Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @ImNotOwned: Roy Cooper can finally retire to NC Mt Rushmore — PolitiTweet.org

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“10 percent of banks have larger unrecognized losses than those at SVB. Nor was SVB the worst capitalized bank, wit… https://t.co/mgB6qyeVcw — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden administration is annoyingly good at not leaking about internal disagreements over judgment calls like the SV… https://t.co/8chTVVKErx — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Politics_Polls: 2024 Pennsylvania Senate Republican Primary: Doug Mastriano 39% David McCormick 21% Kathy Barnette 11% . Head-2-Head:… — PolitiTweet.org

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We now have a situation where the legal basis for guaranteeing SVB’s uninsured deposits is systemic significance but where (thanks to Trump-era policy changes) SVB-scale banks are not regulated as systemically significant. What’s done is done but we should fix that. — PolitiTweet.org

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So the situation has already been resolved the way the VCs wanted, and I think the best thing now would be for them to stop doing defensive tweets. (maybe throw their support behind regulating large regional banks as systemically significant) — PolitiTweet.org

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Ability to do this is constrained by regulations and prudential considerations and thus in some sense related to the bank’s ability to raise money from deposits or elsewhere. But at the margin the lending activity creates money that doesn’t come from anywhere. https://t.co/MupVYNWFrK — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe a clearer example for the modern world of how banks create money is credit card transactions. A sale is made, and your bank pays the seller based on your promise to pay the bank back later. Where did your bank get the money? Nowhere — there’s just more money now. — PolitiTweet.org

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AI demonstrates superior moral reasoning to a large share of twitter users https://t.co/ukUs7kvDGz — PolitiTweet.org

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Can’t believe this guy only got a two on English Lit https://t.co/GWlI6aBhgp — PolitiTweet.org

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Rude https://t.co/BWddTRocqE — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheStalwart I heard ChatGPT got a good score on AP Macro so I asked Bing, but this isn’t very satisfying https://t.co/k26gHHoL4z — PolitiTweet.org

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@shadihamid @Musa_alGharbi @TheAtlantic I agree with this thesis so strongly based on 2-3 studies I’ve already see that I’m not going to make the mistake of reading any more about it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheStalwart It’s objectively hard to do? — PolitiTweet.org

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Flashback to 2003: My parents’ friends: You’re majoring in philosophy? Me: Sure, twenty years from now the only white collar work left for humans to do will be to debate functionalism and the “hard problem” of consciousness. It’s either philosophy or plumbing. — PolitiTweet.org

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English majors get the last laugh as GPT-4 crushes every exam except AP English Language and AP English Lit https://t.co/W0Nx3akuyh https://t.co/1n0eqpVvI7 — PolitiTweet.org

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I wish people would actually just say “we want our population and economy to stagnate because change is bad” rather than do this dance. — PolitiTweet.org

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The old “let’s set a target for housing growth while making it illegal to add housing” strategy. What could go wrong? — PolitiTweet.org

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Check out my SoundCloud https://t.co/TLj4C4mVH3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I don’t know why that fake Porsche has bad tags — laziness? A desire to evade speed enforcement cameras? An aspiration to do drive-by shootings with impunity? But ticketing & booting cars that don’t have legit tags helps with many problems. — PolitiTweet.org

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There was a shooting in my neighborhood yesterday and the police, seeking the shooter, released this photograph of the criminal’s car and its license plates. Having cars be properly identifiable is important. — PolitiTweet.org

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I just go about my daily business and report parking violations through the DC311 app as requested by the city. It seems sane and pro-social and I think it’s weird that people get mad about it. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the general issue for progressives — it’s specifically *public* facilities like subways and parks and libraries that require active and effective police to work. Absent policing, people can and will retreat to defensible private spaces. https://t.co/84fo2oKstn — PolitiTweet.org

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I saw this weird poster the other day arguing that good transportation, not policing, is the real key to public safety. But per @racheluranga’s piece today it’s the opposite — people won’t ride transit if they don’t feel safe. https://t.co/asZWz1PZFS https://t.co/gimn6lqdCt — PolitiTweet.org

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@RichardHanania That’s only true if you follow the convention of arbitrarily pretending that the conservative press doesn’t exist — there’s just tons of media in America, all of it overwhelmingly negative. — PolitiTweet.org

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2020! Also not a Porsche https://t.co/B0YSPnWnQ2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@RoryBBellows_ @JoshBunchOfNums I’m not sure what argument you’re trying to have or with whom. — PolitiTweet.org

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Part I one ran last week, Part II on the rise and fall of the national obsession with the Achievement Gap will run on Thursday. Part III will be about charter schools. https://t.co/GUBUEqCQRP — PolitiTweet.org

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This will be I think Part IV or V of the “Strange Death of Education Reform” series on Slow Boring — Obama sunk a ton of political capital into these reforms and it didn’t do much. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good news on inflation for the M2 Believers (not me tho) https://t.co/ticYbMxUpt — PolitiTweet.org