May. 9 at 6:04 PM
$QQQ ~ This is what you should expect to see at the peak of a market cycle. The proposed 2026 takeover of the original 1990’s meme stock eBay by the 2020’s meme stock icon GameStop (GME) shares thematic & market top euphoric psychology similarities with the Jan 2000 dotcom peak AOL-Time Warner merger, often cited as a "disastrous" pairing of legacy and digital entities. Both scenarios involve a high-risk attempt by a smaller, volatile entity to acquire a much larger, established firm to create a new, hybrid business model at the peak of tech market euphoria. The Dot-Com Crash: The AOL-Time Warner deal was signed at the peak of the internet bubble euphoria in Q1 2000. Shortly after closing, AOL's stock-which was used as the primary currency for the deal-plummeted along with the entire Nasdaq for 3 years until 2003 bottom.
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