Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@HeerJeet What’s interesting is we *had* fiat currency during the Civil War era and for a while after the war and it wasn’t causing any problems, but an elite consensus emerged to go backwards to gold and even the populists had all these ideas about silver instead of fiat. — PolitiTweet.org

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Don’t let this happen! Economic policymakers can’t make the virus go away, and they can’t end police misconduct or stop irresponsible people from doing vandalism but they really really really can prevent *nominal* spending from collapsing (hint: spend more money). — PolitiTweet.org

CBO’s revised economic projections from several weeks ago show a cumultive loss in nominal output of $15.7 trillion… https://t.co/a8VG6dV1Ny

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@HeerJeet Silver was definitely better, just strange conceptually (but there were mining interests involved?) given that we already had practical experience with greenbacks. — PolitiTweet.org

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