"This creates a “bit” of challenge. We can observe that the military implements systematically and produces superior results, but we cannot cleanly separate method effects from selection effects without experiments that will never happen."
The writer of this article (Dave) publicly dislikes Derek Thompson and keeps criticizing Matt Ygelasis for his austerity fetish, along with praising Mamdani
It uses Oil & Gas shocks, rather than a sectoral analysis among o&g. I think it is because big firms are in big cities, who seem to be able to handle shocks better than other companies in other cities
A big reason that people say intrest rate hikes or cost cutting is good because it makes people "work smarter with less" or some other BS or have the economy focus on what matters
I think this is sort of cool to find out that a town in Korea take advantage of being on the DMZ to actually get more support for families
> Yanggu County, one of South Korea's smallest regions (population: 21,000), leverages its DMZ-adjacent military population (80% of residents) and healthcare innovation to achieve a 1.52 fertility rate.
> The implications of these differences become clear in times of crisis. When COVID-19 struck, agencies struggled to adapt their operations quickly and effectively—precisely the kind of capability that systematic process understanding and improvement would have facilitated. The same patterns emerged during the 2008 financial crisis and Hurricane Katrina response.
Inflation and immigration would both qualify as crisises that admins fail to handle
> Brainard and Carmel aren't the only ones: Despite post-bankruptcy fiscal constraints and a hostile state government (at least until Governor Whitmier), Detriot has seen infrastructure and amenity improvements under Mayor Mike Duggan, but it still has a long way to go.
They also referred to Detriot's own investments during a tight time