Dot Com Bust

'Cheap Money Has Failed'

Bloomberg | Karl Heinz Daeke | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Cheap-Money, Business News, Housing Market Collapse, Dot-Com Bust, Banking Crisis, Low Interest Rates, European Financial Crisis, Karl Heinz Daeke, German Taxpayers Association, Business News

When will politicians finally accept that their ideology of cheap money has failed? A low-interest-rate policy after the dot-com frenzy encouraged ...

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Bianca Bosker

WATCH: Founder Of DoubleClick On The Most Overhyped Trend In Tech

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Dot-Com Bust, Kevin O'connor, Kevin Oconnor, Social Media, Tech Startups, Dot-Com Startups, Video, Find the Best, Doubleclick, Tech Bubble, Small Business America, Social Media Marketing, Technology News

Wondering whether we're in the midst of another tech bubble? Veteran entrepreneur Kevin O'Connor, who survived the dot-com collapse of the 1990s, ...

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The Economist Joins the Tech Bubble Herd

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Dot-Com Bust, The Economist, Dot-Com, Tech Bubble, Internet, New Tech Bubble, Dot-Com Bubble, Skype, New Dot-Com Bubble, Business News
Robert Teitelman

The closest thing to a bubble in tech these days may be the rush to declare it a bubble in the media. Even if it turns out to be the case, it would be more luck than prescience.

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Four Trends We WON'T Be Celebrating This Labor Day (CHART)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dot-Com Bust, Great Recesstion, Labor, Unemployment, Economic Policy Institute, Labor Day, Third World America, Wages, Compensation, Slidepollajax, Recession, Business News

Labor Day, of course, was intended to celebrate the American worker. But, for those of us lucky enough to be employed, the labor market still isn't pr...

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Shadow Elite: Wall Street Profiteers - Capitalists or Communists?

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dot-Com Bust, Robert Rubin, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Economic Crisis, Enron, Arianna's Book Club, Business News
Linda Keenan

American profiteers have done grievous damage to their own free market ideology, and, most importantly, to the economic well-being of the entire world.

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10 Years After The NASDAQ Peak, Here's What I Learned

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dot-Com Bust, Wall Street, Finance, Henry Blodget, Business Insider, Eliot Spitzer, Business News
Henry Blodget

In a former life, I was a famous Wall Street analyst. A chart of my career would look like the NASDAQ from 1995-2002. The parallel ended there, because Eliot Spitzer got me booted off Wall Street.

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Freelancer Exodus

Hava Volterra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dot-Com Bust, Freelance Writers, Unemployment, Freelancing, Freelance, Underemployment, Dotcom Boom, Recession, Screenwriting, Los Angeles News
Hava Volterra

LA is a city of strivers. And sometimes freelance work is more suitable for those types. The problem is that those gigs are among the first to be cut when companies are under pressure.

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Matt Taibbi On "Colbert Report": Wall Street Is 'One Ponzi Scheme After Another' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Dot-Com Bust, Stephen Colbert, Robert Rubin, Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Bailout, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Commodities Speculation, Colbert Report, Business News

Matt Taibbi took his crusade against Goldman Sachs to "The Colbert Report" last night, accusing the investment colossus of using its influence in gove...

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Too Big to Succeed

John Standerfer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Internet, The Great Depression, Fdic, Bankruptcy, Money, Economy, Bank of America, Websites, Venture Capital, Capitalism, Facebook, Taxpayers, Dotcom Crash, Superbowl Ads, Dot-Com Bust, Super Bowl Ads, Taxpayer Money, Youtube, Banks, Dotcom Boom, Dot-Com, Technology, Silicon Valley, Great Depression, Business News
John Standerfer

What we don't appear to understand yet is that no amount of money, time or regulation can possibly resolve this problem while a few banks continue to hold the entire nation hostage.

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Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again

New York Times | BRAD STONE, MATT RICHTEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dot-Com Bust, Yahoo, Facebook, Internet Companies, Silicon Valley, Business News

Silicon Valley's math is getting fuzzy again. Internet companies with funny names, little revenue and few customers are commanding high prices. And i...

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