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‘Hey, Hey, Money Maker’: Inside the $156 Billion SPAC Bubble

This Wall Street craze is stretching all the limits and involves flying taxis, bikini GIFs and a rapper with a taste for champagne.

Whenever greed meets reality and giddy markets collapse, Wall Street pros usually admit that they sensed the end was coming. The warning signs were so familiar, they belatedly confess, that it was difficult to believe anyone could miss them. The chain of fools was running out.

This can’t last. Today those sober words are being whispered again in American finance, this time about one of the biggest money-grabs in the business, SPACs.