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Welcome to the You guys Pick edition of Slate Money,

your guide to the Business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Saman of Fusion as ever joined by Anna Schmansky and Jordan Weisman.

Hello people.

Hey everyone. It's a fun show. Jordan We have a

have a fun show this week. We have a sleep last segment about Karelian 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 know,

CEOs trying to make the world a better place thing.

And that means we need to talk about Larry Fink.

Yep. Yep.

Yep.

Jordan, who is Larry Fink?

And why should anyone pay attention to him?

Larry Fink is the Grand Puba of Black Rock, which is just like the world's biggest fund manager.

It's the world's biggest fund manager.

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