Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@erikbryn I could tell you a lot about excess American spending on train stations but idk about electrification. There aren't a lot of big projects I can think of — when Amtrak electrified between Boston and New Haven in the 90s they did it for much less than Caltrain. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the worst legacies of Covid has been backing away from the idea that there should be mandatory schooling up to some reasonable age. — PolitiTweet.org

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Caltrain is doing a 51-mile electrification for a mere $2.3 billion — other American agencies aren’t bothering to try. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you got the Biden, Trump, Obama, and Bush CEA members in a room and let them write a bipartisan tax-and-energy bill it would push emissions down way below anything Democrats could pass a on party-like vote in the House. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nilocobau Should try to do a bipartisan NEPA reform and tell the groups to fuck off — PolitiTweet.org

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The idea that economists (rather than voters’ desire for cheap energy and the objective technical difficulties of the problem) are the key impediment to solving climate change is one of the weirdest leftist brain worms. https://t.co/U3K74DNxR2 https://t.co/UyyUSSCgxP — PolitiTweet.org

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EIA says US oil production will reach an all-time high next year (Dark Brandon rides again) but that refinery capacity has fallen so output of refined products (i.e. gasoline) will not — maybe someone should do something about this? https://t.co/7Xjr7CPLm3 — PolitiTweet.org

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What is the difference between Italy’s three rightwing parties — is it just personality conflicts between leaders? — PolitiTweet.org

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Tired: Learn to code Wired: Learn to fly a plane https://t.co/z3urPF6dJe — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss I can recommend a good villa in Tuscany https://t.co/PYdLdokGeH — PolitiTweet.org

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This dude does not seem like he should have an important job running the government https://t.co/nBO3tRKlCz — PolitiTweet.org

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@KAErdmann I guess I’d say that I would like some country I don’t live in (Australia or whatever) to run the academic experiment while the Fed sticks with practical banker wisdom until we see a real world trial. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I think the Fed staff would tell you that the sudden shift strategy is all well and good in academia but in the real world would create market chaos and political panic. It is not obvious to me that this is true, but I can sympathize with the reluctance to experiment. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a smart rather than a dumb question — the Fed is change-averse and following a well-established pattern both at home and abroad but I don’t think “slow and steady” has real support in the literature over “move quickly to the endpoint and adjust from there.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Just need to tell everyone that “worship of the written word” is white supremacy culture and the problem is solved. https://t.co/57fb7SgxqZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @gelliottmorris @Nate_Cohn @marcushjohnson To me that’s the key point — the *rhetoric* of the racial resentment construct tends to imply we are only talking about white people. But while white voters are of course important (most voters are white!) the relevant attitudes are cross-ethnic. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dhmontgomery: @mattyglesias @gelliottmorris @Nate_Cohn @davidshor @marcushjohnson And some research by @RyanDEnos/ Riley Carney suggest… — PolitiTweet.org

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@gelliottmorris @Nate_Cohn @davidshor @marcushjohnson Again, I think the stakes here are largely about labeling — “we need messages that appeal to working class values” sounds nice but if you say “we need messages that appeal to racial resentment” you’ll get tossed out of the meeting. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gelliottmorris @Nate_Cohn @davidshor @marcushjohnson I think the fact that RR has this loaded name ends up looming large in this debate — “Dems should court less-educated voters!” sounds good while “Dems should court racially resentful voters!” sounds bad. But it’s essentially the same group and many of them aren’t white. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin I think the more plausible alt scenario is one where Manchin and a few others say they want to do the Collins-Romney Covid relief proposal instead of ARP and Biden launches his presidency with a bipartisan win. https://t.co/gh3qAqArP5 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KristinEberhard: The Texas power grid is under strain again, due to unanticipated outages at . . . wait for it . . . fossil fuel plants… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @samkarlin: Here's the account from a New Orleans doctor, who was told by her hospital's lawyer she couldn't perform a D&E on a 16-weeks… — PolitiTweet.org

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Very cool opportunity here — PolitiTweet.org

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The most important part of a consumer price index is housing, but nobody agrees on how this should be measured. Would be better to target something like nominal income or nominal wages or the GDP deflator that is not subject to these conceptual issues. https://t.co/FegHW0ydjw — PolitiTweet.org

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Really interesting thread here on how the geography of wages has shifted over the past few years with more going on than white collar remote work — PolitiTweet.org

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Huge day for price index nerds! (Hot take: If central banks are going to insist on inflation targeting they should target GDP deflators instead of consumer prices) — PolitiTweet.org

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@nominalthoughts @Noahpinion https://t.co/3IFprM2Jxm — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion I mostly agree but where’d you get 200 from? — PolitiTweet.org

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The humane impulse that leads people to oppose clearing tent encampments is admirable but what we ought to be doing is *legalizing a much wider array of housing* not congratulating ourselves on people sleeping in tents in what are supposed to be parks. https://t.co/VkRm1FeWAo — PolitiTweet.org

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Great piece complementing some of the arguments I’ve made about rooming houses, SROs, etc — PolitiTweet.org