Hello!

Welcome to the Blah Blah Blah's Matter edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and finance news of the week, which was the week of

Davos. I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I'm joined by Emily Beck of the Huffington Post.

Hello. And also by Anna Jemanski. Hello. And yeah, we're going to have fun today.

We're going to have a contentious discussion about billionaires, whether they're good or whether they're bad. We're going to have fun today. We're going to have a contentious discussion about billionaires, whether they're good or whether they're bad.

We're going to talk about France and its colonial currency ways.

We're going to talk about Microsoft and its paternalist attempts to construct affordable housing in Seattle. We're going to talk about Alexandria Ocasio

Cortez. We're going to talk about Emmanuel Sayez. We're going to talk about Elizabeth Warren.

We're going to talk about wealth taxes. We're going to talk about why are there two different

CFA francs, which are worth exactly the same

amount of money? If you do know that, please let us know on slate money at slate.com because

none of us have been able to work that one out. It's going to be a riproarer of an episode.

So stay tuned for all of this on Slate Money.

I am very happy this week because I am not in Davos right now.

I get to hang out in a warm studio in Brooklyn and not have to schlep all the way to Switzerland.

And so for the first time in a long time, we are doing a Davos episode without anyone in Davos, which makes it great

for us to take a step back and say the most important person in Davos is Alexandria Ocasio

Cortez, who isn't even there.

I'm kind of into this. Like, you're, she's having more impact on Davos than just about anyone.

The person I should say who is having the most impact on Davos is probably that evil

Bolsonaro guy from Brazil.

And so it's another good reason to not be there is you don't need to wind up inadvertently

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