Those of us old enough to have been at work on March 10, 2000 didn’t know that we were seeing the peak of the dot-com bubble. The NASDAQ Composite index hit an intraday high of 5,132.52 that Friday, later closing at 5,048.62. Here at home, what was then the TSE 300 had a delayed response — its climb continued another two weeks, topping 10,000 for the first time on March 23.

Something much different followed those good old days. Looking back, it’s difficult not to see the turn of the century as a pivot point after which our relatively stable world turned wobbly.

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