Divide the company and conquer
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4.6 • 8.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
General Electric broke its business into three separate public companies this year, putting a higher profile on corporate spinoff strategies. We’ll explain why spinoffs are hot right now. Hint: It has a lot to do with rewarding investors and managing debt burdens. Also in this episode: Congress may struggle to pass tax reforms despite a GOP majority next year, AI agents might be tech’s next big thing and why the Fed tracks the U.S. money supply.
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| 1:08.8 | Here on this program, we spend a lot of time on the major economic reports and data dumps. Think jobs numbers, inflation data, retail spending, but there are plenty of economic releases that don't get as much attention. One of those is the Federal Reserve's tally of the country's money supply. That is, |
| 1:29.1 | how much money is circulating in this economy. It's called the M2, and this afternoon, the Fed said that |
| 1:37.0 | number is sitting at $21.5 trillion. So, Marketplace's Justin Ho looked into why we keep tabs on the country's |
| 1:45.8 | money supply. The Federal Reserve has a few different tallies of how much money there is floating |
| 1:50.6 | around. The first is what it calls M1. George Perks, with the bespoke investment group, says you can |
| 1:56.4 | think of this as money that's really easy to spend. Checking accounts and cash held by the private sector, generally speaking. |
| 2:04.7 | Then there's M2, which takes M1 and adds in money that's not quite as easy to pull out and |
| 2:10.5 | spend, but not too hard either. |
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