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Matthew Yglesias - Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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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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Express Homebuyers

By Matthew Yglesias

Apr 21 2008, 9:48 AM ET Comment

In a sign of the times, I saw my first ad for Express Homebuyers last night. They promise that instead of your house languishing on the markets for months, they'll make you an offer within seven days of you getting in touch with them. Presumably it's not going to be a very generous offer, but "We realize that sometimes life has you in a bind and selling your home as quickly and painlessly as possible is often the best option."

Of course, for a large segment of people simply walking away from a home and a loan and leaving the question of what to do with the property up to the bank is a more attractive option.

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