Allegheny Economic Research exists to produce rigorous, independent economic analysis. For a long time, that work has been delivered directly to clients — reports, models, advisory sessions. This section changes that.
AER Insights is where we publish shorter-form work: notes on macroeconomic conditions, commentary on policy developments, observations on regional economic trends, and the occasional technical post on research methods and AI-assisted workflows.
What to expect
The posts here will fall into a few recurring categories:
Macro commentary. Periodic notes on the business cycle, monetary policy, labor markets, and financial conditions. These won’t be trading signals — they’ll be attempts to reason carefully about where the economy is and where it’s likely to go.
Policy analysis. When significant legislation or regulatory action crosses our desk, we’ll write up what the evidence says about likely effects. Short-run disruption, long-run adjustment, distributional consequences — the kind of analysis that often gets squeezed out of political coverage.
Regional economics. Western Pennsylvania and the broader Allegheny region are genuinely interesting economies — post-industrial transition, energy sector exposure, a large university presence. We’ll write about what’s happening here specifically.
Southeast Asian economies. Additonally, given my background and time spent in Southeast Asia, I plan to produce analysis and research related to the region — especially Viet Nam, Thailand and Indonesia. Singapore due to its financial importance will, naturally, play a role too.
Research notes. We use agentic AI systems extensively in our research workflows. When we learn something useful — about retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, workflow design — we’ll share it.
A note on independence
Everything published here represents our own analysis. We don’t write to please clients, manage market positions, or signal political alignment. We follow the evidence where it leads and say so when the evidence is thin.
If you have a question, a disagreement, or a research topic you’d like us to address, reach out at info@alleghenyecon.com.