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2016 Postmortem

tonyt53

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1. Pretty much sums it up. The dot.com boom was a machine acting on its own.

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Mon May 23, 2016, 11:05 AM

May 2016

It built itself on wild speculation and hung itself with the same wild speculation. But there is no doubt about it, average working people did much better under Bill than they had in a very long time.

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Pretty much sums it up. The dot.com boom was a machine acting on its own. tonyt53 May 2016 #1

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