When Spacs attack
Unhedged22 Touko 2025

When Spacs attack

Special purpose acquisition companies are basically bags of money looking for businesses to acquire. They boomed in 2021 and then went into hiding. Now they’re back and booming. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Aiden Reiter survey the frontiers of Spacs. Also they go short the dollar and long jewels.


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Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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