... not felt a significant slump in the economy in the past ten years. There are many factors that have contributed to this recession - including September 11, 2001, the fall of many Dot Com startup companies and "Cooking the Books", which equates to billions of dollars lost in investments and jobs. But it appears that the straw that broke the camel's back was ... within the U.S. boundaries, as well as financially impacting the U.S. trading partners throughout the world. The events taking place in corporate America, such as the Enron scandal, the fall of the Dot Com companies, excessive cor...

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... of people in the early Twenties regarding radio. It might as well characterise the internet guru's outlooks until 2000. Even professional analysts went with the crowd and set ratings for dot.com shares unreasonably high. Some even claimed that the rules of business cycle were not valid any more - and they were wrong as we know today. Had investors considered 1929 ... and selling the same shares. Most people tend to be rather risk-averse, but there are investors that prefer risky financial instruments. Derivatives were traded in high volumes during the dot.com-hype. Even individuals who ...

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... world's largest companies. According to Barbara Ehrenreich, author of, Nickel and Dime, "Our Corporate CEO's have gone from rocking to reeking in a mere two years. At the height of the dot.com bubble, when they had won distinguished awards "that of ethic and credible "role models- and even "icons,"" many investors hastened to offer their life savings via the stock ... ...

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... by trading other commodities such as coal and steel. Early in the year 2000 Enron was peaking its economic success and began to invest into broadband Internet networks seeing the dot.com economy expand with profits. The company boasted $880billion in products bought and sold online within two years, although remanded silent whether or not the transactions were profitable. Around this ... ...

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... problem the pipeline hadn't been built yet. With the high tech boom Enron moved its gas and electricity online, hoping to cash in on the high stock prices of the dot-coms. Enron sold Wall Street and as a result the stock tripled in value from 1998 to 2000. This was not the only reason it tripled but a definite factor. Within this ... ...

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... ' boards. It is critical that companies instill more professionalism and transparency in the corporate governance structure. Investors will insist on that and reward companies accordingly. Since the technology bust and dot.com crisis there have been a number of high profile bankruptcies resulting in investors making more critical assessments of investment decisions. Generally these were new companies or ones that went through ... ...

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... such as cash bonuses intended to reward the achievement of key annual performance goals. Long-term incentives such as nonqualified stock options became very popular in the 1990's as the dot.com bubble grew. Intended to keep the executive tied to the company and focused on long-term performance, stock options have encouraged executives to make decisions based on enhancing the ... ...

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