Imagine you are starring in the financial equivalent of the “Life On Mars” TV show. You wake up one morning to find you have time-travelled back to the early nineteen nineties. The Berlin Wall has just fallen. The triumph of capitalism is unleashing a tsunami of globalization as billions of people join the market economy as workers and consumers.
It’s déjà vu all over again. That’s what the rip-roaring bull market in Chinese stocks looks like to anyone who lived through the late 1980s Japanese bubble.