In 2000 and 2001, NASDAQ was down more than 70%. So here we are, we've been down by 35%. I think 40%, maybe at the max, 35% at the max. What happened after is that it turned out that the internet was for real. And so these things are real. These change the real and they are creating the need for new digital solutions. But of course when we were all at home looking at the markets, that was a time of great enthusiasm,. valuations ran very high historically. It's not such an outlier that the S&P is down 15 to 20%. The patterns are there from 20 years ago.
Everything feels unprecedented if you don’t study history, and 2022 wasn’t unique for the stock market. Morgan Housel is the best-selling author of “The Psychology of Money”. He joined Motley Fool co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner for a conversation about:
- Why cash is a better hedge against inflation than many believe - Parallels between the 2022 stock market and the dot-com bust of the early 2000s - What Tesla investors can learn from Starbucks’ past decline Companies discussed: BRK.A, BRK.B, TSLA, SBUX Host: Tom Gardner Guest: Morgan Housel Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Tim Sparks, Rick Engdahl
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