Simon Nixon ✓

@Simon_Nixon · London · joined 07 Sep 2010

Wealth of Nations newsletter on Substack. European political economy and geoeconomics. Previously chief Europe commentator @WSJ, chief leader writer @thetimes

43 495Followers

1 815Following

36 591Posts total

383.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views7 755this account2 259median for 10K–100K

Reach, %17.83%this account6.80%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.70%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	7 755	2 259	3.43×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	17.83%	6.80%	2.62×
Engagement rate	0.70%	1.52%	0.46×

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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

5K9 Aug

98.1K31 Aug

50.9K1 Sep

7.8K

213.4K2 Sep

2.9K

5.5K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.12%9 Aug

0.92%31 Aug

0.40%1 Sep

0.36%

0.70%2 Sep

0.72%

1.17%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes69.7%1 926 in total

Reposts13.5%373 in total

Replies13.8%381 in total

Quotes1.5%41 in total

Bookmarks1.6%44 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

So it seems the one piece of substantive business to come out of the G20 is that America and Russia have decided to blame Ukraine for the high oil prices that are harming the Republicans chances in the mid-terms. Does not bode well for what come next… 5.5K views · 48 likes · 15 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 The last time Trump urged Iranians to stand up and fight, 30,000 of them died. This time he’s not even promising to help… 2.9K views · 14 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported. I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement. I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing. They are 213.4K views · 969 likes · 182 reposts · 313 replies 02 Sep 2026 Amazing he said this straight to Putin’s face 🤷‍♂️ 7.8K views · 22 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 Iran's President Pezeshkian to Putin: Great powers do not have the right, simply because they possess power, to commit aggression without regard for international frameworks and international law. The aggression carried out by the United States against Iran had no legal basis, 50.9K views · 157 likes · 26 reposts · 12 replies 01 Sep 2026 Scott Bessent’s ongoing self-reveal as a malevolent arsehole is becoming a threat to global financial stability in its own right. When the next crisis hits - perhaps due to his own arrogance and incompetence - what credibility will he have left to reassure the markets? 98.1K views · 713 likes · 139 reposts · 49 replies 31 Aug 2026 New Ways to Lose - latest edition of Wealth of Nations on why Trump won’t learn from his foreign failures plus what Europeans should learn from Bessent’s Yen intervention https://t.co/gVapj3y7L6 https://t.co/l4z5M1sLt8 5K views · 3 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 09 Aug 2026