large-Economy CBDC, Nigeria's eNaira, Is a Gigantic Flop 04 Nov 2022 06:45 AM EDT The Central Bank of Nigeria is undeterred. To deepen its drive to "entrench a cashless economy" and boost take-up of the eNaira, it is launching a demonetization process not too dissimilar from India's. 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.