Obama

The greater the expectation, the more profound the disappointment.

Japanese Stock Market

James Surowiecki argues that

You can, if you’d like, argue that having companies reject the idea of shareholder value is not a bad thing from the perspective of society. But it’s undeniably a bad thing from the perspective of investors.

I agree with him that unless Japanese companies start to cater to shareholder, the stock price seems likely to continue to fall. I also think it is not necessarily bad thing. Inflated stock price is not good for economy in the the long run.