Gene Epstein ✓

@GeneSohoForum · Manhattan, NY · joined 14 Dec 2017

Director and Moderator of @TheSohoForum, presented by @Reason. Former Economics & Books Editor at Barron's.

21 677Followers

816Following

20 787Posts total

18.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views617this account3 644median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.85%this account11.83%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.16%this account1.36%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	617	3 644	0.17×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.85%	11.83%	0.24×
Engagement rate	1.16%	1.36%	0.85×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

9.3K1 Sep

542

7662 Sep

437

5.3K

4303 Sep

682

617

594

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.81%1 Sep

0.74%

1.57%2 Sep

0.00%

4.30%

1.16%3 Sep

4.25%

0.32%

0.67%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.36%.

What the audience does

Likes71.4%457 in total

Reposts16.9%108 in total

Replies10.3%66 in total

Quotes1.1%7 in total

Bookmarks0.3%2 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

The grocery stores in Japan will take your Yen just as the grocery stores in the US will take your dollars. If you have dollars and you’re in Japan, you’ll buy Yen with those dollars & if you have Yen and you’re in the US you’ll buy dollars with those Yen. 594 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @GeneSohoForum @AusMMT The grocery store won't take your yen because they can't pay their taxes in yen 617 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Paying taxes "creates demand for the currency" as one of its "three main purposes"? By the same logic, paying for necessities like food, clothing, shelter & transportation also creates demand for the currency, so we can surely do without taxes to create demand for the currenc 682 views · 24 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 @RogerOnStuff, can't we BOTH agree on the pejorative "cRapitalism"--a contraction of crony capitalism: the unholy alliance between business & gov't that misallocates, to the detriment of human flourishing? 430 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 The Purpose of Taxes: Why do we pay taxes? It's not to "fund" government spending. Taxes serve three main purposes: 1. They create demand for the currency. 2. They allow the government to manage inflation by reducing private spending power. 3. They can be used to 5.3K views · 128 likes · 56 reposts · 41 replies 02 Sep 2026 @GeneSohoForum @cafreiman More reaction than elaboration: Socialist: Efficient production and allocation of capital is so important to human flourishing that the bourgeoisie have adopted our pejorative "capitalism" as their good thing. We need to invent another pejorative! 437 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Anti-capitalists should be inspired to elaborate on passages like these in The Communist Manifesto! "The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce 100 years, has created more massive & more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of 766 views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 Tx for Wed Sept 9 Soho Forum debate: @StephenMoore the affirmative, @scottlincicome the negative: "As a means of gaining leverage in economic & political relations with foreign governments, Trump's tariff policies have brought net benefits." Moderator: Me. 542 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 This is far from an original observation, but perhaps the main mistake made by anti-capitalists is to simply take the supply of goods and services as given and focus entirely on how to divide them up rather than seriously investigate how they get produced. This phenomenon is 9.3K views · 289 likes · 49 reposts · 13 replies 01 Sep 2026