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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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More Romney Charts

By Matthew Yglesias

Oct 24 2007, 11:56 AM ET Comment

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It's been argued to me that the Reagan Zone of Economic Freedom isn't even the dumbest Reagan-related slide in that Romney slide show. Here we have a chart of the historical determinants of economic progress in America. There turn out to have been only three of them -- the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the GATT agreement, and the election of Ronald Reagan.

There's so much wrong with this chart that I hardly know where to begin, but for starters though Smoot-Hawley was surely a mistake are we really supposed to believe it was the sole cause of the Great Depression?

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