The Indypendent » How to Wreck the Economy

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Sun, 10/12/2008 - 09:16

From 1982 to 2000, the U.S. stock market went on the longest bull run ever, as share prices rose to dizzying heights.

In the late 1990s, a combination of factors, which included the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates, created a huge price bubble in Internet stocks.

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