Good attempt. They all agree with me. You need to have a pretty imaginative mind if you read this as anything else that the recession being the cause of the dotcom bubble.
"By early 2000, reality started to sink in. Investors soon realized that the dot-com dream had devolved into a classic speculative bubble. Within months, the NASDAQ stock index crashed from 5,000 to 2,000. Hundreds of stocks such as Pet.com, which once had multi-billion dollar market capitalizations, were off the map as quickly as they appeared. Panic selling ensued as the stock market’s value plunged by trillions of dollars. The NASDAQ further plunged to 800 by 2002. In 2001, the U.S. economy experienced a post dot-com bubble recession, which forced the Federal Reserve to repeatedly cut interest rates to stop the bleeding. "
The Dot-com Bubble | Stock Market Crash!
Why would they talk specifically about NASDAQ, dot-com and then call it a dot-com bubble recession if they think it is irrelevant to the recession?