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Klein: Trump administration publicly shook down NYC Mayor Eric Adams
“They shook down Eric Adams. That's my, that's a direct accusation that happened in public. They shook down Eric. They shook down Eric Adams because they could put him in his pocket.”
Ezra Klein: DOGE is a hack-and-slash operation destroying state capacity
“Doge to me is a It would be great if somebody tried it, but I see this as much more of a destruction of state capacity and a hack and slash operation.”
Klein: Democrats tend to subsidize demand while choking supply
“My book Abundance with Derek Thompson is about the tendency Democrats have to subsidize things where they are choking off the supply of the thing they want people to have more of.”
Klein: Subsidized housing in California costs 4.4x Texas rates
“And the cost of creating housing in California market rate is two X in California, what it is in Texas. But when you get into that publicly subsidized housing, where you have all these new standards and rules and regulations being triggered by the addition of …”
Klein: Sound policies do not require constantly shifting defense arguments
“Usually when an idea is good, you don't need people jumping back and forth on it so often, going between these tariffs are a bad idea, but they're a smart negotiating ploy, to these tariffs plus are an actually great idea, and you should all calm down.”
Ezra Klein: Foreign nations will build partnerships to reduce exposure to U.S. power
“They're going to begin to build fortresses and deals and partnerships and approaches that make sure they are less exposed to our ability to wield this power against them in the future.”
Ezra Klein: Too much regulation is precautionary instead of retrospective
“I think too much of our regulation is precautionary, as opposed to being able to let people move quickly, and make decisions in the real world, and then go back and see how they worked out.”
Ezra Klein: Multi-decade corporate CapEx investments require stable trade policy
“You can't do all of these things at once, and it needs to be very stable. If you're going to get companies to do these long-term CapEx investment decisions that take decades to play out.”