Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 09, 2021 and December 11, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “Matthew Yglesias described this method in What’s All the Land in America worth? in 2013”; “Matthew Yglesias for his land value estimation method”. It most often appears alongside Albouy, Alexandra Elbakyan, Astral Codex Ten.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: December 09, 2021
  • Last seen: December 11, 2021

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December 09, 2021 · Original source
The "Federal Reserve" line is my own construction. Matthew Yglesias described this method in What's All the Land in America worth? in 2013, arriving at $15 trillion. In this method, you look at the balance sheets on the Federal Reserve's annual flow of funds report and subtract the replacement values of all structures from the total value of real estate holdings. There's good reason to believe this method produces estimates that are too low.