You can throw in the huge accounting scandals around that time too...

...Enron, Arthur Anderson, Tyco, Worldcom, etc. For a while it seemed as if the booming economy of the 90s was a complete fiction... nothing more than accounting tricks and .coms that would never amount to anything.

In response to this post by MrBayAreaHokie

Posted: 07/08/2021 at 08:39AM

Not political.Is it human nature to have a massive crisis every 10 yrs? -- MrBayAreaHokie 07/07/2021 12:03PM

Probably less than 10 years. You could throw 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina in -- AbsolutVT03 07/07/2021 5:51PM

Can't believe i forgot about 9/11 -- MrBayAreaHokie 07/07/2021 6:18PM

Sunspots -- TomTurkey 07/07/2021 1:35PM

I thought it was El Niño ** -- Brown Water 07/07/2021 2:04PM

Their related by marriage ** -- TomTurkey 07/07/2021 3:52PM

Earth's haywire magnetic field ** -- Stork 07/07/2021 2:15PM

I did read a theory that there is a cycle of unrest... -- Kudelski 07/07/2021 1:28PM

My teen daughters have some kind of crisis every day. I’ll take 10 yrs. ** -- Spud 07/07/2021 1:06PM

So true! ** -- FfxStationHokie 07/07/2021 1:23PM

Missed a big one- 9/11/01 ** -- Hungry Joe 07/07/2021 12:31PM

Yep, that was the two banger -- MrBayAreaHokie 07/07/2021 4:59PM

You can throw in the huge accounting scandals around that time too... -- Hungry Joe 07/08/2021 08:39AM

Yeah, so the b2b side of Silicon Valley was really this -- MrBayAreaHokie 07/08/2021 09:21AM

Nope, it's human nature to see patterns in totally unrelated things -- SteveInBaltimore 07/07/2021 12:16PM

Perhaps you meant "seemingly unrelated things"? ** -- LaneRat 07/07/2021 1:05PM

"That's what they'd like us to think!" ** -- TomTurkey 07/07/2021 3:55PM

I think you have to separate financial and other stuff. -- ElbertoHokie 07/07/2021 12:16PM

And regardless of what caused it, it had nothing to do -- SteveInBaltimore 07/07/2021 12:18PM

2030 Hooker and blow shortage? ** -- FfxStationHokie 07/07/2021 12:04PM

2029 must be really fun. Can't wait! ** -- Kudelski 07/07/2021 1:25PM

Say it ain't so!! ** -- turkeywinghokie 07/07/2021 12:17PM

You can throw in the huge accounting scandals around that time too...

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