After The Hype

By the time it had run its course, the Great Internet Hype Machine had left no corner of the economy, or our lives, for that matter, unscathed. The pension arena was no exception: The baying of dot.coms pursuing e-commerce opportunities filled the air. Many of the ambitions that were so nakedly revealed during those brash days have gone the way of the Hindenberg. Few of them will be mourned.