Echoes of the dotcom bubble?

One of the salient features of the biggest US stock market bubble of modern times, which burst in 2000, was that it inflated especially rapidly during its final stage. To what extent is something similar happening now? And what does this earlier episode suggest might happen to the stock market this year?

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