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Hello! Welcome to the Dinosaur edition of Sleep Money, your guide to the business and finance news of a very depressing week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion.

I'm joined by Anna Schimansky and Jordan Weissman.

Hello, guys.

Hello.

Hello.

And this week was the week that the United States officially pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement,

which makes it one of those weeks a bit like the one after Brexit or the one after the election in the US,

where I'm just feeling horribly depressed.

We are going to talk about that, obviously. We are also

going to talk about credit in America. Did you know that your credit score is going up?

It is. Well, I mean, statistically speaking, it's anyway. It's possible. It turns out that Americans

have never been so credit worthy as they are now, or at least not in a very long time.

And so we'll talk a little bit about that.

And we are going to talk because Anna is here and also just because it's an amazing story about the tangled tale of Goldman Sachs, bailing out the Venezuelan government by buying hundreds of

millions of dollars worth of distressed paper. This is an awesome story. You're going to want to

hang around for that. But I think we can't but start with Paris.

Yes.

Which is,

which is,

you know,

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