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I you care to draw an analogy with any other asset bubble, it would have to be the Japanese Asset Price Bubble. Just reading the article in Wikipedia.org will give you the feeling you're reading a roadmap for the North American Asset Price Bubble. You can probably get an idea of what follows the market rout here by looking at the long term Nikkei.

Even the currency fluctuations have meaning, as well as the interest rate prognostications.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble

Japanese rates are negative, and trending to deflationary or liquidity trap conditions after much effort at raising inflation. Will they go the way of Europe, where rates decline along the yield curve up to the ten-year bond?

http://www.cnbc.com/bonds-japan-treasurys/

Would comparing the Nikkei with the $US Dollar gold price be fair? You would have to come up with a Yen based gold price to get an idea, and then compare this with the Nikkei. Stockcharts doesn't have gold prices in individual currency.

http://schrts.co/mNvyQL

-F6