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482. Is Venture Capital the Secret Sauce of the American Economy?

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Venture Capital - What Happened in Silicon Valley in the Nineties?

Vulcar shock fed chairman paul volker's campaign to tame inflation. With interest rates down, investors were looking for other ways to make money. In the early 19 nineties, venture capital was a very small segment of the financial system. The great tec internet, dot com bubble of the second half of the nineties turned what was still a pretty marginal activity into an industry.

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