Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It me — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@zackbeauchamp Arguably true of its original usage as well — PolitiTweet.org

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@erikbryn Hence my optimism it will reverse. — PolitiTweet.org

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Where’s @linakhanFTC on Facebook Marketplace being a huge sewer of stolen goods? https://t.co/KknOv8wb2S — PolitiTweet.org

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I don’t think it’s that hard to understand why people feel cranky about the economy despite slowing inflation and a strong job market — prices are still rising faster than wages. Gap is narrowing and will hopefully reverse soon but it hasn’t happened yet. https://t.co/HtjqPw4W2E — PolitiTweet.org

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Details on this — employers holding onto more of their seasonal hires than usual is important in a macro-sense, but doesn't generate real-time coverage since it's hard to write articles about things not happening. https://t.co/bMn7AjJslg — PolitiTweet.org

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One reason why it’s possible to have strong January employment despite stories about layoffs is the data is seasonally adjusted and January *always* has high layoffs, so the strong number means “fewer layoffs than in the average January” which is always a high-layoff month. — PolitiTweet.org

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The hawkish pivot in 2015-2016* drove me crazy — the economy is complicated but inflation was still below-target so why bother with any complicated considerations? (* Also the most underrated “why Trump won” factor) — PolitiTweet.org

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The hawkish pivot in 2015-2016 drove me crazy — the economy is complicated by inflation was still below-target so why bother with any complicated considerations? — PolitiTweet.org

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I think if the labor market is strong and inflation is above target, you keep raising interest rates — slowing down the pace so you can keep checking the data was right but both considerations are saying they can go higher. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's very annoying that we don't do better tracking of stuff like "how many people are there?" — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s going to be a certain amount of double-backflip good-news-is-bad-news response to this because it means more interest rate hikes but don’t overthink it — strong employment growth is good and just means the world will survive the negative impact of rate hikes on Elon Musk. — PolitiTweet.org

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As some of us have been saying, lay-off announcements at a handful of newsworthy companies are not representative of the overall situation. https://t.co/Na49MZzgEk — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattGrossmann: Biden's first two years were legislatively productive, but not historically so. The triumphalism underestimates Obama's… — PolitiTweet.org

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@leankitjon Believe me people are ignoring policy developments related to blue collar trades too. People love to ignore vocational education, including the people who like to say we should do more of it. https://t.co/hWsAB82yus https://t.co/7oXsmIoQVn — PolitiTweet.org

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Every highly-educated discourse participant does sporadic hot takes about how there should be more apprenticeships and vocational training but nobody pays attention to the actual ongoing policy developments in this space. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marcscribner: @mattyglesias Sec. 13002 of IIJA created the National Motor Vehicle Per-Mile User Fee Pilot. About two dozen states have… — PolitiTweet.org

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@sictransitglora Separate from EVs we now have hybrid SUVs that are much heavier than conventional sedans but about as fuel efficient. — PolitiTweet.org

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Nobody wants to address this politically (and I don't blame them) but the gas tax is an increasingly non-functional means of securing road funding. https://t.co/eXnKgpojOa https://t.co/oAkF0yLsZB — PolitiTweet.org

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I feel like once upon a time I could've written a good explainer about the benchmark revisions but now I need to read one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@judgeglock Postal is pretty steady during that 90s decline though. https://t.co/CB2jVKW5Jl — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe in the Metaverse this won't happen? https://t.co/ec88P0UAxv — PolitiTweet.org

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Are people just openly selling fake license plates? https://t.co/HrNrzzXzfV — PolitiTweet.org

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@jneeley78 Bill Clinton, Lenin’s true political heir — PolitiTweet.org

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@Conanbatt Spending is up a lot, personnel is a very small part of the federal government’s cost structure — PolitiTweet.org

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Fewer federal employees in 2023 than there were in 1993. https://t.co/Q3zWW4cIT5 — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s a very fierce historiographical debate about how we should view the small spurt of growth from 1880-WWI (I don’t have a very informed view about this but have seen qualified professionals get into really heated arguments about it) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @atrembath: “We are experiencing some downside to living in a society with a great deal of material abundance…people would be pretty unh… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is why we have partisan politics — I think low-income Floridians should have health insurance but Ron DeSantis disagrees and because he’s governor he gets to have his way and they go without. It’s the whole point of politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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The idea that debt reduction achieved exclusively through spending should be the top political priority is like *the* quintessential partisan issue. — PolitiTweet.org