Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Especially because 0.75% is such a weird number, easier to explain it as a compromise between a 1% faction and a 0.5% faction. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It would be more fun to have one hawkish dissent and one dovish dissent instead of a unanimous FOMC decision. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin New England town meeting is genuinely the most burdensome form of democracy — PolitiTweet.org

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You don't want to just let the children of the Russian elite have a nice vacation in the west while they duck conscription, but if it is possible to deprive the Russian military of cannon fodder that's good. — PolitiTweet.org

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The idea of a ban on Russian tourists makes a lot of sense to me, but probably also smart to think about pathways for facilitating defection of potential draftees. — PolitiTweet.org

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Alan Dershowitz probably could have ended his Martha's Vineyard shunning by helping out with the Venezuelans. — PolitiTweet.org

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Marist is sampling the college grad share of the Ohio electorate as 5-10 points higher than they've been historically and concluding "this race is closer than you'd think!" Just guessing based on general principles would be better. https://t.co/2bY2mhVi4T — PolitiTweet.org

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My take is that Trafalgar's methods are: (a) Pretty clearly fake (b) Arguably better than most of the media polling that is published — PolitiTweet.org

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@akmattos Xtreme Kerbside delivery — PolitiTweet.org

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[Now conversely, I wish the people who held power in academia would change their minds and decide that pure descriptive work is important and alter the incentives because I think it's actually very important] — PolitiTweet.org

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"Did it in fact get easier or harder to vote in State X?" is, I think, a question that would be considered kind of boring as a political science research problem. These are the kind of questions we journalists need to answer ourselves rather than outsourcing to datasets. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pure descriptive work seems to be relatively low status in social sciences. People do it. But the incentives point in the opposite direction and it usually isn't the most "interesting" part of high fliers' career. By contrast, it's the traditional core of journalism. — PolitiTweet.org

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An interesting change in media over the course of my career has been more interpenetration between academia and journalism, mediated first by blogs and now by twitter. This is mostly change for the better, but I do think it features some bugs related to different values. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not great that people are building big takes out of bad data. — PolitiTweet.org

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The staff needs to let Biden be Biden, he was right!! — PolitiTweet.org

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Guy who thinks all the people fleeing Venezuela is strengthening Maduro’s hand by generating labor scarcity and high wages. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin The case for NGDP targeting — PolitiTweet.org

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idk https://t.co/ZqwwNHIAHk — PolitiTweet.org

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New BAD TAKES out today is all about Queen Elizabeth. I say the British Empire wasn’t all bad and @lkmcgann brings the Irish haterade. https://t.co/4e0mIKeSNZ — PolitiTweet.org

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1. EV transition is absolutely happening 2. For the next 10-20 years stabilizing global oil prices is still going to be important — PolitiTweet.org

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Slow Boring expanded universe —> — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NolanDMcCaskill: .@SenAlexPadilla is now a co-sponsor of the Senate’s Electoral Count Act reform. “This bipartisan bill presents our be… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @1alexhemingway: Yes, housing supply is important. There is no way out of the crisis without addressing the chronic shortage of homes o… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattZeitlin: @DuncanWeldon https://t.co/ozYfnm4jm3 — PolitiTweet.org

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The point of the sanctions is not to deny Russia money, it’s to deny Russia the ability to use money to import the components it needs to field a powerful military force. A rising trade balance is the sanctions working. https://t.co/4FgUCuHeJr https://t.co/laMSPDKMK7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden won New Hampshire and so did Hillary Clinton and Obama won there twice so “she’s a pretty generic democrat” isn’t an obvious winner. But his approval rating is bad, so… — PolitiTweet.org

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I randomly saw a bunch of ads that are running against Maggie Hassan last night and they are much more boring than the stuff in the Discourse — each one is a slight variation on “inflation is high and she votes with Joe Biden a lot.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PiQCommentary: 💡 Slow Boring - Blog by Matthew Yglesias on American politics and public policy Russia's military and economic strateg… — PolitiTweet.org

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Russia had a good thing going selling natural gas to Western Europe. The shutoff gambit once actually used permanently impairs Russia’s ability to make money this way. https://t.co/4FgUCuGGTT https://t.co/QPBpZE4n5v — PolitiTweet.org

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Russia has the ability to become even more extreme in the violence it doles out, but becoming a colony of China is a much worse option than trying to be a well-behaved country integrated into the western economic zone https://t.co/4FgUCuHeJr https://t.co/cPuFTS3Gi4 — PolitiTweet.org