Matt Yglegias Admits A Wrong

Matt Yglegias is a well known commentator who has written for many newspapers and journals and was a co founder of Vox. He writes on politics and economics. He is perhaps most well known for a column in 2013 where he defended the current practice of different countries having vastly different safety and environmental standards. He clarified the column several times but stood by the basic points.

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