Apply Week 1 The dot com bubble and crash .docx ECO/535 The Dot-com Bubble and Crash Un

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Apply Week 1 The dot com bubble and crash .docx ECO/535 The Dot-com Bubble and Crash University of Phoenix ECO/535 The dot-com bubble from 1994 to 2000 The dot-com bubble from 1994 to 2000 was wh... en the technology companies were the new, fun and exciting investment to make. With the internet starting to become more of a necessity to people and businesses, more and more people started investing in these new web- based companies in hopes that it would make them very wealthy in the long run. Little did they know how bad of a reaction this would cause in the end. While there were a lot of companies that were not very lucky and did not take off, you have websites like Amazon, eBay, and Google who still have a name for themselves in the technology community today (Gray, 2021). When it comes to the supply of companies to invest in, they were plentiful, but as we will come to find out what was more important was finding one that was going to take off and not fold. In this case there was a lot of demand to invest in technology companies as it was new and exciting, as a result it truly put the economic equilibrium out of whack. Because of the amount of supply, the prices were lower to make their shares more marketable. As a result, people were buying stock in technology companies like crazy. With these factors in mind, it was the transition into the crash because the number of available shares were doubling almost monthly. Another action that led to the eventual crash was the number of new IPOs (initial public offerings) that we. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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