Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Almost as if blowing up the JCPOA was a mistake…. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@swinshi Is the increase in market incomes wages or participation or hours worked? (Or a combination) — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing I wonder about these apps is shouldn’t there be an effort to make the available information more credible? It’s not in anyone’s interest to be candid but the ecology as a whole would be much more useful if it were. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gelliottmorris @kwcollins You can also see from how the NRCC allocated money in 2020 that they genuinely underestimated their prospects. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Eugene_Scott It is a lot, though much rarer than it used to be — especially for native-born people. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's also a bit of a paradox: Today's Americans are better-educated than ever, but we've also switched from being the best-educated country in the world to being pretty average for a rich country. So some see increased emphasis on education while others see a decline. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think people don't realize this, but through the 1960s most Americans hadn't finished high school. That's the lagged impact of a huge expansion of high school in the first half of the 20th century — I sincerely don't know what the people on the losing side of that argued? https://t.co/sMmzSpzSa4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Something I'd be interested in learning more about if anyone better-versed in history has recommendations is what were the debates like during the High School Movement era? I assume there were people who had the take that universal high school was unrealistic or pointless. — PolitiTweet.org

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Every graduate of a selective college I know has this take. Meanwhile, my dad always says he wishes he'd gone to college. So idk. — PolitiTweet.org

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Spot rent inflation is higher than average rent inflation, but spot rents are disinflating fast while average rents continue to rise. The Fed should pivot if these lines cross, but I'm worried they won't. https://t.co/FegHW0ydjw https://t.co/5W2Pf8ZPJM — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree with "on pace to be rising too fast" — surprised Adam doesn't mention the differential between spot rents and average rents in this regard. — PolitiTweet.org

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Is there a movement in Westeros to ban Moon Tea? — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 @Nate_Cohn I think if faced with the choice “assume the problem was due to the pandemic and has now been fixed” vs “assume we need to make some difficult and potentially expensive changes” you can see why they are opting the roll the dice again. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @voxdotcom: Is talk about reparations “counterproductive”? This Marxist scholar thinks so. https://t.co/Nny8KpAXOg — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bfurnas: https://t.co/RJeQwxo5nx — PolitiTweet.org

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@gelliottmorris @donmoyn In particular, given the skewed maps Wisconsin Dems are in a very difficult situation and could really use accurate information about local public opinion. — PolitiTweet.org

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Which is just to say that the polls aren’t biased because pollsters are biased, it’s just hard to do accurate polling these days and the incentives for accuracy aren’t that strong. — PolitiTweet.org

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Okay good @Nate_Cohn said it — nobody seems to have fixed the giant polling errors from 2020. I know some people are heartened that the GOP internal polls seem in line with the public media ones, but that was true two years ago too. https://t.co/tQMGK3QaXQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@conorsen Guy who’s worried falling gas prices are inflationary — PolitiTweet.org

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@dsquareddigest @yorksranter @stianwestlake I get that this is satire but that’s exactly right. There should be less prescriptive planning and more general flexibility to build. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you are one of the 48 percent of Republicans who believes the federal government will confiscate citizens’ firearms in the next ten years and would like to make a wager, please get in touch — this strikes me as very unlikely. https://t.co/pj7uhej38H — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, Britain is *very* densely populated — much denser than America would be if we tripled our population — but their tiny very expensive houses are driven by bad planning rules (nothing is by right!) not objective land scarcity. https://t.co/s0hrIUCe2R — PolitiTweet.org

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If the president of the United States is repeatedly giving your orders you regard as illegal, unconscionable, or both I think there are real dilemmas regarding exactly what the best course of action is. But “save it for the book” can’t possibly be the right answer. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m still angry the NYT assigned a British guy to review One Billion Americans — of course @felixsalmon wants to keep us weak and tax our tea. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheZvi Does “more profitable” mean higher profits or higher profit margins? — PolitiTweet.org

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I like that Sweden has both a Center Party and a Moderate Party. Very chill. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AGKD123 Well you should bike over and see if the map is accurate … 😬 — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course it is also Trump’s unique genius to keep multiple scandals in the air simultaneously such that they tend to crowd each other out in terms of coverage. — PolitiTweet.org

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We’ve seen time and again that bad outcomes were averted during Trump’s term because many of his appointees refused to carry out some his directions. But just counting on that to hold through a second term seems awfully risky. — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s so much to choose from in the world of Trump scandals that one hardly needs to pick, but these concerted efforts to pervert the core institutions of the legal system seem like a bigger deal to me that mishandling classified information. — PolitiTweet.org