Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Back at home I have some GBP and MXN in coin form but they are annoying to carry around. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I have paper USD and EUR (the two best fiats) in my wallet as we speak. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonBrownstein Who do you have in mind specifically? — PolitiTweet.org

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we are so based we don’t care what people think it’s dark maga now no scandal can touch us let’s burn the capitol down and apologize for nothing wait oh wait people think we’re creeps and weirdos and criminals and that’s bad how dare those democrats demonize us — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro @janecoaston People say they want authenticity from politicians but it can be taken too far — PolitiTweet.org

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Now if it comes out that people who were getting his grants or leading major EA institutions were telling people it's a really great idea to put your money into cryptocurrency and trade a lot on FTX that would be very damning about them. And I'm sure people are looking into this. — PolitiTweet.org

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Obviously, I will revisit this issue in an article next week but I did try to flag that believing in the sincerity of SBF's EA interests is not necessarily a reason to assume his business activities are benign... https://t.co/of5vwacTn5 https://t.co/n1aSJo8hza — PolitiTweet.org

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I think this piece holds up okay, all things considered — a lot of misconduct about FTX has been revealed but absolutely no evidence that Bankman-Fried's EA funding was a covert lobbying scheme on behalf of cryptocurrency. — PolitiTweet.org

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I used to have an account at Riggs Bank which got caught up in several money-laundering scandals generating fines that pushed the bank toward insolvency. But there was no run, I never once thought about withdrawing my funds (they were insured), and PNC took it over. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHWeissmann That's what it's for! — PolitiTweet.org

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I keep my money in regulated US-based financial institutions with FDIC and SIPC insurance. — PolitiTweet.org

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That means you either end up spending more $$$ to achieve the same goal, or else generating a lower level of service for a given quantity of $$$ than you should have. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a Swiss mantra "organization before electronics before concrete." The American way is to do the opposite of that — instead of solving coordination problems, optimizing operational practices, and changing regulations we build around these issues. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a useful discussion here of why they didn't do it my way — the decision narrowly makes sense if you understand the constraints decision-makers understood themselves to be operating with. But the constraints could have been avoided. https://t.co/Ren4mdNo7b — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of people adopted a learned helplessness attitude to oil prices, but Biden (with some lag) shook it off and recognized that the United States is now the Saudi Arabia of oil and has real ability to impact world prices. https://t.co/15NSCF32DO https://t.co/oHFybL7xNx — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm talking about it! To which I will add that the administration's embrace of a forward-looking contingent supply strategy to use the SPR to stabilize world oil prices is going to be very important over the next few years. https://t.co/15NSCF32DO — PolitiTweet.org

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People were discussing this in a locked thread but it really is silly how much of WMATA Metro Rail is duplicative of existing mainline rail that should have been upgraded to S-Bahn service levels and then complemented with new construction. — PolitiTweet.org

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In general, I’m never really sure how impatient to be about the supply side stuff because Janet Yellen and the whole Biden economic team articulate the right vision — we just need to see as much followthrough on this as possible, and sooner is better. https://t.co/aZJIcBneQT — PolitiTweet.org

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The federal government is doing some good things on the housing supply side but this really only works if it’s backed up by state and local leadership. https://t.co/PF69UVM9CZ — PolitiTweet.org

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We need to focus on immigration for growth not as charity or squeamishness about enforcement. https://t.co/CozPzYepjo — PolitiTweet.org

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For most of the 21st century we had, in Krugman’s evocative phrase, “the return of depression economics.” Now Biden has brought us the return of normal economics (which is good!) and we need to look rigorously at anti-efficiency rules and scrap them. https://t.co/xEv2SGCnVz — PolitiTweet.org

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I like this post-election @paulkrugman column about the merits of the Biden economy — strong labor markets matter! — but I also don’t think complacency is the right response to the midterms. https://t.co/r0213iZEbH — PolitiTweet.org

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The Affordable Care Act’s designers said one of their goals was to “bend the curve” and end the relentless upward march of health spending as a share of GDP and it seems to have worked. (ht @DeanBaker13) https://t.co/nTpaXQp2hV — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s of course more to inflation than gasoline but energy commodity prices are an unusually painful form of inflation because they don’t pass through into higher wages or really result from a strong job market. https://t.co/7nj0VLVUYG — PolitiTweet.org

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Inflation measures rates of change so if gas prices stay flat for six months we’ll be in a world of year on year declines. https://t.co/ufTIMZB2mN — PolitiTweet.org

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Amazing finish. No notes. https://t.co/Zr5r8XJX4P https://t.co/Ozc5HhaF0q — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to sunset every five years while all veteran FBI agents, park rangers, and securities regulators are fired simultaneously vote for Herschel Walker. If that sounds bad, I’d support Warnock. — PolitiTweet.org

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@conorsen They stole 10% of the money and lost the rest? — PolitiTweet.org