Matthew Yglesias Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Matthew Yglesias:
I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.
~Matthew Yglesias
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I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
~Matthew Yglesias
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I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.
~Matthew Yglesias
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The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.
~Matthew Yglesias
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A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.
~Matthew Yglesias
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Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.
~Matthew Yglesias
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The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.
~Matthew Yglesias
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It's rare that you have a policy issue that can be solved by throwing more money at the problem, but the technology to make bus service more frequent and equip buses with GPS systems that provide real-time schedule updates to bus stops exists and operates in many parts of the world. We should be installing it in our major cities.
~Matthew Yglesias
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