Are SPACs Making A Comeback?


“It depends”, as my attorneys like to say. Much has been said about SPACs – good and bad, especially during the pandemic when SPACs were at their peak – but like with almost any other financial endeavor, little has been said in the public sphere about their inner workings, which is crucial to understanding whether […]
In Brazil, disinformation deals Lula a bruising defeat


An avalanche of disinformation about a new economic measure proved so tricky for Brazil’s government to navigate that they backtracked entirely this week in a rout egged on by the opposition. The political fiasco centered around the beloved instant money transfer system known as PIX, used tens of millions of times a day by Brazilians […]
Instagram courts TikTok stars during turbulent times


Meta-owned Instagram has been wooing creators from TikTok as the China-based video-snippet sharing app’s future remains uncertain in the United States. After officially increasing the allowed length of videos and adding a new editing tool, Meta recently began letting TikTok creators earn as much as $5,000 over the course of three months for posting “Reels” […]