Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Last 5’9” president was Truman who inherited office when FDR died. Then it’s all 19th century guys most of whom were above average in their era. https://t.co/HcfRjGh2Ij — PolitiTweet.org

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Has nobody pointed out yet that Ron DeSantis is way too short to be president? — PolitiTweet.org

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Abundance! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: @Bouje99 I’m not sure if they amount of money year-round would realistically cost is at all feasible, but I definitely th… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bouje99 I’m not sure if they amount of money year-round would realistically cost is at all feasible, but I definitely think that at the margin we should have more school days and compensate teachers accordingly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@fmanjoo Well yeah, lots of people (most people?) are pretty conservative in their political views. — PolitiTweet.org

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Distinct from error, one reason I think current polling is underrating Repubicans' odds is that Dems have spent a lot of money on early ads to "define" their opponents while the GOP is holding their fire for after Labor Day. They will get a boost when they hit the airwaves. — PolitiTweet.org

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I criticized school closures before Trump did! My most far-right political opinion is that public schools are valuable and important and that the work that teachers do in classrooms has meaningful impact on the world. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 Racial issues in general have faded as a subject of controversy relative to both economics and trans topics. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin I gave you credit when a counselor at my kid's day camp asked me why I was wearing a vintage nuclear power plant hat this morning. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RogerPielkeJr @TheBTI Yes, there is much too much emphasis put on trying to anathematize contrary views. In this case I think we had a nesting doll of dysfunctional groupthink on climate inside dysfunctional groupthink on austerity. Arguing-by-bullying is a big problem. https://t.co/UkWScj0Fjs — PolitiTweet.org

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@RogerPielkeJr @TheBTI True! We were wrong. In my defense, *at the time* (this was like 2010 or right?) there was a very firm consensus that we needed significant deficit reduction which made an investment-led approach hard and pricing seem more realistic. — PolitiTweet.org

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I have stronger opinions about the policy debates of 2009-2010 than about the ones of 2022, since with the benefit of hindsight we can now be much more certain about who was correct. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Judith_Bethulia Yes, that's perfect. — PolitiTweet.org

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Historical takes https://t.co/56UksbnGkf — PolitiTweet.org

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Permitting reform is the Real IRA https://t.co/mDsi7cOusv — PolitiTweet.org

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@LorenAdler Very proletarian — PolitiTweet.org

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Dalton is too easy (references on Gossip Girl!) true elites are the ones who can describe the difference between Collegiate and Packer Collegiate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RichardRubinDC I'm tanned, rested, and ready. — PolitiTweet.org

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Folks who were around for pre-2012 politics may recall that basically all tax policy debates used to revolve around the choice of a current law or current policy baseline. https://t.co/vBKXVUb7Jz — PolitiTweet.org

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@JStein_WaPo You have to understand that 10-15 years ago, half of politics was just arguing about baselines. https://t.co/cVbU8QJr8M — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a useful chart — loan payments are going to surge next year but will be much lower than the pre-pandemic trend. Go forth and choose the baseline that makes your position look better! https://t.co/5rfCQSe5t7 — PolitiTweet.org

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In these kind of cases, private sector data and analysis tends to be useful since you can obviously argue for either baseline depending on what point you want to make. Goldman is saying to its clients that they are not revising their inflation estimates upwards. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now the counterargument goes that the moratorium was scheduled to expire, so the right baseline to use is current law (repayment resumes with no forgiveness) rather than current policy (moratorium stays in place forever). But both perspectives have some value. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fresh analysis from Jan Hatzius & co. at Goldman Sachs says the aggregate impact is slightly DISinflationary. https://t.co/6WShf484P4 — PolitiTweet.org

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An important point about loans and inflation — baselines! Biden is ending the repayment moratorium (which will tend to reduce consumption and inflationary pressure) at the same time as canceling debt for non-rich people (which will have the opposite effect). Which dominates? — PolitiTweet.org

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@helaineolen @brianbeutler Stipulating that literally every person who tweets is bad, I still think the question of who is right on the merits seems interesting and significant. — PolitiTweet.org

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The problem is this is a tedious macroeconomic issue that has nothing to do with people’s feelings about student loans or the role of college in society or generational fairness or anything else people find interesting. — PolitiTweet.org

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*If that’s false* and Biden just helped some people out, then being mad about it is pure irrational spite. But if it’s true, then it’s a valid complaint. — PolitiTweet.org

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What makes this whole discourse so cursed is that very few people want to engage with the underlying point of disagreement which is that some people think debt forgiveness imposes an economic cost (via inflation or higher interest rates) on those who don’t get it. — PolitiTweet.org