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With stocks reaching unprecedented highs during the Internet Bubble, analysts often had to convince investors that all the money they had poured in was “worth it”.
 
 
The result was a variety of “new metrics” that would be used to value stocks.
 
 
The thinking was that the New Economy stocks were a breed apart and the same standards that [...]

In Yesterday’s post we dealt with Bubbles and the ‘greater fool’ paradigm that almost always tends to operate in the case of financial bubbles. We also dealt briefly with Financial Pornography. It’s again important for us to note that most Bubbles come about primarily in situations when there is:
a)     Some new Technology
b)    Some new (unexplored, unexamined business [...]

When I was a young boy I remember being fascinated by Johny Quest and the virtual World he always managed to slip himself into. I cant forget those days when I used to come back from school, grab my cup of milk and sit glued to cartoon network (they don’t do it like they used [...]

“Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars” – that’s what Leo Baekeland, the inventor of photographic paper and early ‘light’ plastic called Bakelite said once he had patented Bakelite. Imagine if he hadn’t [...]