A History Of Market Crashes, Pt 3: The Dot-Com Bubble

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🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Nerd is the new black (or really, green) in part 3 of our series on market crashes. Hundreds of dotcoms enter the Thunderdome that is the Information Age, only a handful survive. Morgan Housel from the Collaborative Fund joins us.

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0:39.7	Always a pleasure to be with you again, Allison.
0:43.8	Today is part three of our four-part series on the history of market crashes.
0:46.6	Thanks to the help of collaborative funds, Morgan Housel.
0:52.1	This week, we're visiting the excitingly nerd-tastic days of the dot-com bubble.
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