{"id":731579,"date":"2010-05-23T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sp500-vs-nikkei-2010-5"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:41:39","slug":"how-to-know-very-shortly-whether-were-on-the-path-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/731579","title":{"rendered":"How To Know Very Shortly Whether We&#8217;re On The Path Of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/dshort.com\/charts\/mega-bear-2000-comparisons.html?mega-bear-2000-extended\">Doug Short (Dshort.com)<\/a> has updated his excellent mega-bears chart to take into account last week&#8217;s big drop in the stock market.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, from a timing perspective, it lines up fairly nicely with a major leg down in the Nikkei (when our peak is overlaid with theirs&#8230; he uses the peak of the .com bubble to show our one true peak).<\/p>\n<p>So if we have a sharp rebound then our path doesn&#8217;t look anything like theirs. On the other hand, if we keep falling, then there&#8217;s a scary historical precedent about what could lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bf92d927f8b9a6028330700-599-432\/chart.png?resize=599%2C432\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" width=\"599\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sp500-vs-nikkei-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/YSJLERSSNJ0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent&#8230; Doug Short (Dshort.com) has updated his excellent mega-bears chart to take into account last week&#8217;s big drop in the stock market. As you can see, from a timing perspective, it lines up fairly nicely with a major leg down in the Nikkei (when our peak is overlaid with theirs&#8230; he uses the peak of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34jF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833103,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731579\/revisions\/833103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}