Links For Today Posted on September 18, 2025 by The Editor Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 17, 2025 How a corruption scandal and power struggle in the Z-blogosphere could paralyze the Russian military’s grassroots funding pipeline I have a paper with Cailin Slattery and Will Nober studying transportation construction in California. We assemble data on the individual engineers involved in transportation projects. What we found shifted my views about the basic issues that drive up costs. First, we found that when an extra 1% of state engineers retire, costs go up by 4.5%, which is a big effect. If you increase the quality of engineers working for the state from the 25th to the 75th percentile, that results in huge cost savings. The savings are three times the amount it costs to hire one of these engineers. This research suggests that an increase in administrator pay is a more likely cause of the negative correlation with student achievement. GM’s facility building the GMC Canyon, Chevy Colorado, and GM cargo vans, will be idling for three weeks thanks to a break in the supply chain.
