Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

So wait why was PPP structured as "loans" that got "forgiven" rather than as grants? I don't remember why they did that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ModeledBehavior @JHWeissmann @M_C_Klein tbh I thought the original was very overrated — PolitiTweet.org

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They're trying to make it seem like a thrilling horror movie? — PolitiTweet.org

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@BriannaWu @crampell Yes. — PolitiTweet.org

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Guy who’s mad because student loan forgiveness is going to push up his owner’s equivalent rent. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHWeissmann @ModeledBehavior @M_C_Klein Since it’s NPR it specifically seems like a bad adaptation of the “Giant Pool of Money” episode of This American Life. https://t.co/z2zJ37CBoK — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jakefromthest8s: @WhiteHouse You’ve met Dark Brandon. Say hello to The Dark House. https://t.co/2m1fQpKse5 — PolitiTweet.org

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It is true that you would normally expect a candidate with no political experience to talk more about his military service. — PolitiTweet.org

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@crampell Blocking is good! It helps enforce and spread better norms of behavior. Just be generous with un-blocking if someone apologizes. — PolitiTweet.org

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I was wondering who would possibly go this hard and then at the end you see it's some Armenian group — there's always an angle! — PolitiTweet.org

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Under Biden the CDC continued to screw up and people (appropriately) felt this reflected poorly on Biden and he (appropriately) is pushing for changes at the CDC. That’s how it’s supposed to work. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of Trump’s most destructive moves was repeatedly triangulating against the executive branch rather than fixing problems. You’d hear “can’t blame Trump for that, it was the CDC that screwed up!” — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile this myth keeps coming around but philosophy majors make decent money!!! — PolitiTweet.org

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These days a lot of people walk around with outdated ideas about what happens in college — this is where the vocational training happens, it’s not just about being sexually abused while your wrestling coach turns a blind eye. https://t.co/GR3NS2xalQ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @darth: he is lying — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mnolangray: The "starter home" is dead and a mix of exclusionary zoning and tightened lending standards killed it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NeverSassyLaura: @mattyglesias Hotter take: Land Use Town vs Gown fights have kept top colleges from being able to grow by adding more… — PolitiTweet.org

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Much more common now to hear arguments where conservatives demand safe spaces and leftists insist on the importance of confronting people with challenging material — there’s been a complete reversal. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alon_levy: This is terrible. Ukraine has lower metro construction costs than Britain, it should be advising Britain and not the other w… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZeeshanAleem I think the question of whether or not debt forgiveness is unfair to the folks who didn't get the money hinges pretty crucially on whether or not it's true that they are harmed economically by debt forgiveness. — PolitiTweet.org

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Government spending on higher education as a share of GDP fluctuates a bit with the business cycle but it's basically flat over the past 50 years. The higher tuition revenue is additive to the 1972 base. https://t.co/XQLZ82elyJ — PolitiTweet.org

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At any rate, I am all for cutting "administrative bloat" but the way this works in the real world is that you need to name specific things that you want to cut and convince people that those specific things are worth cutting. — PolitiTweet.org

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People are arguing about debt relief and inflation in 2022, but if you went back in time to 2010 and gave the economy a huge fiscal boost that would have done a lot of good — including for people who didn't directly get money. — PolitiTweet.org

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My general sense is that both the left and the right are too down on American higher education. I think people mostly have a good time in school and mostly learn some good stuff. The Millennial Student Debt Catastrophe is we had a huge recession. https://t.co/zum2brIWkc — PolitiTweet.org

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Some of the stuff that wasn't there in 1972 you could maybe get rid of (do schools need these DEI teams?) but some of it you couldn't — nobody would want to go to a college with no wifi or whatever. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a hot take: One main reasons that college tuition is higher in 2022 than it was in 1972 is that over a 50-year time span the level of per student spending increased because people expect a lot more of contemporary colleges and that's totally reasonable on both counts. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JakeAnbinder @rortybomb @_TimBarker Yeah, I don't think this does a lot to explain why tuition rose at the University of Arkansas — across a 40-year time horizon all kinds of schools started spending a lot more money on various things and charging the customers more is a pretty obvious way to get money. — PolitiTweet.org

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@IDoTheThinking Do they "refuse to understand" or is it contrary to their business model? — PolitiTweet.org

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@RyanRadia @wanyeburkett Even if the trains were much faster it's hard to see a world where you'd go from Ohio to Maine that way. — PolitiTweet.org

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Salting barista at my local Starbucks complimented me on my Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant hat. Never forget that anti-nuclear politics is union-busting! https://t.co/EZA7NrYQvm — PolitiTweet.org