In this comparison of the SP 500 declines in the bear markets of 2000-3
and 2007-9 we perform a more precise time comparison.
In each chart the end point is exactly 183 days from the top.
"You are the very cause of your ignorance, yourselves. You put away the light, yourselves; you first pluck out both your own eyes, yourselves; and after that other men’s too, so that the blind may lead the blind, until you both fall into the pit.”
Thomas More, The Sadness of Christ (Gethsemane), Tower of London, 1535