Hello and welcome to the Davos Man episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here

with Emily Peck, also of Axios. Hello, hello. I've been loving your newsletter. You are now

actually putting out a newsletter every morning and it's amazing. What's the name of the newsletter?

Axios Markets, please subscribe. It's me and co-writer Matt Phillips, who is delightful and

sometimes Neil Irwin writes for us. It's like, it's really good and it's free.

So Matt Phillips and Neil Irwin are, they used to work for a terrible place called The New York

Times, so now they work for this wonderful place called Axios. The New York Times is basically, it has one reporter left at this point.

Mr. Peter Goodman, welcome.

Thank you very much for having me.

I'm delighted to be the last person with the lights on at the sad New York Times.

So, Peter, introduce yourself.

Who are you?

And what brings you onto this show?

I'm the global economics correspondent. I'm based in New York, and I've written a book called

Davos Man, How the Billionaires Devoured the World. So if you live in the world, you should

listen to this issue. You will discover how you have been devoured.

Actually, even if you live in other worlds, because, you know, Bezos is going to space now.

Exactly.

We are all like Jonah.

We have been, we are in the belly of the billionaire.

I mean, we don't even realize it.

We are going to talk about Larry Fink, who's one of the classic Davos men and his business model over at Black Rock.

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