so we used to have a team of Economists, a few emeritus, that would write reports telling the government the effect of mergers on the stock price
eventually the gov't wizened up and realized no value was being added here, it was a jenga tower of assumptions that was meaningless
nice gig though, giving opinions based on 1,000 assumptions and when it doesn't pan out, you blame assumption #737 for not coming through
******..........