Justin Wolfers ✓
@JustinWolfers · Ann Arbor, MI · joined 01 Jul 2011
Prof @UMichEcon & @FordSchool | Fellow @BrookingsInst | Intro Econ textbook author | https://t.co/p3ziw22KMT | https://t.co/vvrskX2z0e
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US budget deficit this year: ~6% of GDP. Outside of wars or recessions, that's the highest in the postwar era.
We're borrowing at emergency-level scale with no emergency and no political will to change course. Bond markets have noticed. Voters haven't yet. https://t.co/1fTPpwF
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August added 162,000 jobs, way above forecasts of 50-60,000.
But the composition tells a different story than the headline. New jobs are mostly all in healthcare or social assistance. Other sectors suffered.
https://t.co/I8GmHIndQG
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The jobs numbers look legit. Hold the conspiracy theories.
Plenty to worry about in this economy still. But these statistics are real, and they're coming from serious statisticians. https://t.co/BXGwW80xCH
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The U.S. got great jobs numbers this morning and the President posted through it in such an absolutely bonkers way that I'm actually now MORE worried about our economic future.
(See my earlier posts if you need the deets.)
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@JustinWolfers However dumb you think @realDonaldTrump is, he is in fact dumber.
With a B.
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@JustinWolfers @MeidasTouch And that’s, Lords and ladies, is how you bankrupt a casino.
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@JustinWolfers Australia likewise has the 2005 Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA). Doesn't stop Trump's big pharma backers from seeking to meddle in our gold standard Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to raise the price of our medicines. And try to sell us i
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Scott Bessent threatened Iran, then in the same breath explained he wasn't going to follow through because he didn't want to blow up the global financial system.
That's not brinksmanship, that's announcing your bluff before anyone calls it. Markets are pretty good at reading h
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There's a lotta talk about rising bond yields. Lemme platypus-splain what's going on, and whether you should worry.
https://t.co/Y06yauqAq3
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Rising bond yields aren't a crisis. Nothing here looks disorderly, nothing says big trouble is coming tomorrow.
But it will still touch your life. That can look like higher rates on mortgages, car loans, student loans.
Not good, but not catastrophic https://t.co/VjIkkkWKEx
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@JustinWolfers That is why no one trusts the idiot president about anything. He is a serial liar and con man. But hey, had a “reality” (far from it) tv show so we elected him. And then he attacked the capital. So we elected him again
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@JustinWolfers You're correct that dairy is a pain point in Canada but ALSO (h/t @Glen4Climate) "Imports are allowed in significant negotiated quantities at low or zero tariffs; the very high tariffs people hear about generally apply only after those agreed import quotas have bee
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The idea that America faced towering tariff walls abroad just isn't supported by the numbers. It hasn't been true for decades.
Canada and Mexico traded with the US duty-free under USMCA, a deal Trump himself negotiated. Korea did the same under KORUS. The EU and China https://
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Latest episode of "Off the Clock," with @svaneksmith dives into the week that was.
What did we hear from Silent Kevin, how can we deal with Angry Canada, is Scott Bravado's heart really in Operation Economic Outcast? Plus, the economics of Dolly Parton.
https://t.co/VejDaaWFyu
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@JustinWolfers @PlatypusEcon Go Justin go! Platypi of the world, unite!
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@PlatypusEcon If economics has ever felt out of reach, or out of step, or out of fashion — this is for you.
Watch, listen, read — whichever screen you're on. I'd love to have you along.
Subscribe at https://t.co/Y5lH1sJKH6.
Let's get curious. Together.
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@PlatypusEcon What you'll get:
📺 YouTube — what's actually going on in the economy
✍️ Substack — short essays, the news through an economist's lens
🎙️ A podcast — thinking out loud, together, in an Aussie accent
Start here: https://t.co/9lhdG8oUWW
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@PlatypusEcon The platypus has a sixth sense — it picks up signals invisible to everyone else.
That's what good economics gives you.
The promise: See clearly in murky waters. https://t.co/wHsDlaTzS6
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@PlatypusEcon Why "platypus"?
The British thought it was a hoax. A mammal that lays eggs, swims with its eyes closed, hunts by sensing electrical fields.
It defies the categories. So does economics, when done right. https://t.co/p2mBW48VAm
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@PlatypusEcon Teaching economics is what I know best — and what I most believe can make people's lives, and the world, better.
A way of seeing the world more clearly. A salve for news that makes you anxious. A tool you'll use every day. And — once it clicks — fun.
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Announcing: @PlatypusEcon — a Substack, YouTube channel, and podcast built around one idea: Economics is one of the most useful, surprising, and weirdly beautiful subjects in the world.
It belongs to everyone — not just the people who happened to take it in college. 🧵 https://t
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Against accounts of the same size
15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views12 112this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %2.73%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %4.92%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 12 112 | 5 983 | 2.02× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 2.73% | 1.49% | 1.83× |
| Engagement rate | 4.92% | 0.93% | 5.30× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
21.7K2 Sep
291
195
10.8K
12.1K
15.7K
923 Sep
20.2K4 Sep
6.7K
13.7K
31.6K
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9.5K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
6.59%2 Sep
5.50%
6.15%
3.09%
0.64%
5.27%
11.96%3 Sep
4.93%4 Sep
5.89%
3.66%
2.16%
2.87%
3.10%
5.58%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes76.2%7 099 in total
Reposts15.4%1 437 in total
Replies2.1%198 in total
Quotes0.5%49 in total
Bookmarks5.7%535 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.
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