The Game of the UAW Strikes

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🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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If you want to know the reasons behind someone’s actions, it’s important to find out the incentives. (00:21) Jason Moser and Deidre Woollard discuss: - If a SPARC is the new SPAC. - Being cautious about IPOs. - The impossibility of creating a super app. (13:50) Ricky Mulvey interviews Marc Robinson, the principal consultant at MSR Strategy and an expert in game theory to understand the rules of the game in this United Autoworkers strike. Claim your Stock Advisor discount here: www.fool.com/mfmdiscount Companies discussed: F, GM, STLA, PYPL Host: Deidre Woollard Guests: Jason Moser, Ricky Mulvey, Marc Robinson Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's driving the United Auto Worker Strikes?
0:07.8	Motley Full Money starts now.
0:11.7	Welcome to Motley Full Money.
0:22.4	I'm Deidre Bullard here with Motley Full Analyst Jason Moser.
0:25.2	How are you today, Jason?
0:26.2	Hey, Deidre doing great.
0:27.2	How about you?
0:28.2	I'm doing great.
0:29.2	I learned a new acronym over the weekend, which is a Spark, not a SPAC.
0:34.3	It's a special acquisitions rights company.
0:36.8	So Bill Ackman, he's a famous billionaire investor.
0:40.2	He got SEC approval on Friday for the Pershing Square Spark.
0:44.5	This is interesting because last year, he shut down what was going to be the biggest
0:48.4	back ever, the $4 billion Pershing Square Tantine Holdings.
0:52.3	Now those shareholders will get shares in this new company.
0:55.7	What is a SPAC and why is it not a SPAC?
0:58.2	The simplest for you here to me, it seems like a Spark is more of a, it's a more logical
1:01.9	first step, perhaps in helping investors gauge interest and for interested investors
1:07.7	to be able to not have to take quite as much risk up front in considering new ideas.
1:14.4	If you look at a SPAC versus a SPAC, a special purpose acquisition company, ultimately they
1:20.9	gather this money through an initial public offering of a shell company with the promise
1:27.7	ultimately to acquire a successful public or private company, I'm sorry.
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