101. Irrational Exuberance: The Rise of the Dot-Com Bubble (Part 1)

About this episode

The episode explores the rise and fall of the dot-com bubble in the 1990s and its parallels to the current AI boom.

We're back! And since everyone keeps comparing the AI boom to the dot-com era (and asking if we're in a similar bubble) we decided to kick off Season 3 by taking us all down another rabbit hole to see what really happened. In this episode, Jess and I take you back to the 1990s — when optimism was sky-high, money was cheap, music was great, and anything with “.com” in its name could send Wall Street into a frenzy. We unpack the perfect economic storm that built the dot-com bubble, the wild timeline of events that burst it, and the investor psychology that led even the smartest people to think "this time was different." Why Does This Matter To Me? As we said in Episode 100, sometimes history haunts us, but there are lessons to learn from the past. As we release this episode heading into "Eclipse Season," we're reminded that time is cyclical, spiraled, and layered. What can we learn as self-directed investors from the Dot-Com Bubble? We explain the details of this week's lesson and how it parallels the AI Boom of today in our Free Newsletter ! ;) Key Takeaways: The 1990s were the perfect setup for a bubble: Low inflation, low interest rates, and a booming economy…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jessica Inskip, Jessie DeNuit

Topics covered

• dot-com bubble
• investor psychology
• economic history
• AI boom comparison
• 1990s economy
• technology impact

Keywords

• dot-com bubble
• investor psychology
• 1990s
• AI boom
• economic history
• technology
• IPOs
• Wall Street

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wall Street, AI Boom

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