Random Trivia: Japan's Stock Market (Nikkei) is still 14% below its 1989 high

Nearly ten years before the Asian Currency collapse
the Nikkei 225 Index hit its all-time high.


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Today it is still 14% below that mark, (farther when one accounts for inflation.)
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In a country where they literally have tsunamis the cause could be anything,
But most likely it comes from growing the government a lot faster than the underlying GDP.