For me, the biggest similarity between now and the late 1990s is the impending sense of economic slowdown, e.g. http://seekingalpha.com/article/49434-economists

For me, the biggest similarity between now and the late 1990s is the impending sense of economic slowdown, e.g. http://seekingalpha.com/article/49434-economists-reduce-2008-growth-outlook-for-third-time?source=feed http://seekingalpha.com/article/49434-economists-reduce-2008... I remember at the end of 2000 (I was working for an i-bank at the time) everyone was talking about the "possibility of recession next year".