Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @razibkhan: the funny thing is in india the left eats meat to own the right. all this stuff is so silly — PolitiTweet.org

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@marcscribner @salimfurth @ModeledBehavior Wait why was Delta opposed to that? — PolitiTweet.org

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@salimfurth @marcscribner @ModeledBehavior https://t.co/JXmHGjZ6O2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@salimfurth @marcscribner @ModeledBehavior Ex-Im just seemed like a weird choice — instead of picking an example of rent-seeking with high objective stakes they picked one because of Eric Cantor’s “close relationship” with a Delta lobbyist. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rmc031 Grandmaster Flash paints a pretty bleak picture in “The Message.” https://t.co/b8TlXhhAry — PolitiTweet.org

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@rmc031 I have also read this in books but when I’ve talked to old people who were middle class in the 1970s they remember it differently. I think the key thing is gas rationing contained formal price inflation but annoyed the hell out of everyone. — PolitiTweet.org

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Real longtermism is finding ways to use AI to annoy rich people so they get it made illegal. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EthanBWinter: WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BrendanNyhan: A horrible market protected by horrible state franchise laws and a lack of consumer protections. Desperate need for legal… — PolitiTweet.org

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Whole states populated by the descendants of cattle-rustlers — PolitiTweet.org

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@ModeledBehavior @marcscribner Not a criticism of you, personally, but if a conservative movement that I think is excessively pessimistic about the potential of focused work on specific market reforms. — PolitiTweet.org

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@marcscribner @ModeledBehavior I wish rightwing donors would engage in less defeatism about public choice issues and fund more focused advocacy on specific reforms in high-value areas. — PolitiTweet.org

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And we need to acknowledge that one of the consequences of achieving full employment is all the annoying pain-in-the-ass economist shit about efficiency matters a lot now. https://t.co/hnvfTBXqrK — PolitiTweet.org

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We need to recognize the significant deployment barriers to the technologies we have (transmission, permitting, minerals) and clear the decks for construction of new infrastructure. https://t.co/wvpyYGjYbN — PolitiTweet.org

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Energy policy that takes seriously the fruits of abundance and sees increasing clean energy supply as much more important than curtailing fossil fuels. https://t.co/8irpi1OwHk — PolitiTweet.org

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You need to address problems on their own terms — adequate stimulus during recessions so the student loan system doesn’t become state governments’ de facto lender of last resort. https://t.co/f1vSFZG1oY — PolitiTweet.org

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Energy scarcity is incredibly economically harmful and in the United States it happened to coincide with a somewhat overheated labor market. But look at Europe right now where the labor market’s not overheated at all — expensive energy still sucks! https://t.co/7nj0VLVn98 — PolitiTweet.org

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I worry a lot about elected officials drawing a false macroeconomic policy conclusions (the voters prefer sluggish growth and high unemployment to slightly overheated labor markets) based on a specific voter backlash to expensive gasoline & groceries. — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyways obviously that’s dumb. But I do think that if wages grow faster than the price of food/energy commodities people won’t really care about ~~inflation~~ very much. — PolitiTweet.org

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Critics said cancelling student debt would make inflation worse, but gasoline got cheaper. https://t.co/x6iJoXvdAN — PolitiTweet.org

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Critics said student debt cancellation would make inflation worse, get gasoline got cheaper. https://t.co/aEo6nOBXoF — PolitiTweet.org

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@ModeledBehavior I think the habit of telling people that if you agree the Jones Act is bad it logically follows that you should embrace sweeping libertarian conclusions about political economy is a big reason these things don’t get fixed. — PolitiTweet.org

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Cause and effect. Congratulations on a great hire! — PolitiTweet.org

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Somehow Magic Johnson has become a major vendor of elementary school lunches https://t.co/ZD7KRGuHKp — PolitiTweet.org

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@nilocobau @samth Banks have a largely undifferentiated product and the physical branch is an effective marketing tool, especially in areas with lots of new construction or incoming new residents. — PolitiTweet.org

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The lessons learned should focus less on college reform or higher education finance and more on the need for better recession-prevention tools. https://t.co/f1vSFZG1oY https://t.co/Tg97ifti9e — PolitiTweet.org

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Raising tuition really was a better option for governors than cutting Medicaid or K-12 schools. And given the labor market paying the higher tuition made sense for most students. The policy error was elsewhere — in letting the recession get so bad. https://t.co/f1vSFZG1oY — PolitiTweet.org

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If you’re born around 1991 you turn 18 around 2009 and the economy is garbage. Garbage economy raises tuition (states have no money), raises enrollment (outside options are terrible), and depresses earnings after graduation (still-weak labor market) https://t.co/f1vSFZG1oY https://t.co/eFd2nWArJ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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So what went wrong further in the last? Well, not all age cohorts are created equal. A ton of people were born in 1991 +/- a few years — there’s way more people that age than ten years older or younger. https://t.co/f1vSFZG1oY https://t.co/JcdYwxOIK0 — PolitiTweet.org

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First pay attention to the actual recent trend — over the past decade net tuition has fallen (because grants have gotten more generous) even as college enrollment has also fallen. The result is a huge fall in student loans. — PolitiTweet.org