The History of Dot Com Bubble
Hope: a new technology and cheaper money.
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1.What are the four steps of the dot-com story in the video?
Hope: a new technology and cheaper money. Hype: easy funding. Hole: the fall. Homework: the lessons.
2.What question did the head of the US central bank ask in December 1996?
It was a question, not a prediction (Greenspan speech).
3.What was the slogan of the hype stage?
For some firms it was a plan, for many a hope; venture capital was easy to raise.
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Sources (5)
- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Board: The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society (Rede, 5. December 1996)
- Wikipedia: Dot-com bubble (Sekundaerquelle, abgerufen 30.10.2026)
- Nasdaq-Composite-Rekord
- Eigene Rechnung: Rueckgang um 78 Prozent
- FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis): NASDAQCOM, Nasdaq Composite Index, taegliche Werte (Textdatei)
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