I realise its misspelled, but your only the 3rd person to notice!
As to the dot com bubble and the current market environment I seriously doubt the long term prospects. The rate of managerial pay has increased out of proportion to financial success, its one of the reasons i find this shortnighedness.
Were sacrificing long term liquidity for short term profitablity.
And the market conditions, regulations wise are far closer to the 20's than the 80's. Were not coming from a highly regulated market.