The date the last time the Nikkei was this low:
The last time Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average was at today’s level, headbands and legwarmers were in, Steven Spielberg’s E.T. topped box offices, and Michael Jackson’s Thriller was about to be released.
That was 1982, the fifth year of a rally that pushed the Nikkei to nearly 40,000 by the end of 1989 in an asset bubble that purportedly made the land around the Imperial Palace as valuable as all of California.
But it always goes up in the long run, right?
Right?