You might think it was the last wheezing months of the 1970s, when oil prices more than doubled, inflation reached double digits, and the U.S. sank into its second recession of the decade.

你可能会认为那是20世纪70年代末那几个艰难的月份，当时油价上涨了一倍多，通货膨胀率达到两位数，美国陷入了十年来的第二次衰退。