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

October 9, 2026 · 8:49 am 1 sources

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• Why one Wall Street firm sees parallels to the late 1970s and recommends shorting U.S. stocks
  MarketWatch · October 9, 2026 08:49
  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 identify another parallel: to the bell-bottomed, polyester suit, high-inflation era of the late 1970s.