Ricardo Reis ✓

@R2Rsquared · London, England · joined 18 Nov 2012

AW Phillips Professor of Economics @LSEecon. Colunista @expresso. Director @CFMUK

53 792Followers

271Following

3 042Posts total

228.4KViews on collected posts

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

109.8K20 Mar

28K6 Apr

9.4K7 Apr

5.4K11 May

75.8K15 May

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.29%20 Mar

1.01%6 Apr

1.07%7 Apr

0.90%11 May

0.29%15 May

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes68.1%2 626 in total

Reposts12.3%476 in total

Replies1.0%39 in total

Quotes0.6%24 in total

Bookmarks17.9%691 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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I am late to the debate on whether Europe's economy is behind the US. Many quotes on this tweet by @lugaricano propose looking at health, inequality, happiness surveys, beauty of landscapes, driving around, etc. But there is a *better* way. And economists have used it for 75.8K views · 191 likes · 22 reposts · 8 replies 15 May 2026 · Open on X →

Thursday (1:00 pm ET) there is a new episode of the @ClevelandFed’s Conversations on Central Banking, May 14. This time on "The Case for Central Bank Independence". Free and open to the public at this link: https://t.co/zcjpAYpXU5 5.4K views · 37 likes · 10 reposts · 0 replies 11 May 2026 · Open on X →

Congratulations to @ludwigstraub for a well deserved honor. Read the prize description to learn about the exciting work he and others have been doing. The present and future of macroeconomic research is bright! 9.4K views · 92 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 07 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

** Reducing the Fed's balance sheet ** Ten days ago, I was part of a discussion at @BrookingsInst on how to shrink the Fed's balance sheet with Darrell Duffie and @WenxinDu. I tried to lay out the discussion in terms that, hopefully, clarify it to a broader set of economists. 28K views · 221 likes · 56 reposts · 2 replies 06 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

In 1507-15, the Portuguese crown built the fort of Our Lady of the Conception in Hormuz, to control trade from India and charge hefty tolls to passing ships. From the outset, holding the fort and controlling the Strait of Hormuz required constant fighting with local emirs; by 109.8K views · 2.1K likes · 380 reposts · 28 replies 20 Mar 2026 · Open on X →

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