There were a series of different things people did, and I'll just describe two of them that I remember companies. That with the benefit of hindsight were either, in some cases, clearly fraudulent. And in others had no economic benefit to anybody except for the speculative phenomenon that was going on. The other example that I'd give just flavors that sort of echoes from the past is the whole phenomena of using eyeballs as the measurement of value.

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