[wu-ikkyu]

>Those documents are often released to tell investors and taxpayers "here is how we view the situation and why"

Indeed these tend to be more data oriented but they are still not without their great faults.

Case and point: the echo chamber of 2008 that culminated from the reports of the ratings agencies, academics, financial analysts, government regulators et al who were all pushing the same false narrative to the detriment of the investors and tax payers