Tag Archives: Dot-com bubble
NASDAQ is Back at 2000 Dot-Com Bubble Level
On Monday the NASDAQ closed above 5,000 points (Nasdaq Composite closed at 5,008.10). It has been almost to the day 15 years that the NASDAQ was over 5,000. Back then we have been at the end of the...
Amazon Posted Its First Profit In Months, but Stocks Fall
Amazon posted results yesterday for its all important holiday quarter. One of the surprising things about this quarter is that Amazon posted a nice profit of $239 million, after several quarters of...
Of Tulips, Twitter And Other Bubble Phenomena
One of the first historically recorded speculative bubbles happened with tulip bulbs in the Netherlands in the 1630s, when intense speculation caused an investor mania for the flower. ...
Bubbles, Banks And Bitcoin
We are used to money being created by the state. Or rather, we are used to money being created by banks on behalf of the state. The state has no direct control over the quantity of money created by...
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Facebook IPO is on May 17
The highly anticipated mega tech IPO is possibly just a month away. TechCrunch reports that multiple sources say that Facebook targets May 17 for IPO. The valuation of Facebook is expected to hit $...