What Popped the Dot-Com Bubble?

Wall Street has infamously had its share of ugly Octobers, so Alison Southwick and Robert Brokamp chose this month to offer their listeners a special treat: a four-part series on the history of market crashes in the United States.

In this Motley Fool Answers podcast, guest and former Fool Morgan Housel leads the discussion on a topic near and dear to the hearts of online-based operations like the Fool: the dot-com bubble and the subsequent long and painful crash. Whenever trouble strikes, everyone wants to know why. But even after a couple of decades to reflect on that, the answers may not satisfy.

A full transcript follows the video.

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