Is this a new tech bubble?

After a decade in the doldrums, the Nasdaq 100 indexis rapidly closing in on its post-millennium peak. Paul Amery asks if history is repeating itself.

The tech stock boom and bust of 1998-2002 was one of the greatest ever market bubbles, taking its place in the history books alongside Amsterdam's 17th-century tulip mania, the UK's South Sea fiasco of 1720 and the Wall Street craze of the 1920s.

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Paul Amery

Paul is a multi-award-winning journalist, currently an editor at New Money Review. He has contributed an array of money titles such as MoneyWeek, Financial Times, Financial News, The Times, Investment and Thomson Reuters. Paul is certified in investment management by CFA UK and he can speak more than five languages including English, French, Russian and Ukrainian. On MoneyWeek, Paul writes about funds such as ETFs and the stock market.