Ben Carlson ✓
@awealthofcs · Grand Rapids, MI · joined 17 Dec 2009
Trying to bring some common sense to the world of finance. NEW BOOK: https://t.co/R9CBu4QfjK
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Good question about having a mid-life crisis w/your investments
It's harder to sit through stock market losses w/a bigger portfolio
The next stock market crash will be a lot more painful for a new group of wealthier investors w/more $$$ at stake
https://t.co/Ra00V8ELAq https:/
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The unemployment rate has fallen from 4.5% in November to 4.1% in August
We've averaged 80k new jobs a month in 2026
AI is not (yet) the job killer everyone in tech said it would be
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Some questions:
Would inflation be even worse if we weren’t in a housing recession?
Are private markets the perfect place to hide fraud?
Are colleges screwed?
Is NVDA the anti-bubble?
How important is the wealth effect to the economy?
https://t.co/BM2FOl7SgY https://t.co/24
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When Thompson died they shot his ashes out of a cannon (per his request)
It cost Johnny Depp $5 million https://t.co/pT05gELzYE
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Animal Spirits: The Next Michael Burry
The AI story that's never going away
Everyone wants to call the AI crash
The S&P 493 bull case
Why hasn't AI destroyed jobs yet?
Do dividends still matter?
Will Gen Z buy a house?
Youth travel sports & more
https://t.co/J0XIZ3ZsTN ht
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Hunter S. Thompson refused to come to the studio.
The only way Conan could get him on the show was to meet him on a farm in upstate New York. To shoot guns. And drink hard liquor.
They set up a full bar in a field. A bartender in a tuxedo handed Hunter a shotgun he’d never http
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10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INVESTING IN STOCKS
1. Stocks mostly go up but sometimes they go down.
Roughly two-thirds of all years have a double-digit peak-to-trough drawdown
https://t.co/wltTW73iIb https://t.co/wjq2J5LDkb
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We are very close to 7% mortgage rates yet again
We've now had mortgage rates >6% since late-2022
And still no housing market crash
I do wonder if housing is the shock absorber for the economy if/when AI causes an economic slowdown (and rates fall) https://t.co/j90iBr9xRX
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@awealthofcs This take reads like the American version of The Office for many. Sort of how great shows grow.... doesn't happen often because platforms have no patience anymore. Tires is great.
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@awealthofcs Feel the same. It’s getting better and S3 left me excited for the next season
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@awealthofcs Season 1 is perfectly autistic and immature. Just Shane making jokes and trying to get his castmates to break. What’s not to like?
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I kinda hated S1 of Tires
It just didn’t work and wasn’t very good
Gave S2 a try and thought it was very funny
Just finished S3 and I absolutely loved it
Funny, creative & weird
The season finale is one of the best TV episodes I’ve watched in a while
Bravo Shane Gillis htt
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@awealthofcs Chapter Two alone worth the price of the whole book… https://t.co/76cOQoNSDj
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I wrote something about the biggest market risks of the past 100 years along with some thoughts about why I wrote this book
https://t.co/t4QIunz1Q2 https://t.co/4OXhFnQgGq
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It's publication day for my new book!
Risk & Reward is now available
Tons of my favorite charts, stories and anecdotes
I read the audio version of the book myself
I had a lot of fun writing this
I think it's the best thing I've ever written https://t.co/bzoyHrepPb
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Against accounts of the same size
12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views18 067this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %4.80%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.59%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 18 067 | 5 983 | 3.02× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.80% | 1.49% | 3.22× |
| Engagement rate | 0.59% | 0.93% | 0.63× |
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
6.8K12 May
46214 May
68.6K30 Aug
1.4K
321
7531 Aug
62.7K1 Sep
21.8K
1.3M2 Sep
12.9K
28.5K3 Sep
14.3K
12.1K4 Sep
53.6K
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
0.31%12 May
1.52%14 May
0.45%30 Aug
0.84%
0.62%
4.00%31 Aug
0.37%1 Sep
0.77%
1.05%2 Sep
0.39%
0.27%3 Sep
0.40%
1.10%4 Sep
0.55%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes64.3%13 828 in total
Reposts5.7%1 217 in total
Replies1.9%408 in total
Quotes0.7%144 in total
Bookmarks27.5%5 917 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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