Bloomberg Opinion reports: Meanwhile, the historical evidence is that growth stocks are a bad place to hide in a major crash. For those who are jittery, growth must seem particularly unappealing. The following numbers are from James Monroe of Investment Metrics, and show the relative performance of a range of growth factors during the Black Monday crash of 1987, the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000, the Great Financial Crisis, and the Covid selloff two years ago — which is revealed to be an extreme outlier.