Meet the Street: Dissecting the Dot-Com Debacle

Many catchy phrases have been inspired by the dot-com downfall: dot-bomb, dot-carnage, dot-gone. Now you can add dot-con to the list.

John Cassidy Author, Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

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In Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, business and economics writer John Cassidy tells the sorry tale of the billions of dollars raised and subsequently lost during the dot-com gold rush of the mid-to-late 1990s. Two of the leading analysts at the eye of the storm, Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Henry Blodget of Merrill Lynch, certainly bear some of the responsibility, Cassidy says.

But so does the rest of the investment industry, he says, from the venture capitalists in Silicon Valley to the underwriters in the canyons of Wall Street. ...