Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @PatrickRuffini: @xenocryptsite @rudnicknoah What if I told you that youth turnout is purely a function of overall interest in the elect… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: @GLElCHMONSTER @RobtNS @HeerJeet @mtsw No, I have *given* money to EA causes (specifically the GiveWell Top Charities) bu… — PolitiTweet.org

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@GLElCHMONSTER @RobtNS @HeerJeet @mtsw No, I have *given* money to EA causes (specifically the GiveWell Top Charities) but I never took any money from FTX or other EA funders. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling I will plead guilty to generalized banality and a preference for taking things at face value, but I think the idea that I deny the possibility of self-delusion or perverse consequences is wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling I think your first two tweets accurately characterize my view but the third does not. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamjohnsonNYC @HeerJeet I understand your big picture disagreement with me. I’m asking you and Jeet — as dedicated Yglesias-haters — if there are any specific claims from the piece that uou would hold up as especially bad. If you don’t want to help that’s fine. But if you do, please email. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RobtNS @HeerJeet @mtsw I did not; don’t believe I said anything about FTX in that piece either. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamjohnsonNYC @HeerJeet I obviously need to do some self inventory here and you guys are both pretty dedicated long-time Yglesias haters — would be interested to know what specific claims from that article you think hold up worst. Send nominations to [email protected] if you want to help out. — PolitiTweet.org

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My worst local DC opinion is that the Wharf is good https://t.co/l59NFZbgKL — PolitiTweet.org

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Is the Senate still really going to go forward with the Stabenow-Boozman crypto regulation bill that SBF was advocating for? Seems like you might want to pump the breaks on that. https://t.co/VFBcL4yQpc — PolitiTweet.org

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A good feature for Twitter to implement would be a system that makes it easy for users to see whether or not a given account is, in fact, the person it purports to be. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cityafreaks: You’d think that after Fetterman dropped them by Obama margins they’d take a step back and think about their approach towa… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thatMikeBishop: Many people don’t know building housing lowers prices and rents. No wonder they aren’t #YIMBY yet! @ATabarrok blogs th… — PolitiTweet.org

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Back at home I have some GBP and MXN in coin form but they are annoying to carry around. — PolitiTweet.org

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I have paper USD and EUR (the two best fiats) in my wallet as we speak. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonBrownstein Who do you have in mind specifically? — PolitiTweet.org

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we are so based we don’t care what people think it’s dark maga now no scandal can touch us let’s burn the capitol down and apologize for nothing wait oh wait people think we’re creeps and weirdos and criminals and that’s bad how dare those democrats demonize us — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro @janecoaston People say they want authenticity from politicians but it can be taken too far — PolitiTweet.org

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Now if it comes out that people who were getting his grants or leading major EA institutions were telling people it's a really great idea to put your money into cryptocurrency and trade a lot on FTX that would be very damning about them. And I'm sure people are looking into this. — PolitiTweet.org

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Obviously, I will revisit this issue in an article next week but I did try to flag that believing in the sincerity of SBF's EA interests is not necessarily a reason to assume his business activities are benign... https://t.co/of5vwacTn5 https://t.co/n1aSJo8hza — PolitiTweet.org

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I think this piece holds up okay, all things considered — a lot of misconduct about FTX has been revealed but absolutely no evidence that Bankman-Fried's EA funding was a covert lobbying scheme on behalf of cryptocurrency. — PolitiTweet.org

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I used to have an account at Riggs Bank which got caught up in several money-laundering scandals generating fines that pushed the bank toward insolvency. But there was no run, I never once thought about withdrawing my funds (they were insured), and PNC took it over. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHWeissmann That's what it's for! — PolitiTweet.org

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I keep my money in regulated US-based financial institutions with FDIC and SIPC insurance. — PolitiTweet.org

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That means you either end up spending more $$$ to achieve the same goal, or else generating a lower level of service for a given quantity of $$$ than you should have. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a Swiss mantra "organization before electronics before concrete." The American way is to do the opposite of that — instead of solving coordination problems, optimizing operational practices, and changing regulations we build around these issues. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a useful discussion here of why they didn't do it my way — the decision narrowly makes sense if you understand the constraints decision-makers understood themselves to be operating with. But the constraints could have been avoided. https://t.co/Ren4mdNo7b — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of people adopted a learned helplessness attitude to oil prices, but Biden (with some lag) shook it off and recognized that the United States is now the Saudi Arabia of oil and has real ability to impact world prices. https://t.co/15NSCF32DO https://t.co/oHFybL7xNx — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm talking about it! To which I will add that the administration's embrace of a forward-looking contingent supply strategy to use the SPR to stabilize world oil prices is going to be very important over the next few years. https://t.co/15NSCF32DO — PolitiTweet.org

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People were discussing this in a locked thread but it really is silly how much of WMATA Metro Rail is duplicative of existing mainline rail that should have been upgraded to S-Bahn service levels and then complemented with new construction. — PolitiTweet.org