And then they watched it all evaporate. They watched the insiders and the bankers, the lucky and the elite, walk away scot-free while they, the hardworking Americans who did what they were told, lost everything. And all of that would happen to them again less than a decade later, only this time, in the housing market. The bursting of the dot-com bubble was the opening act of our current economic era, and the repercussions from that bubble’s aftermath are still with us today, economically, socially, and especially politically.
