Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @davidshor: @JohnQuiggin @shorewalker1 Non-college whites who make less than 25k per year voted for Obama in 2012, Trump won them by >40… — PolitiTweet.org

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@hyperplanes @RyanRadia Yes. I’m so jealous of people like you. Key adaptation for the modern world. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @M_C_Klein: Responsible countries don't want to bail out irresponsible neighbors who wasted opportunities to make good choices. I get i… — PolitiTweet.org

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Actually what I wrote is good and not dumb. — PolitiTweet.org

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What we need is more babies and more immigrants. https://t.co/A9LcxeKRSc — PolitiTweet.org

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The big picture point here isn’t about Chicago, though, it’s about America — our population growth rate has become so low that relative decline in demand (which is bound to be happening somewhere at any given time) easily slips into absolute decline, which is dangerous. — PolitiTweet.org

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The difference is that lots of cities were either in decline already pre-pandemic or else were so expensive pre-pandemic that even after a hit to demand, market prices are still way above replacement costs. Chicago is unusual in that it may have slipped below the horizon. — PolitiTweet.org

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Chicago has thus far avoided that fate because it’s biggest and most amenity/rich Midwestern city. But *all* central cities are facing a negative shock to their tax base and residential demand thanks to remote work and they all have a problem on their hands as a result. — PolitiTweet.org

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These aren’t cities without significant assets either — that’s precisely the tragedy of it, when cities enter spirals of decline tremendous amounts of physical capital along with cultural amenities and social institutions end up wasting away. — PolitiTweet.org

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We have seen multiple once-thriving Midwestern cities slip into a downward spiral of population decline, shrinking tax base, and diminished opportunities — when market prices slip below replacement costs bad things happen even to great cities. — PolitiTweet.org

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People get upset when you say anything non-boosterish about their city and I get that understand why. So I want to be clear — this isn’t coming from a place of Chicago-hate (it’s great!) or denial that it has tremendous assets. That’s why I’m worried. https://t.co/QyGjPrLzey — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @paytonchung: 1st examination of a near-citywide upzoning, not targeted upzoning. When compared to a counterfactual, the upzoning increa… — PolitiTweet.org

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@chicagosamir I would love to come back to Chicago — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateSilver538 My sense of the industry is that the causation goes the other way — people with neurotic views on Covid are more interested in reading Covid news so over time that kind of content gets more clicks and predominates. — PolitiTweet.org

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Great thread here — Manchin is jeopardizing hydrogen, advanced nuclear, CCS, and other technologies he’s long championed and I sincerely hope he will reconsider. — PolitiTweet.org

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Highlighting GOP extremism and separating religious right fanatics from some of their newer friends is smart and Democrats should keep up the heat. — PolitiTweet.org

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What shows is Biden going to binge-watch in quarantine? I had a lot of fun with an Entourage rewatch. — PolitiTweet.org

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Guy who thinks this is smart politics because it’ll fire up the base — PolitiTweet.org

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I love European conceptions of American cuisine https://t.co/dX88h8HYWz — PolitiTweet.org

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My seven year-old has a weird condition where he just eats half an ice cream cone and then declares that he’s full and stops eating it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Important paper from @JoeUscinski and co-authors finds there is no evidence that belief in conspiracy theories is becoming more widespread https://t.co/WCKecBRicS — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden should work to heal the partisan divide by taking ivermectin along with the paxlovid. — PolitiTweet.org

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Average renaissance ceiling https://t.co/vhLU1IfpBZ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aaron_renn: "The first two times I went to Chicago, all I could think about was, 'why doesn’t everyone move here?' Then I went in Febru… — PolitiTweet.org

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Developers only want to build luxury palazzos with marble statues and large courtyards. https://t.co/PA37BKUCep — PolitiTweet.org

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Seems like a bad way to hold a sword https://t.co/ZNDqWgIKP3 — PolitiTweet.org

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The basic intuition is that if demand for NYC drops, that just means prices fall — it’s a fiscal adjustment for the city but it won’t actually depopulate. Chicago takes a similar hit from remote but from a standpoint where it was already affordable. https://t.co/QyGjPrLzey — PolitiTweet.org

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Remote work has generated a lot of discourse about super-expensive cities like San Francisco and New York, but the place that I think is really going to be in big trouble is Chicago. https://t.co/QyGjPrtXPY — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamheimlich @zingales Yes, I’m convinced — PolitiTweet.org

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@lucaxx85 @lionel_trolling I just made it up because I like proposing train projects and Milan is good at building trains for reasonable prices — it’s going to go here. https://t.co/gh3HhWU2pO — PolitiTweet.org