[mikestew]

With the .com bubble you had to find a specific stock to buy and go through all the rigmarole of buying it.

You mean click a mouse? Buying a stock in 1999 was a lot like buying a stock now. I don’t recall how fast one could go from account creation to trading, but eTrade has been around for a while. A lot of folks had a 401K account that probably had a trading account of sort as well, so there might not have even been a barrier.

Not saying you might not be right, but buying stocks wasn’t all that hard in the 90s, either.