"first, before the Great Crash, there will be a slump, it will be clear, then it will smooth out, return to normal, and it will seem that everything is OK, and shortly after this slump – it's hard to say what the word 'shortly' means, it could be a few weeks, it could be a few months – but I said shortly after this slump, a great total crash will occur, a crash I called of Western countries, a crash in America, it will be such an unevenness that this crash will affect Asian countries less, it will mainly be a crash of Western countries"