... amount of companies that went bankrupted had gone up from 176 in year 2000 to 251 in the year 2001. Most of the bankruptcy filings were done by telecom and dot-com firms because lots of them had such a high burn rate and low revenue that they just couldn't sustain themselves. The only thing that was going for them was the ... hype on the dot-coms. Once people realized that these companies were nothing except for some inflated stock prices, people began to lose confidence and pulled out their investments which had caused the inter ... ...

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... are the most likely reasons for a shift. In terms of quantity demanded, this refers to the desired amount of a product or service at a specific price. This is graphically illustrated by a dot on the demand curve. Unlike a change in demand, a change in quantity demanded is reflected by a movement along the curve. A change in quantity demanded corresponds with the law of demand, which ... ...

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... are the most likely reasons for a shift. In terms of quantity demanded, this refers to the desired amount of a product or service at a specific price. This is graphically illustrated by a dot on the demand curve. Unlike a change in demand, a change in quantity demanded is reflected by a movement along the curve. A change in quantity demanded corresponds with the law of demand, which ... ...

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... , he cites ''financialization,'' a preoccupation with success in ''finance, technology and services'' and the neglect of ''basic manufacturing,'' speculation and the recurrence of bubbles and manias (from Dutch tulips to America's dot-coms), the export of capital and jobs, the reliance on foreigners to fill domestic jobs, growing inequality of wealth and income and the ''exposure . . . to war.'' The trouble is that ... ...

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... data look good because of housing and the war at the same time there has been negative job growth. For example, we witnessed many highly skilled jobs lost with the dot com bubble burst. Some of which was a direct result of corporate maneuvering and greed. The long future of job growth and economic stability will require tough political decisions. For that ... ...

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... of the consumer market that E-Trade was targeting, such as day-traders and casual investors, the money available for investment has largely dried up. Consumers are also extremely wary of a dot-com company, such as E-Trade, that could vanish from the market and are willing to pay more to a true brokerage such as Schwab or Merrill. Considering this, the threat posed ... ...

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