George Selgin

@GeorgeSelgin · Granada, Spain · joined 26 Jul 2011

Money and banking fallacy demolition expert. I promise not to waste our time by saying things you expect me to say.

31 250Followers

660Following

64 288Posts total

10.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 581this account1 540median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.06%this account4.74%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.17%this account1.87%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 581	1 540	1.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.06%	4.74%	1.07×
Engagement rate	1.17%	1.87%	0.63×

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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

2.2K4 Sep

2.3K

1.6K

1.5K5 Sep

1.1K

1.5K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.14%4 Sep

0.56%

1.04%

1.92%5 Sep

1.31%

1.64%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.87%.

What the audience does

Likes71.7%81 in total

Reposts13.3%15 in total

Replies4.4%5 in total

Quotes0.9%1 in total

Bookmarks9.7%11 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

🧵W/ all due resoect to Ms. Schnabel, the problems of the US free banking era had nothing to do with the lack of a credit-risk free central bank reserve medium. Banks back then, in the U.S. and elsewhere, settled in specie, a medium that was itself perfectly free of credit risk. 1.5K views · 18 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 05 Sep 2026 The 60% figure is a gross exaggeration: it would have to refer to notes of a bank known to have failed. By the onset of the Civil War, the modal discount in NYC or Chicago on notes of operating northern banks was <1%. 1.1K views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 Like Rasputin, conventional wisdom about the United State’s misnamed “free banking era” dies hard. It was not banks’ freedom, but governments’ interference with it, that undermined that era’s monetary architecture. Get the real story here: https://t.co/rSwFepMGy6 1.5K views · 21 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 There isn’t a particle of evidence supporting the commonplace claim that England’s 17th-century goldsmiths illicitly lent coin they were supposed to store. On the contrary: the hoary tale is almost certainly false.* 1.6K views · 14 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 File under: bad ways to try and get people to take the Armenian genocide seriously. 2.3K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @OnePunchRey Did goldsmiths "expose" gold when they started issuing paper receipts and running fractional reserve banking? No—they just exploited people who surrendered custody. Saylor didn't "expose" Bitcoin. No base-layer bearer asset—whether gold, land, or Bitcoin—can stop a 2.2K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026