Why one Wall Street firm sees parallels to the late 1970s and recommends shorting U.S. stocks

Economy MarketWatch By Steve Goldstein 09 Oct 2026 08:49 1 min read
Why one Wall Street firm sees parallels to the late 1970s and recommends shorting U.S. stocks

The artificial-intelligence build-out is most often associated with the dot-com boom at the end of the last century, but quants at one Wall Street giant have identified another parallel: the bell-bottomed, polyester suit, high-inflation era of the late 1970s.

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