Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@StefanFSchubert @nicolas_sommet I’ve seen it cited frequently by people who are criticizing it exactly in the spirit of this thread — I think it’s commonly discussed because it was in an Obama speech. — PolitiTweet.org

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I would say that most other indicators (the job market especially) are more consistent with the GDI story of a growth slowdown than of the GDP story where output supposedly contracted even while all these people got new jobs. — PolitiTweet.org

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The best part about GDP/GDI divergence is that by definition they are equal. https://t.co/OLiAAJtp9W — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianbeutler Why don’t you think they test that? — PolitiTweet.org

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@alon_levy I think you’re not actually paying attention to what the American policy issues I’m mentioning here are and are detailing by discussing some different debates in Germany that I have no interest in or opinion about. Going to mute this thread. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jenniferdoleac: Coming in September: ✨ Responsible Prosecution ✨ A @NiskanenCenter webinar series hosted by me 🤓. Hear short, acces… — PolitiTweet.org

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Net price at public four-year colleges peaked ten years ago and has been falling. https://t.co/jIS4S3ZJGx — PolitiTweet.org

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Common sense says that deficit spending has hidden costs to the people who don’t get the money. Twenty years of depressed labor markets taught people that common sense isn’t always right. But back at full employment, common sense is true again! https://t.co/hnvfTBXYhi — PolitiTweet.org

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@DemocraticLuntz O’Malley would’ve won — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattGrossmann: College tuition is now growing at less than the rate of inflation (I see a lot fewer stories) & student aid is growing.… — PolitiTweet.org

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@George_A_Callas @JaredWalczak There’s no “rule.” But yes people should be more charitable in general and receiving a windfall that you are publicly saying you don’t need is a good time to reflect on that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StefanFSchubert Sweden has better consumer brands and pop music. — PolitiTweet.org

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Make more shit in America should mean a war on rent-seeking and anti-competitive behavior, not new rounds of protectionist trade policy https://t.co/hnvfTBFP3a https://t.co/MNE12Gs3aX — PolitiTweet.org

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Everything’s Better In Switzerland https://t.co/oiPPvO9Otq — PolitiTweet.org

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Get your pro science, pro choice, pro wrestling t-shirts! — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin I’m losing it over this. — PolitiTweet.org

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This was me at the New Japan Pro Wrestling show over on Congress Heights back in May. — PolitiTweet.org

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Part of the curriculum is going to be intensive study of The Great Posts from @jholbo1 on Donner Party Conservatism to @tylercowen inquiring about epidemiologists’ GRE scores. We’ll also look at influential proto-posters like Wittgenstein and Nietszche. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sometimes I wonder if I should start a blogging trade school and compete with Columbia. I’m out here paying interns and they’re charging nearly $8k per month. https://t.co/t9OQG0INch — PolitiTweet.org

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The one thing everyone with a bachelor’s degree agrees on is that college isn’t for everyone and we should really be focusing more on vocational ed, trade schools, and apprenticeships but then the stuff that happens doesn’t get much coverage or discourse. https://t.co/2lIIAkEHa1 — PolitiTweet.org

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@NickTimiraos 62.5 bps? — PolitiTweet.org

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If we want to see economic growth over the next two years it’s going to have to come from supply-side reforms and that means a return to boring scrupulousness about economics. https://t.co/hnvfTBXYhi https://t.co/QWlPYDV2dO — PolitiTweet.org

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But I don’t think there’s much juice left in that orange. Once you’ve obtained full employment, everything you do in terms of spending or regulation involves hard tradeoffs and getting the technical analysis correct is very important. https://t.co/hnvfTBXYhi — PolitiTweet.org

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This has brought many successes — robust full employment, a climate bill that ditched pricing, but also lots of bipartisan dealmaking. “Less technocracy, more politics” has had some real upsides. https://t.co/hnvfTBFP3a — PolitiTweet.org

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The signature move of the Biden administration from ARP through debt forgiveness has been an approach to governing that’s less technocratic and features less influence of economists and mainstream economics than we saw from Obama or Clinton. https://t.co/hnvfTBXYhi — PolitiTweet.org

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Lots of people are starting college this fall but they do so with much better outside options than the people who were starting ten years ago. That brings some fundamental discipline to the system. — PolitiTweet.org

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On some level I think the best solution to the college cost problem is the one we have right now — a labor market where employees are happy to give entry level jobs to teenagers with no experience. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ebwhamilton: Good stuff. My #1 recommendation for making ADUs easier to build in DC is allow basement ADUs to have lower than 7’ ceilin… — PolitiTweet.org

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The best-testing messaging on inflation are all so insane. — PolitiTweet.org