Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I support the current thing (my kid’s second grade soccer team). — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Here’s why the power outages in Puerto Rico show I’m right about this other basically unrelated dispute that just happens to involve electricity. (1/27) — PolitiTweet.org

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@PatrickIber @delong I was actually just thinking that Brad’s book is a lot less Whiggish than some of the others I’ve read in this genre. — PolitiTweet.org

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@epkaufm Well exactly — more skilled immigrants would boost productivity and growth and make even more people want to come here. The most reliable strategy to stop immigration would be to deliberately wreck the economy (bad idea though imo). — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LizaBReed: Great piece by @SashaMackler! "Electric transmission lines are a core backbone of a clean energy economy and the poster chi… — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow. Mask off. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Last1OfTheBest @EdAsante77 No! Yglesias thinks we should try to prevent border crossings. https://t.co/z3FpRoH7uu — PolitiTweet.org

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Good book and I think a lot of broad parallels with urban housing politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, Trump took a hammer to skilled immigration. https://t.co/Dmfojl6ZW3 https://t.co/FHJXeTgrxt — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree with this, but it's also hard not to see that 90% of the fighting in the United States is about "the border" and asylum claims not about the allocation of visas. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's no perfect system, but to extent that we think about reform we need to think in terms of matching our institutions to the realities of a highly nationalized media. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of my hottest takes is that the Reagan growth spurt was basically just second-wave feminism. https://t.co/aZJIcBmH1l https://t.co/232ebEmHrB — PolitiTweet.org

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You would not infer from looking at this chart that Ronald Reagan broke the back of the postwar economic consensus and inaugurated a new era of small government ideological hegemony. https://t.co/rZSlLAa6bs — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnHCochrane @drfarls It might well be the case that a system that selected for good teachers would end up hiring excellent researchers, but it’s still odd that the selection system places ~zero explicit weight on teaching — PolitiTweet.org

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@StefanFSchubert Still seems pretty high — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JamesFallows: A truly central point in Americans' understanding about national life. They feel much more hopeful about the part of the… — PolitiTweet.org

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Which is not a knock on Singapore per se, urbanization is great! I'm the One Billion Americans guy. But I think the main lesson is that normal rich countries underinvest in metropolitan growth. — PolitiTweet.org

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Singapore is obviously a great development success story but I also think kinda overrated in these comparisons because it's a city-state. The Ile-de-France is way richer than the France average — same for London, the Bay Area, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is why we need open borders and unilateral free trade, but we should require that takes be manufactured domestically by licensed take-slingers with a master's degree in journalism and 1,500 hours of practice posting (current practitioners exempted of course). — PolitiTweet.org

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At any rate, that's why I'm for open borders and unilateral free trade except with a high protective tariff against dangerous foreign takes. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is where 90% of immigration economics conversations run off the rails. In a non-migration context it's uncontroversial to observe that limiting entry into a field does help incumbents in that field, but if you restrict entry into every field you get poorer not richer. — PolitiTweet.org

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But Sweden has a higher employment-population ratio than the USA — PolitiTweet.org

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Some people can get rich by cartelizing a sector of the economy (tariffs on imported softwood lumber, onerous licensing for pilots, ban manufactured housing from certain neighborhoods) but it certainly doesn't follow that a society can get rich by cartelizing everything. — PolitiTweet.org

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@drfarls It's honestly a very strange system. — PolitiTweet.org

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The funny responses here are the people explaining to me that it's wrong to give Biden credit for this since it's really all thanks to the SPR drawdown. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeremyRedfernFL What's the relationship between NYC's "sanctuary" policies and the asylum-seeker issue in your view? — PolitiTweet.org

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For the sake of the discourse they need to put Avatar on a widely used streaming service so we can all rewatch and do takes. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @samthielman: That’s right, snowflake, I’m a red-meat-eating coal-rolling manly MAGA man. My two biggest issues? I would have to say wom… — PolitiTweet.org

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The one thing Trump really got right was that Star Trek > Star Wars. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nbeaudrot: I think they should run ads about lowering prescription drug costs, supporting abortion rights, and attacking Republicans fo… — PolitiTweet.org