History will be repeated... Dot.com bust of 2000 to be repeated!

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Leave it up to another f...kup Democrat to screw up the economy but this time WORSE then in 2000!

And guess who will get the blame in 2017??? The GOP president.
Just as GWB did in 2001 when a recession that started in 2000 under another Democrat we'll see again
the Democrat f....up messing up the economy even worse then GWB and I predict another worse
event will occur AND yet NONE of you idiot Obamatrons will recognize history repeating itself!

When the dot-com bubble burst in early 2000, the fallout for publicly traded stocks was quick and severe. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 37% in the 10 weeks following its peak on March 10, 2000.

For startups, the immediate impact was less dramatic. In the second quarter of 2000, venture capitalists invested $25 billion in startups, down only 5% from the first-quarter peak.

“There was a lot of suspended disbelief between March and June,” says Keith Rabois, then a vice president at PayPal Inc. and now a partner at Khosla Ventures.

Mr. Rabois and others think we’re now in a similar period of suspension of disbelief. Startup investment has cooled. Valuations are falling. But Mr. Rabois says many investors and entrepreneurs haven’t yet grasped the new reality. “If that suspended disbelief ends, all hell breaks loose,” he says.

The parallels between the two eras aren’t perfect. After a seven-month decline, the Nasdaq index has gained 12% since early February.

This Tech Bubble Is Bursting

FOR you idiots that don't remember HERE again is the events that occurred in 2000 leading up to
GWB taking office with the worst of events in history occurring in his administration!

Recession??
Are you aware that a recession started under Clinton and became official 3/01 ended 11/01?
Because idiots don't seem to comprehend... RECESSIONS are like large ships.. it takes miles to turn one...i.e. so does a "RECESSION"...
it doesn't just start the day NBER states... it is a slow degradation and it started under CLINTON!!!
Source: USATODAY.com - It's official: 2001 recession only lasted eight months

A Major $8 trillion market loss
Are you aware that the dot.com bust occurred and cost $8 trillion in losses?
Again Clinton laid claim BUT someone had to pay and it occurred during Bush's first year!
$8 trillion in market losses MEAN lost tax revenue.
PLUS JOBS!!!!
According to the Los Angeles Times, when the dot-com bubble burst, it wiped out $8 trillion dollars in market value for tech companies.
More than half of the Internet companies created since 1995 were gone by 2004 -
and hundreds of thousands of skilled technology workers were out of jobs.
Source: The dot-com bubble: How to lose $5 trillion

The worst attacks on the USA in History.. 3,000 deaths!!!
Obviously most of you are UNAWARE 9/11 cost 3,000 lives, $2 trillion in lost businesses,market values assets.
Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100 JUST in New York.
Are you aware this happened???
Now before you idiots say "well Bush should have known"! DUMMIES... ever hear of the Gorelick Memo signed under CLINTON??
Gorelick Memo that created the wall between FBI & CIA thus no knowledge of the 9/11 bombers shared with the FBI!!! Looks especially imprudent 10 years later.
Because the memo created a barrier for U.S. intelligence agencies to share information with the FBI, one of its unintended consequences may have been to prevent the FBI from receiving the necessary intelligence to stop the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the worst in American history.
Gorelick Memo Allegedly Impeded Probe of Clinton Fundraising Scandal
1995 memo [Clinton presidency-concerned about Chinese election sales] Gorelick wrote, stated explicitly that they would “go beyond what is legally required, [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.” GORELICK Memo!
Jamie Gorelick’s wall barred anti-terror investigators from accessing the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker, already in custody on an immigration violation shortly before 9/11.
At the time, an enraged FBI investigator wrote a prophetic memo to headquarters about the wall.
Whatever has happened to this — someday someone will die — and wall or not — the public will not understand why we were not more effective in throwing every resource we had at certain problems…..
especially since the biggest threat to us UBL [Usama bin Laden], is getting the most protection.
So, a year before the 9/11 attacks, a special unit in the U.S. military was aware of the presence of an al-Queda cell in Brooklyn, New York, and sought to share its information with the FBI but was stopped cold.Why?Because (as described in the April 16, 2004 Washington Times piece) “on March 4, 1995, [Jamie Gorelick, the then number 2 official in the Clinton Justice Department, sent a 4-page directive] to FBI Director Louis Freeh and Mary Jo White, the New York-based U.S. attorney investigating the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
In the memo, Ms. Gorelick ordered Mr. Freeh and Ms. White to follow information-sharing procedures
that ‘go beyond what is legally required,’ in order to avoid ‘any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance’
that the Justice Department was using Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants, instead of ordinary criminal investigative procedures, in an effort to undermine the civil liberties of terrorism suspects.”
Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented? The Gorelick Memo and What We Knew

Year 2001: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
The 9/11 terrorist attacks were the events that helped shape other financial events of the decade. After that terrible day in September 2001, our economic climate was never to be the same again. It was only the third time in history that the New York Stock Exchange was shut down for a period of time. In this case, it was closed from September 10 - 17. Besides the tragic human loss of that day, the economic loss cannot even be estimated. Some estimate that there was over $60 billion in insurance losses alone. Airlines didn't fly for 3 days!
Approximately 18,000 small businesses were either displaced or destroyed in Lower Manhattan after the Twin Towers fell. There was a buildup in homeland security on all levels. 9/11 caused a catastrophic financial loss for the U.S.
Source: 10 Events That Rocked the Financial World

Anthrax Attacks...
The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on Tuesday, September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two DemocraticU.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others.

$1 trillion in losses due to the WORST Hurricane SEASONS in history. 2,215 lives lost
The worst, Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 in 2005. It took 1,836 lives and caused $81.2 billion in damages. It quickly became the biggest natural disaster in U.S. history, almost destroying New Orleans due to severe flooding.
Rank Disaster Year Deaths Damage* $250 Billion in damages in the 8 disasters of the top 15 disasters in history!
1. Hurricane Katrina (LA/MS/AL/FL) 2005 1833 $133,800,000,000
6. Hurricane Ike (TX/LA/MS) 2008 112 $27,000,000,000
7. Hurricane Wilma (FL) 2005 35 $17,100,000,000
8. Hurricane Rita (TX/LA) 2005 119 $17,100,000,000
9. Hurricane Charley (FL) 2004 35 $16,500,000,000
12. Midwest Floods 2008 24 $15,000,000,000
13. Hurricane Ivan (FL/AL) 2004 57 $13,000,000,000
14. 30-State Drought 2002 0 $11,400,000,000
Costliest U.S. Weather Disasters | Weather Underground

THESE events OCCURRED!
YET in SPITE of:
a) 400,000 jobs lost due to Hurricanes Katrina/Rita ,
b) 2,800,000 jobs lost in alone due to 9/11,
c) 300,000 jobs lost due to dot.com busts... In spite of nearly $8 trillion in lost businesses, market values, destroyed property..
 
Are you aware that a recession started under Clinton and became official 3/01 ended 11/01?

*facepalm*

It would be funny, if it weren't so sad. No, the recession did not start while Clinton was in office.
Yeah but on the other hand it wasn't the *fault* of either Clinton or Bush, you want somebody to blame look no farther than the Fed pumping money into the system and driving speculation in equities to unsustainable prices, along with the Fed you can also blame all the speculators that got caught up in the irrational exuberance of "tech stock valuations don't matter, even when they're fucking insane"...... pump up the bubble enough and fear will eventually overcome greed *POP*.
 
Are you aware that a recession started under Clinton and became official 3/01 ended 11/01?

*facepalm*

It would be funny, if it weren't so sad. No, the recession did not start while Clinton was in office.

Econbrowser: The 2001 recession revisited:

In a recent post, Greg Mankiw cites Hamilton and Chauvet in support of his view that a good argument could be made that the recession of 2001
actually began in 2000.... As some readers may recall, the 2004 Economic Report of the President contained this box, which states:

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) uses a variety of economic data to determine the dates of business-cycle peaks and troughs.... [T]he four data series that the NBER used to determine the timing of the recession have been revised....
=== Real personal income less transfers... peaked in October 2000.
=== Nonfarm payroll employment... peaked in February 2001.
=== Industrial production['s] peak came even earlier, in June 2000.
=== Manufacturing and trade sales... the most recent data show a peak in June 2000....
=== [M]onthly GDP reached a high point in February 2001....
The median date of the peak for the five series discussed here is October 2000....
The 2001 recession revisited | Econbrowser

See most idiots think ah.... 2/28/2001 NO RECESSION Economy moving right along! Right??? That's what you think???
Then BANG 3/1/2001 NBER says RECESSION started. One day there was no recession. Next day RECESSION!
You think that don't you!
Pity you are so f...king ignorant about how the economy works!
 
Are you aware that a recession started under Clinton and became official 3/01 ended 11/01?

*facepalm*

It would be funny, if it weren't so sad. No, the recession did not start while Clinton was in office.
Yeah but on the other hand it wasn't the *fault* of either Clinton or Bush, you want somebody to blame look no farther than the Fed pumping money into the system and driving speculation in equities to unsustainable prices, along with the Fed you can also blame all the speculators that got caught up in the irrational exuberance of "tech stock valuations don't matter, even when they're fucking insane"...... pump up the bubble enough and fear will eventually overcome greed *POP*.

You're correct that neither President can be blamed for it. Not sure I agree about blaming the Federal Reserve. It was bound to happen, no matter what. It's perfectly normal and natural to have occasional recessions.
 
Are you aware that a recession started under Clinton and became official 3/01 ended 11/01?

*facepalm*

It would be funny, if it weren't so sad. No, the recession did not start while Clinton was in office.
Yeah but on the other hand it wasn't the *fault* of either Clinton or Bush, you want somebody to blame look no farther than the Fed pumping money into the system and driving speculation in equities to unsustainable prices, along with the Fed you can also blame all the speculators that got caught up in the irrational exuberance of "tech stock valuations don't matter, even when they're fucking insane"...... pump up the bubble enough and fear will eventually overcome greed *POP*.

You're correct that neither President can be blamed for it. Not sure I agree about blaming the Federal Reserve. It was bound to happen, no matter what. It's perfectly normal and natural to have occasional recessions.

Who else do you blame for pumping the enormous liquidity into the market that allowed the speculators to decouple equity valuations from the underlying business fundamentals? The market responds to external stimulus and cheap, plentiful money is a POWERFUL external stimulus that never fails to distort the price discovery mechanism.
 
Who else do you blame for pumping the enormous liquidity into the market that allowed the speculators to decouple equity valuations from the underlying business fundamentals? The market responds to external stimulus and cheap, plentiful money is a POWERFUL external stimulus that never fails to distort the price discovery mechanism.

The market responds to the latest trends in fart smell preferences. I'm always baffled by some people's irrational need to lay blame for everything and anything. I think it arises from some people's bias, wanting to believe that one can control far more than one really can.

The very notion of an open market is predicated on a surrender of control as a pragmatic best solution. An economy is composed of far too many factors for anyone to truly have control over it, and necessitates that individuals act in their own best interests with little to no bother for attempting to assume control, or responsibility, for the economy as a whole. I don't blame anyone for the 2001 recession. It's normal. It's healthy, even. Recessions are a natural check-balance. While it's great to look back and learn from past mistakes, to say that we need to saddle anyone with blame is nothing more than an emotional response lacking rational justification.
 

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