Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @ChrisMurphyCT: Good morning. If Republicans win this fall they are going to pass a national abortion ban, eliminate the $2,000 Medica… — PolitiTweet.org

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Corollary https://t.co/HPk2ASPonJ — PolitiTweet.org

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The cult of revealed preference will doom us. https://t.co/H4xTiFqFMj — PolitiTweet.org

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Monarchy is cringe. — PolitiTweet.org

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At any rate, some of the specific proposals in this piece make sense to me but burying it under obfuscation isn't helping anyone. https://t.co/jXCVdSAu7B — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm six feet tall, so when I meet a woman who's taller than I am it's a rare and somewhat memorable occurrence. There is both a real overlap in heights and also an extremely obvious difference in the averages. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's so weird to me that we are talking in circles around this when everyone knows (I think) about the idea of an average difference between two groups. https://t.co/DbvGatNOfH — PolitiTweet.org

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I love to travel (first learned that foreigners think ice water is weird while living with a Russian family when I was seventeen) but then it's great to get back home and drink something really cold. https://t.co/aJqLEKyMst — PolitiTweet.org

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America should have a program where we send young people abroad to spread the good news about ice water. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ebwhamilton: Working on a comment right now for the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development meeting where legalizing m… — PolitiTweet.org

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The fact that land use regulation got much stricter during the era of deregulation and “neoliberalism” seems to me like a significant complication of the narrative once you see how much bigger housing is than any other sector. — PolitiTweet.org

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I sometimes think I write too much about housing + transportation but they are literally half of household spending. https://t.co/z4eDyjkN68 — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin That’s fine for twitter but it’s a kind of lame column if it’s all dedicated to explaining weird data shit — PolitiTweet.org

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Good post by @simon_bazelon on the post-Dobbs political dynamics. Enacting big controversial policy changes mobilizes the other side’s base not yours! https://t.co/KhwrnALqku — PolitiTweet.org

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Now if someone wants to gamble with me I think it’s more likely that GDP will be revised up to match GDI than vice versa. But as things stand it doesn’t work as a counterintuitive fact because it’s (maybe) not true. — PolitiTweet.org

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I wanted to say that as annoying as inflation is, inflation-adjusted output is actually ahead of its pre-pandemic trend. It turns out this is is true if you use GDI but not if you use GDP and GDP is the normal figure to cite. https://t.co/Qbst37YPfU — PolitiTweet.org

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Had a perfectly good column idea ruined by the fact that when I looked up the numbers my thesis was wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vanessabcalder @jmhorp It’s great that real incomes have risen on average but that’s not really the same as the cost of something falling. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarketUrbanism Well at least they also made it illegal to build hotels — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ProfSchleich: Nice column! If you want to know more about this - about how the argument generalizes, why the value of any transportatio… — PolitiTweet.org

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Feel like Abbott should be mad about the Ron DeSantis Hype Machine, he’s the one dealing with an actual influx of asylum-seekers while also banning abortion. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve achieved a new level of boring middle-aged dad where I’ve never heard of either of the DC restaurants on this list. https://t.co/YQADMj7tAC — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcGoldwein The pattern for personal saving is similar but the numbers are lower … not sure why. https://t.co/HerQg5613J — PolitiTweet.org

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@kaschuta It’s absolutely different. Which is why it’s interesting that the experience with the ethnic Germans changed attitudes toward very different refugees. — PolitiTweet.org

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Income minus consumption looks like it’s broadly normalized after a wild ride during ARP and especially CARES. https://t.co/YL3aA1ZZKb — PolitiTweet.org

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The amount of money in people’s bank accounts shot up during the acute phase of the pandemic, then continued to grow at a rapid clip but has leveled off recently. Still well above the trend. https://t.co/gnPxgETfrm — PolitiTweet.org

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The escape from Malthusian dynamics started in 18th century Britain but only came very recently to much of the world. https://t.co/cpr8DP5MM2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Parts of Germany that received large influxes of immigrants in the 1990s are friendlier to refugees today. https://t.co/0ta994MRQ3 https://t.co/5URAwyQevS — PolitiTweet.org

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People like to drive cars and park them at their destination. But where land is expensive, mandating above-market levels of parking is very costly. https://t.co/55qhPW3E9a https://t.co/NGpcWx6kvv — PolitiTweet.org

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Past waves of innovation in transportation led to changes in built enforcement — tight clusters of density grew up around train stations and unwound when cars came onto the scene. But now prescriptive land use and parking minimums has us stuck. — PolitiTweet.org