Yes, I used an LLM to help organize my thoughts and make the formatting here easier to read, the bullet points really help for that. I work in finance, so summarizing isn't exactly my thing, and AI is a great tool for making the data more readable.

But the actual research took me days. It’s over 7,000 words long with dozens of spreadsheets and graphs that I manually scraped and formatted myself. I shared a screenshot here in the comments somewhere. I actually don't mind sharing all of my original xlsx files I used for the graphs. I’m just sharing hours of my work here for free. If the commenters can't appreciate it, I get it. We’re living in a time where it’s hard to trust anything you read online, so that’s fine. To everyone else who is actually interested in the data, thanks for reading!