Colby Smith ✓

@colbyLsmith · New York, NY · joined 13 Feb 2013

@nytimes correspondent writing about the Federal Reserve and the US economy. Previously @FT, @TheEconomist, @BloombergTV. colby.smith@nytimes.com

18 877Followers

2 174Following

6 897Posts total

52.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views6 150this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %32.58%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.69%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 150	2 751	2.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	32.58%	9.00%	3.62×
Engagement rate	0.69%	1.65%	0.42×

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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

12.4K26 Aug

6.2K28 Aug

4.3K

24.1K29 Aug

5.6K30 Aug

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

0.69%26 Aug

0.72%28 Aug

1.07%

0.50%29 Aug

0.57%30 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes65.2%240 in total

Reposts16.8%62 in total

Replies6.0%22 in total

Quotes1.1%4 in total

Bookmarks10.9%40 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

Warsh on Friday sounded a lot like his colleagues who have grown impatient about inflation. That includes Alberto Musalem of @stlouisfed, who told @nytimes that he has a "very open mind" about September, but conveyed there was a solid case for raising rates. With "both supply 5.6K views · 28 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 30 Aug 2026 NEW: Warsh, after talking tough on inflation at Jackson Hole, faces a "no-win" situation on rates Warsh cleared a crucial hurdle during his speech, sharing his views on the economy, clearing up confusion about the Fed's commitment to its 2% target and acknowledging there might 24.1K views · 80 likes · 33 reposts · 6 replies 29 Aug 2026 Warsh is earning plaudits for outlining his views about the economy and making clear that the Fed would take action if necessary to squash inflation "There’s a gray area of what’s forward guidance and what isn’t. He’s been a forward guidance hard-liner until today." 4.3K views · 34 likes · 6 reposts · 6 replies 28 Aug 2026 Warsh, in his first Jackson Hole speech, sought to alleviate concerns about his commitment to stamping out elevated inflation as he laid out his most comprehensive views to date about the economy. He made clear that taming elevated inflation is strictly the Fed's responsibility 6.2K views · 39 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 28 Aug 2026 NEW: Warsh heads to Jackson Hole with an opportunity to articulate his own framework for thinking about the economy, the policy choices in front of the Fed as it contends with elevated inflation and how he is assessing seismic changes — such as productivity gains from AI — that h 12.4K views · 59 likes · 21 reposts · 4 replies 26 Aug 2026