But, then the dot com bubble burst and they were forced to make money.
Perhaps we will look back on 17 June 2011 as the day that social bubble burst.
Many analysts are confident that the new boom won't explode like the 90s bubble burst.
What was clear to most researchers before the housing bubble burst is now ambiguous at least.
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As the dot.com bubble burst, Citigroup was having trouble with its image and stock valuations.
Telecom spending plunged when the bubble burst but is showing signs of a rebound.
But when the housing bubble burst last year, the booming Texas economy began to falter.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group trades at a fraction it traded separately before the bubble burst!
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Since the housing bubble burst, millions of construction workers have had to look for a job.
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The market has failed newspapers since the dot-com bubble burst and ad revenue vanished.
So what happened was that before the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, VCs did amazingly well.
But remember what happened afterward: The market plunged 45% as the tech bubble burst.
Last December, I predicted that 2011 would the year that the commodities bubble burst.
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Worse, the commodities bubble burst: metals prices fell by over half between March and November 2008.
Anglo suffered the largest corporate loss in the history of the country when the bubble burst.
But, just then, the Internet stock market bubble burst and so did his fortune.
Then the dotcom bubble burst and Doubleclick sold its ad network business to Max Worldwide.
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Fannie Mae supports the US mortgage market, which collapsed in 2008 after the housing bubble burst.
Forbes' own Gilder Technology Report has performed terribly since the tech stock bubble burst.
Banks have raised their credit standards since the housing bubble burst and are demanding larger down payments.
This is the second horrendous bear market we've had since 2000, when the tech-telecom stock bubble burst.
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Spain has struggled since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008 when its property bubble burst.
But that strategy led to overcapacity in the 1990s when the bubble burst, plunging Japan into recession.
The Florida housing market was one of the worst hit when the property bubble burst in 2008.
But when the bubble burst in 2008, the Fed had to step in to prop up the banks.
The same is true for investors who bet against financials in 2008, as the real estate bubble burst.
In late '99 it went through in early 2000 and then, as you may recall, the bubble burst.
Will the government bail out the losers as it did when the mortgage-backed securities bubble burst in 2008?
If he replaced the Fed with the gold standard, what would he do if the gold bubble burst?
Britain's deficit proved to be unsustainable, causing the economy to suffer a hard landing once the bubble burst.
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