Stocks haven’t hit bottom yet, says the analyst who called a ‘rolling recession’ when everyone else saw a boom

Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson spent years insisting a “rolling recession” was hiding in plain sight while Wall Street celebrated what appeared to be a boom. Now he’s back with another contrarian call: half the stock market is already in a bear market, the correction has been grinding for six months, and investors panicking this week arrived late.

In a note published Monday, Wilson — Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. equity strategist — argued that the dramatic volatility roiling markets recently is not the beginning of a selloff.