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http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/02/tv_frontline012502.html "Dot Con" With Martin Smith Producer/Filmmaker, "Frontline" Friday, Jan. 25, 2002; 11 a.m. EST When the Internet bubble burst in March 2000, unlucky investors watched more than $3 trillion of their money disappear. What spurred the incredible dot-com bull run on Wall Street? Was the public blinded by dreams of small fortunes and easy living or did the nation 's investment banks manipulate the IPO market and exploit public trust? >> http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svtop/ipoms070801.htm For the past few months, the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers have been investigating whether Wall Street investment bankers broke the law when doling out IPOs during the tech-stock mania of 1998-2000. >>From Tuesday's [SiliconValley.com] Wiretap: BLAME GAME: It's early yet, but 2002 is shaping up to be a good year for documentaries exhuming the dot-com corpse. In addition to ``Wild At Start'' (www.wildatstart.com), which made its broadcast debut on San Jose's KTEH-TV (Ch. 54) earlier this month, and ``e-dreams'' (www.edreamsmovie.com), a behind-the-scenes look at the implosion of Kozmo.com, now comes the bluntly titled ```Dot Con,'' which premieres Thursday night at 10 on KQED (Ch. 9). http://www.wildatstart.com http://www.edreamsmovie.com The film, on which Wall Street Journal columnist Kara Swisher consulted, tries to figure out just what happened to the $3 trillion in stock-market gains that disappeared after the bubble burst last spring. It pokes into allegations that investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston rigged the initial-public-offering game.
