This, market strategists say, is what a stock bubble looks like after it has popped.

In some ways, the catalog seems like the ghost of Halloweens past - say, 1999, when the stock bubble had people feeling rich and frisky.

He said that the bursting of the dot-com stock bubble may have brought some welcome wariness to the rising generation.

But now that the stock bubble has burst, it has become increasingly clear that there was a price to those big pay packages, after all.

When the stock bubble of the 1980's burst, Japan's economy didn't fall off a cliff.

Bring to a boil, and reduce heat so that stock bubbles vigorously.

Both generated cash that helped fuel a wave of innovation and a stock bubble.

THE stock bubble has burst, and then some.

A few economists have even asserted that stock bubbles are entirely rational.

And the job losses would have been much worse if the stock bubble hadn't been quickly replaced with a housing bubble.