During the dot com bubble, prices signaled huge demand in the Internet sector.

And suddenly we had Netscape, and we had Yahoo and we had, indeed, the entire dotcom bubble.

They were slashed again in 2001 and kept ultra low after the dot com bust.

Unfortunately, sometimes prices fail to perform this signaling function properly, as the dot com and housing bubbles in recent years showed.

Indeed, the intermittent over valuation of entire economic sectors recall the dot com bubble from a decade ago indicates that financial markets are often excessively focused on the long term.

When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count.

Bernanke had also supported the low interest rate policy implemented after the dot com collapse, which, in the view of many economists, was maintained for too long, fueling the boom and contributing to the bust.

Our employee turnover dropped to one third of the industry average, and during that five year dotcom bust, we tripled in size.

In the US, there was a jobless recovery under President Bill Clinton until the dot.com boom in the latter part of the 1990 s, and there was a jobless recovery under George W. Bush in the wake of the 2001 slowdown.

BRUSSELS The first decade of this century started with the so called dot com bubble. When it burst, central banks moved aggressively to ease monetary policy in order to prevent a prolonged period of Japanese style slow growth.

The dot com bubble of the late 1990s was a misestimate of the timing, not the magnitude, of the digital revolution. Likewise, Manyika and Baily argue that the much discussed Internet of Things is probably some years away from showing up in aggregate productivity data.

We come into the era of the dotcom, the World Wide Web, and I don't need to tell you about that because we all went through that bubble together.

In the wake of the dotcom crash and 9 11, San Francisco Bay Area hotels went through the largest percentage revenue drop in the history of American hotels.

Entering the jungle?

Finally, and also five years too late, the US Treasury secretary should announce that while the strong dollar doctrine was appropriate (and in America s interest) during the dot com boom, the country needs a weak dollar in the aftermath of the austerity bomb s detonation.

Fatwas.com

Lullaby in the Toba language

You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.

Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

Djibouti Corporal Darojo Daher via Africacom CC BY 20

In the US, for example, new securities laws were passed following the stock market crash of 1929, and the Sarbanes Oxley Act was adopted in 2002, in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Internet bubble and the Enron and WorldCom scandals.

For Seldo.com, it comes down to a simple issue of technological savvy

The crisis was caused by the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history.

And to do that it needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

America s Education Bubble

Israel s Election in a Bubble

The Gold Bubble and the Gold Bugs

Alegcom blog talked about the condition of Magta lihjar city after the floods

Frei Otto was starting to use foam bubble diagrams and foam bubble models to generate his Mannheim Concert Hall.

So we live on the most fragile, little soap bubble you can imagine, a very sacred soap bubble, but one that is very, very easy to affect.

Farrad02 writes in the Iranian.com blog

A photo of water flooding the 'Road of Hope' in Aleg published by Alegcom blog.

Unlearned Lessons from the Housing Bubble

They had no compunction about calling a bubble a bubble, or in intervening to deflate it.

Maybe the word bubble is used too carelessly.

By exploiting a record credit bubble to borrow against an unprecedented property bubble, American consumers spent well beyond their means for many years.

So in a sense, the Chinese bubble as much an intellectual and political bubble as an economic one has burst.

JohnEdwards.com So we keep on insulting people left and right everyday.

Another Singaporean blogger, mrbrown.com, wonders why the Secret Service agents were unable to catch the shoes

The rest of the country has not been spared according to analysis on Afrik.com

For several years, I argued that America s economy was being supported by a housing bubble that had replaced the stock market bubble of the 1990 s.

So there are striking similarities, I think, to the Internet boom, right?

The Internet bubble was unusual in this regard.

Greenspan stoked two bubbles the Internet bubble of 1998 2001 and the subsequent housing bubble that is now bursting.

Meanwhile, Alegcom blog cites an official source, attributing the causes of the deaths to Meningitis