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Hello! Welcome to the You Guys Pick edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Sam and a Fusion, as ever, joined by Anna Shamansky and Jordan Weissman.

Hello, people.

Hey, everyone.

It's a fun show this week.

We have a Slate Plus segment about Carillion, which is an English company, which did some weird things and kind of wound up belly up.

We have one of the weirdest charitable donations that we have seen in a while, which is the Gates

Foundation, a large charitable organization, giving tens of millions of dollars to that very

worthy recipient, the Japanese government. We're going to work out what on earth is going on

there. And weirdly, I kind of love it.

I think it's awesome.

There is the super pick bonds.

That's nothing to do with gum health.

That's another piece of amazing financial engineering, which we will get into because when you reach super pick bonds, you know that the markets are frothy hello

Dow 26,000 but let's start since we're almost in Davos now we have to do the we have to start

talking about the grand corporate responsibility you, CEOs trying to make the world a better place

thing. And that means we need to talk about Larry Fink. Yep. Yep. Um, Jordan, who is Larry Fink?

And why should anyone pay attention to him? Larry Fink is the grand poohba of Black Rock, which is just like the world's, it's the world's

biggest fund manager.

It's the world's biggest fund.

It has $6.2 trillion.

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