{"id":313315,"date":"2025-11-23T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/the-real-world-impact-of-economic-analysis\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:01:44","slug":"the-real-world-impact-of-economic-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=313315","title":{"rendered":"The Real-World Impact of Economic Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-3639642458078178842\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p>\u00a0Individuals or small teams can move markets or persuade<br \/>\npolicymakers with incisive economic analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Economic analysis melds models, data, and experience to prognosticate<br \/>\nbroad market movements or to steer policy discussions. It is empirical but not<br \/>\nexclusively quantitative, giving both numbers and words their due weight. It<br \/>\nsynthesizes large swathes of information while searching for big picture patterns<br \/>\nthat can help businesses, investors, or policymakers to foresee the next big<br \/>\ncrisis or innovation before it overwhelms positions outflanked by an inherently<br \/>\nvolatile world.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Economic analysis differs from financial price data<br \/>\ndissemination and post-market narration, which date from the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/The_Beginnings_of_Commercial_and_Financi.html?id=pMBmAAAAMAAJ\">16<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\ncentury<\/a>. It offers less precise predictions than forecasting, which in<br \/>\nmodern form began in the <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691159119\/fortune-tellers?srsltid=AfmBOoqRSw2RBZojlzl3UTo4tuj7N1aJ83NN9Z8y6QJ2FxQt2UuFXYBi\">1920s<\/a>,<br \/>\nbecause it tries to capture sea changes, not middle run trends or short-term<br \/>\nfluctuations. Its scope far exceeds that of securities or even industry analysis.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan both exemplify the power<br \/>\nof economic analysis. The former made billions for stockholders through<br \/>\nextensive reading and contemplation rather than relying on technical signals or<br \/>\ntrading hunches. The latter\u2019s understanding of macroeconomy conditions proved<br \/>\nlargely ineffable but almost infallible as he guided U.S. monetary policy for the<br \/>\nalmost two decades now called The Great Moderation.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This post surveys three older but no less important economic<br \/>\nanalyses, <i>Economist<\/i> editor Walter Bagehot\u2019s (1826-1877) lender of last<br \/>\nresort rule, Brian Anderson\u2019s (1886-1949) case for free trade in the <i>Chase<br \/>\nEconomic Bulletin<\/i> at the apex of American protectionism, and Wilma Soss\u2019s (1900-1986)<br \/>\nempirically based campaign to put women on the board of directors of America\u2019s<br \/>\nlargest corporations.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bagehot (pronounced badge ut), longtime editor of <i>The<br \/>\nEconomist<\/i>, explicated the lender of last resort trigger rule employed by<br \/>\nthe Bank of England during the periodic financial crises that struck the City<br \/>\nof London in the Victorian Age. Sometimes called Bagehot\u2019s Dictum, the rule,<br \/>\nlaid bare by Bagehot in his 1873 book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/4359\"><i>Lombard Street<\/i><\/a>, stated<br \/>\nthat to stave off panic and contagion central banks should lend freely to all<br \/>\nborrowers with sufficient collateral at a rate of interest high relative to<br \/>\npre-panic levels. <o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Implemented but left unarticulated by U.S. Treasury<br \/>\nSecretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/40538573\">Alexander Hamilton<\/a><br \/>\n(1757? &#8211; 1804) during financial panics in 1791 and 1792, Bagehot\u2019s Rule ensured<br \/>\nthat solvent firms could borrow from the central bank when needed but had<br \/>\nincentive to do so only when no private lender would provide better terms. The<br \/>\ncollateral requirements minimized moral hazard while also protecting the<br \/>\ncentral bank from losses. In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis,<br \/>\ncentral bankers, including the Fed\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/newsevents\/speech\/madigan20090821a.htm\">Brian<br \/>\nF. Madigan<\/a>, pointed to the continued overall usefulness of Bagehot\u2019s Rule<br \/>\nwhen \u201cinterpreted in the context of the modern structure of financial markets<br \/>\nand institutions.\u201d<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A Ph.D. economist, Anderson wrote economic analyses for the <i>Chase<br \/>\nEconomic Bulletin<\/i> for much of the 1920s and 1930s. One of his themes was<br \/>\nthat America thrived due to trade, not tariffs. Policymakers ignored his<br \/>\nanalysis until America\u2019s high tariff regime exacerbated the Great Depression<br \/>\nand helped foment the Second World War. As nineteenth century French political<br \/>\neconomist Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) <a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/pages\/did-bastiat-say-when-goods-don-t-cross-borders-soldiers-will\">put<br \/>\nit<\/a>, \u201cBarriers result in isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred; hatred,<br \/>\nto war; war, to invasion.\u201d<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Especially relevant for policy discussions today, Anderson<br \/>\nwarned against what he termed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=mdp.39015069551516&amp;seq=141&amp;q1=bogey\">the<br \/>\nbalance of trade bogey<\/a>.\u201d Americans fetishized a \u201cfavorable balance of trade,\u201d<br \/>\nbut \u201cthe fear\u201d of imports, he explained, \u201cis an idle one\u201d because \u201cEurope will<br \/>\nnot merely send us goods, but will also provide us with funds with which to pay<br \/>\nfor them.\u201d \u201cA rich capitalist country,\u201d he concluded, \u201ccan afford to import<br \/>\nmore than it exports.\u201d<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Financial journalist and notorious corporate gadfly Soss used<br \/>\nher weekly NBC radio show, <i>Pocketbook News<\/i>, to push for corporate<br \/>\ngovernance reforms like cumulative voting and independent audits. <o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Importantly, Soss leveraged her empirical studies of widespread<br \/>\nfemale stockownership to induce many major U.S. corporations in the 1950s, 60s<br \/>\nand 70s to put qualified women, like <a href=\"https:\/\/cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/api\/collection\/p16694coll20\/id\/15655\/download\">Alice<br \/>\nE. Crawford<\/a> of the Corn Exchange Bank, on their boards. Women remain<br \/>\nunderrepresented in C-suites but, thanks in large part to Soss\u2019s trenchant<br \/>\nanalysis and promotional efforts, female directors are no longer anomalies. \u00a0\u00a0<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Economic analyses require information acquisition but also<br \/>\nthe ability to process data and news as rationally as possible given the natural<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/bounded-rationality\/\">constraints<\/a><br \/>\nof the human brain. Many of the best models are mental, incapable of being<br \/>\nexplicitly shared because they form from embodied human capital, or what was<br \/>\nonce known as wisdom.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">To gain an edge over competitors, economic<br \/>\nanalysts think opportunistically and flexibly, like a fox, hunter, or natural<br \/>\nintelligence, not in well-worn rows, like a hedgehog, farmer, or artificial<br \/>\nintelligence. Like Anderson, Bagehot, Buffett, Greenspan, and Soss, the best<br \/>\neconomic analysts read widely and critically, selecting readings based on their<br \/>\nperspicacity rather than reputation or popularity. Then, they write.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Individuals or small teams can move markets or persuade policymakers with incisive economic analysis. Economic analysis melds models, data, and experience to prognosticate broad market movements or to steer policy discussions. It is empirical but not exclusively quantitative, giving both numbers and words their due weight. 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