EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

Ezraverse

you lost me

Center-Man: Across the Ezraverse

i listened a bit to klein’s piece with “GROWTH AT ANY COST” pethakoukis which presented an infuriating and astonishingly dishonest mischaracterization of the past 50 years of usa economy. i was like out of my body angry at klein’s refusal/inability to address the many primary factors of the fundamentals of changes in it, which results in a slowing of economic growth vs the 50s and 60s. Very accepting of “yeah it’s just suffocating effects of regulatory government” by my quick listen. shit work. he’s writing a book about it now, wtf it better point at waaaay more than that.

Really? I actually got the sense that Klein was disagreeing with him and asking him questions he couldn’t answer that gave the lie to his thesis.

Our goal should be to get to 1b loyal, dynamic Americans this century. https://t.co/dzildfstLM

— @jason (@Jason) May 28, 2024

We should test them, vet them and embrace them deeply.

Help us, neoliberalism, you’re our only hope

I don’t think Biden should shift his rhetoric to start talking down the economy or whatever it is people are now advising — he should issue regulatory waivers and re-write rules in ways that promote lower costs and higher productivity and stop inflationary debt cancellations.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 29, 2024

When Obama was president, liberal pundits loved to quote Keynes “the boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.”

This is the boom he was talking about! https://t.co/V5x4LwqDxN

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 29, 2024