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To: SeekAndFind

It’s nothing (yet) like the 2000 bubble. Back then, Howard Stern and his minions talked for hours on the air about which tech stocks to buy, companies simply made up non-economic metrics (”page visits”, e.g.) to justify an IPO or a stock price, and people were getting second mortgages just to buy tech stocks.

I don’t think we’ll be at the limit until we see a couple of those unmarked Google / Yahoo / Twitter luxury buses tipped over or torched.


3 posted on 05/09/2014 7:41:06 AM PDT by jiggyboy
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To: jiggyboy

This is a story about an example of an idiot company, not a bubble, believe me, I was at ground zero in the last bubble, what is going on now is nowhere near that. What mostly is going on is the fact a decade has been nearly lost between the last bubble bursting and the financial crisis, so you are seeing 10-15 years of undergrowth, start to come back hard.


4 posted on 05/09/2014 7:50:23 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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