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Topic: private equity firms

Shop selling coffins and funeral wreaths (Getty Images/urbazon)

Business booms in the death industry

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

AOC rails against private equity firms

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
FILE - In this Aug. 8. 2011 file photo, a Wall Street sign hangs near the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. Stocks are opening slightly lower, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, on Wall Street following sideways moves in Europe and Asia. (AP Photo/Jin Lee, File) (AP)

Judith Lewis Mernit - Capital & Main