Matthew Zeitlin
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correspondent @heatmap_news matthew at heatmap dot news
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Joined January 2008
I wonder if Elon’s party will be socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
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To be fair the typical Stevenson supporter…
In 1952, liberal intellectuals were *reeling* from the disturbing revelation that the American people were capable of electing a figure as reactionary and backward as Dwight Eisenhower. Mid-century libs had no concept of how bad things could get
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you see this denialism because a lot of people think . 1. china is aggressively pursuing economic development and national power and . 2. that renewables are worthless. so, china having more wind capacity than the rest of the world combined literally does not compute.
Burchett: God put coal in the ground, let's use it… There's a reason as Trump told me that there’s no windmills in China.
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2025: let's go to brighton beach! we can walk on the boardwalk and then go to cafe kashkar! it's so easy, we can just take the subway! . 1905: we must go to the reenactment of the second boer wars
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RT @CtheLala: If you use industrial policy, public enterprises, and derisking to create and sustain an industry, what is the theory by whic….
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RT @CtheLala: Financialization stories imply banning buybacks or instituting capital controls means firms or their investors will be forced….
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RT @CtheLala: The US has a large industrial / value-generating base. If you're gonna argue bits of it (manufacturing) are too small, you ne….
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RT @CtheLala: Capex doesn't happen out of a fixed pot. To the extent relative cashflows signal stuff, it's a priori firm liquidity preferen….
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i think this roughly suggests where the public is on taxes: to the extent we have them, they should be paid by someone else.
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this is already happening but one thing i predict is the complete inversion of helicopter and connected parenting, where upper middle class parents anxiously compete with each other to have the most "free range" kids/least access to cell phones.
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RT @GovKathyHochul: Six months into congestion pricing: Traffic is down and business is up. But that’s not all, the revenue generated by t….
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the important lesson of all of this is that people who applied to college in 2007, 8, 9 suffered more hardship and adversity than any generation since the great depression.
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This pattern when republicans do across the board tax cuts and then Dems only reverse for high income or add new high income taxes will over time make the tax system more progressive while keeping revenue/GDP flat or decline over time.
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You need to be PBSmaxxing.
Great new American Masters documentary on Hannah Arendt that came out last week. Recommended ✅
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The tax credits have been far, far more politically durable than any of the regulatory decarbonization measures Biden or Obama tried: power plant emissions, tailpipe emissions, or higher mileage standards.
I want to dispute this to some extent — . The investment-led approach to climate policy was successful at avoiding political backlash. The problem is Dems lost power too fast to entrench it at all. But the tax credits didn’t meaningfully contribute to Harris’ loss. What did?.
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The most dramatic expansion of Medicaid spending was a now-forgotten episode in the late-1980s / early-1990s.
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Early FDR electoral maps are amazing because he’ll win von Hindenburg County, Wisconsin and Stonewall Jackson County, Tennessee by 60 points but lose his old state senate seat all four times.
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