Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The idea that we *have to* relax restrictions immediately to forestall widespread business failures or mass starvation founders on the fact that the government can issue debt at negative inflation-adjusted interest rates. Spend more money. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 6, 2020 Hibernated

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What we should do is have the government spend money. — PolitiTweet.org

This isn’t about greed. It’s survival. People can’t buy food or pay rent or mortgages. Small businesses are closing… https://t.co/mQ0ylVEx2w

Posted May 6, 2020 Hibernated

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At a minimum, observes should get the direction of causality correct here. Trump blocked the idea of financial assistance to state and local governments specifically in order to force them to compromise public health. Everything else is downstream of that. https://t.co/tUl8cYv0fQ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 6, 2020 Hibernated