Michael Barbaro has an intriguing story in the New York Times today on the finances of Jeb Bush (spoiler alert: they’re not pretty), but even more intriguing to me is the following:
As a paid adviser to [failing Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers] in the summer of 2008, he met with Carlos Slim Helú, a Mexican billionaire, as Lehman sought to persuade Mr. Slim to make a sizable investment in the firm, emails show.
News flash for Michael Barbaro: Carlos is not your run-of-the-mill billionaire. He’s a Bill Gates-class big guy and, even more to the point, he and his family own 10 million shares of New York Times stock, with options to buy 16 million more. He isn’t quite your boss, but I bet if you met him you’d call him “Señor”.
