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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Laffer Curve Revisited

By Matthew Yglesias

Aug 2 2007, 10:32 AM ET Comment

You may recall The Wall Street Journal's July 13 editorial which proved that the Laffer Curve is real if you restrict your attention to corporate tax rates, mis-code Norway, and draw your line wrong. Thanks to Kevin Hassett's efforts to spell this argument out in more detail, Brendan Nyhan was able to look at the exact same data and draw the line correctly:

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If you exclude Norway, who's oil tax revenue shouldn't really be lumped in with corporate income taxes in general (it's more like a royalty), things look even less like the WSJ version of reality.

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