FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for March 06, 2012
March 05, 2012
March 07, 2012
Transcript:
Andy: I see that another dot-com is about to go belly-up. Peter: Oh? What's the tip-off? A bad business plan? Lousy management? Pie-in-the-sky forecasts? Andy: Your father just bought their stock. Peter: Is this why you gave me all those scholarship applications?
Oh yes, the infamous dot-com crash of the early 2000s. Where the stock become worth less than the paper it was printed on. Still, it had nothing on the late 2000s recession; where it was not uncommon to see a stock drop 60 points in 10 minutes.