Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Here’s a good @paulkrugman piece from 2009 about why Buy America rules are stimulative and therefore useful if you have a depressed economy. https://t.co/lLAQrJljT4 — PolitiTweet.org

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The biggest thing liberal states in the northeast and pacific coast can do to promote their values is change land use so our communities can grow and thrive. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 Inflation got worse — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattGrossmann: @whstancil High turnout is unrelated to partisan election outcomes: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattGrossmann: @whstancil The current congressional majority has historically high rates of both party unity & win rates in both chambe… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @haroldpollack: The case for a gas tax increase, by @mattyglesias https://t.co/WrY5yEfWd6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 Which in turn helps progressive policies pass — win-win — PolitiTweet.org

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Forecast calls for relatively cool takes considering the time of year, but watch out for the early afternoon. https://t.co/8tWYMnPJzA — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeDrewWhat @ezraklein That is not how I recall it, especially with regard to schools. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeDrewWhat @ezraklein My man, I was writing in April 2020 about how school closures were bad at a time when no states had reopened. https://t.co/Olu8VD09N8 — PolitiTweet.org

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The refinery capacity bottleneck is fundamentally a free market phenomenon — which doesn’t mean there’s nothing you could do about it. https://t.co/1Yx3kdx6xR https://t.co/dCaYZdOVt8 — PolitiTweet.org

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“Why did conservatives obtaining a large majority on the Supreme Court lead to large changes while Democrats getting a very narrow congressional majority did not?” seems like a question adults should be able to figure out the answer to. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes! — PolitiTweet.org

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@schmangee Good news is if we make better Covid vaccines they may seriously cut down on “normal” colds. — PolitiTweet.org

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In Switzerland there’s a party that’s “socialiste” in French & Italian and “sozialdemokratische” in German — that’s the best explanation of the difference between social democracy and socialism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@schmangee I basically agree but flu viruses aren’t coronaviruses — some common colds are, but influenza is a whole different family. — PolitiTweet.org

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Big advantage the Liberals have in Canada is their more efficient bilingual logo, using the maple leaf to finesse to accent issue. https://t.co/pbkZW2xA11 — PolitiTweet.org

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I haven’t looked it up recently but with inflation running unexpectedly high, the Bitcoin I bought last year as an inflation hedge must be doing great. — PolitiTweet.org

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At the currently available margins and technologies, gas and especially nuclear compete with coal not with renewables. — PolitiTweet.org

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For climate reasons, of course, we want people to transition to EVs. But the constraint here is also on the supply side — nobody needs to convince people to buy EVs, we need to make more batteries. https://t.co/1Yx3kdx6xR https://t.co/KFRUKxv7lA — PolitiTweet.org

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Fundamentally, it is hard for the global economy to recover from the pandemic without an oil recovery. We need measures to reduce demand and measures to increase supply. https://t.co/1Yx3kdx6xR https://t.co/rHHISq5Tq9 — PolitiTweet.org

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I would not advise a candidate for office to say this, but a gas tax increases makes more sense as a response to wartime fuel scarcity than a gas tax holiday — and understanding why is useful for thinking options through. https://t.co/1Yx3kdx6xR — PolitiTweet.org

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@henryolsenEPPC That’s true but voters often don’t get what they want — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PradyuPrasad: How it started. How its going https://t.co/pEePquaDrG — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro That seems pretty bad — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro Related question! Does anyone know why this outbreak is so non-lethal given that the reported IFRs from Africa were pretty high? — PolitiTweet.org

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I feel like in some sense the root cause here is that we have a huge vacant stadium sitting around when we should be using the land to build apartments + retail. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro I can see people not wanting to take it, but shouldn’t they at least allow those who do want it to get the ACAM2000 shot given that it’s plentiful? — PolitiTweet.org

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@robinsonmeyer I would simply not posit equivalence between zero-carbon energy sources and fossil fuels. — PolitiTweet.org

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My "not going to ban contraceptives" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions... — PolitiTweet.org