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Calling Out ‘Emperor’ Larry Fink
Charlie Munger says what many CEOs think but decline to say.
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By The Editorial Board
Feb. 17, 2022 6:58 pm ET
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When you’re 98 years old you can say things others can’t, so bravo to Charlie Munger for daring to speak an important but too muffled truth about today’s financial markets. “We have a new bunch of emperors, and they’re the people who vote the shares in the index funds,” Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway partner said Wednesday. “I think the world of Larry Fink, but I’m not sure I want him to be my emperor."
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