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Aug 2024
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92. Mars Deal & Google Monopoly

Kristen and Jen
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Today we chat about the WSJ article: "How Bank of America Ignores Its Own Rules Meant to Prevent Dangerous Workloads". 

https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/bank-of-america-worker-death-policies-89eff5f6

We get into the announced Mars acquisition of Kellanova, as well as who the heck Kellanova is, what a spin off is, why the deal was likely done all cash. And finally we chat about the lessons we can learn from the Microsoft monopoly ruling in the early 2000s as they apply to a judge finding that Google is a monopoly. 

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