Tag: Dot-com Bubble

How-to • September 26, 2026

The Worst Market Timer Ever Still Retired a Millionaire

Imagine spending your entire investing life making almost perfectly terrible decisions. You buy stocks just before the 1973–74 bear market. You return immediately before Black Monday in 1987. Then you pile in at the peak of the dot-com bubble and, for your grand finale, invest just before the global financial crisis. That is essentially the […]

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Finance • September 5, 2026

The Dot-Com Bubble: Who Died, Who Won, and Could It Happen Again?

The dot-com bubble is usually remembered as a story about stupidity. Investors throwing money at companies with no profits. Startups adding “.com” to their names. Twenty-somethings becoming paper millionaires. Pets.com spending heavily to sell pet food online. Venture capital chasing almost anything connected to the internet. Then, in 2000, gravity returned. But that version of […]

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Finance • August 10, 2026

The Matrix Was Right: Markets Now Trade Stories, Not Reality

You open the earnings report. Revenue is climbing. Profits are beating forecasts. The chief executive sounds confident. The machines are humming, customers are buying and the company has just delivered one of the strongest quarters in its history. Then the stock falls. Not by a fraction. Not because the business has suddenly caught fire. It […]

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