<story><title>This Tech Bubble Is Bursting</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-tech-bubble-is-bursting-1462161662</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I lived through 2001. This is not a bubble. As exhibit one I point out that everyone has been calling bubble since 2012. Real bubbles have more rah rah and less skepticism and more crazy.&lt;p&gt;I do see a slowdown but this is nothing like dot.com. Seems like a normal correction and is not really separate from the rest of the economy being uncertain. Nothing tech specific.&lt;p&gt;Bubble is an overused term. An inflated market is not a bubble, and a correction is not a bubble bursting. Markets go up and down all the time.</text></item><item><author>tarr11</author><text>If journalists keep writing articles about tech bubbles every few months, someone is bound to be correct.  Looks like this &amp;quot;trend&amp;quot; started up again in 2013.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore#q=tech%20bubble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore#q=tech%20bubble&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roymurdock</author><text>It is not a bubble in that market caps are not &amp;quot;popping&amp;quot; - disappearing instantly, overnight, leaving shares worthless and dissolving fortunes. The current tech market is more like a punctured soccer ball, slowly leaking air. Regular people won&amp;#x27;t see this as a crash in their etrade portfolios; rather, they will notice a long, slow decline in the value of their pension&amp;#x2F;retirement funds.</text></comment>
<story><title>This Tech Bubble Is Bursting</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-tech-bubble-is-bursting-1462161662</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I lived through 2001. This is not a bubble. As exhibit one I point out that everyone has been calling bubble since 2012. Real bubbles have more rah rah and less skepticism and more crazy.&lt;p&gt;I do see a slowdown but this is nothing like dot.com. Seems like a normal correction and is not really separate from the rest of the economy being uncertain. Nothing tech specific.&lt;p&gt;Bubble is an overused term. An inflated market is not a bubble, and a correction is not a bubble bursting. Markets go up and down all the time.</text></item><item><author>tarr11</author><text>If journalists keep writing articles about tech bubbles every few months, someone is bound to be correct.  Looks like this &amp;quot;trend&amp;quot; started up again in 2013.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore#q=tech%20bubble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore#q=tech%20bubble&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cleaver</author><text>Same here. I&amp;#x27;d have friends in the investment industry ask me about some new IPO or another. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x27;t tell you what these guys do.&amp;quot; Still, they&amp;#x27;d pour money into them.&lt;p&gt;Even worse was pouring money into things like Nortel &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; the crash was well under way. People just chased it to the bottom.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I thought I&amp;#x27;d add that even in a bloodbath like 2001, not everything tanked. The (tiny) company I was with continued to grow in revenue. We weren&amp;#x27;t doing anything glamourous, just focusing on business value. No IPOs, although some folks were trying to push us that way in the late 90&amp;#x27;s.</text></comment>