SPACs... The Next Big Thing Or The Next Mania?
Stansberry Investor Hour
Stansberry Research
4.3 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Dan brings Enrique Abeyta, editor at Empire Financial Research, onto the show to discuss the hottest new trend sweeping across the financial world.
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies... better known as SPACs.
What are SPACs? How are they different than a regular IPO? And why have they taken off in popularity recently? Is this just the next mania?
Dan fires these questions and more at Enrique, and he explains how, with the right guidance, SPACs provide incredible opportunities for regular folks to invest in companies they otherwise would never have access to.
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| 0:00.0 | Broadcasting from the Investor Hour Studios and all around the world, you're listening to the Stansberry Investor Hour. |
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| 0:23.6 | Here's your host, Dan Ferris. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello and welcome to the Stansberry Investor Hour. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm your host, Dan Ferris. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm also the editor of Extreme Value published by Stansberry Research. |
| 0:34.6 | Today we'll talk with Enrique Abeta. Man, I love Enrique. He was on Wall Street for more |
| 0:40.5 | than 20 years, raised $2 billion in assets. He's got great stories. He's starting a brand new |
| 0:45.9 | research product, totally focused on special purpose acquisition companies. Spacks. Yeah, |
| 0:52.2 | we'll talk about SPACs and other stuff Enrique is into these days. Can't |
| 0:55.9 | wait. This week in the mailbag, lots of comments about forest fires and climate change. That's |
| 1:01.8 | always fun. Plus questions about closed end funds and options trading. In my opening rant this |
| 1:08.7 | week, I'll just take a look at what's happening in the world and talk about |
| 1:12.1 | what's good, what's a little crazy, and what's downright troubling. |
| 1:14.7 | That and more right now on the Stansberry Investor Hour. |
| 1:21.1 | A couple weeks ago, I talked about the passing of my mom, and I talked about how this upheaval in your life can be a catalyst |
| 1:31.6 | for positive change, and that it's kind of my job to do that. |
| 1:36.9 | And I'll tell you something, my work routine, since that event has been screwed. |
| 1:43.2 | I've just been, I just can't go back to whatever I was doing. |
| 1:46.7 | It's just, I don't know, even though I feel like, you know, I'm dealing with my grief okay, |
| 1:52.2 | and it's just everything's different. And I think that's going to be reflected in the show |
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