David Wessel ✓

@davidmwessel · Washington, D.C. · joined 28 Apr 2009

Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings. My latest book "Only the Rich Can Play," the story of Opportunity Zones.

78 931Followers

1 000Following

54 831Posts total

14.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 919this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.43%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.42%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 919	2 896	0.66×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.43%	9.51%	0.26×
Engagement rate	0.42%	1.56%	0.27×

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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

1.2K24 Jun

1.9K6 Jul

1.1K9 Jul

8.5K20 Aug

2K27 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

0.89%24 Jun

0.42%6 Jul

0.47%9 Jul

0.12%20 Aug

0.30%27 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes51.7%31 in total

Reposts11.7%7 in total

Replies1.7%1 in total

Quotes1.7%1 in total

Bookmarks33.3%20 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

Full text of new letter from Fed Governor Lisa Cook's lawyer (Abbe Lowell) to White House counsel on why the president can't fire her. https://t.co/8MFetCr43o https://t.co/NQrdqfzNZQ 2K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 New from Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti of @BrookingsInst Who is buying U.S. Treasury debt and why?https://t.co/227TuNE8Dt 8.5K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 20 Aug 2026 What is a ‘reaction function’ in central banking? How does it differ from ‘forward guidance’? Latest in the Hutchins Center Explains series @BrookingsInst by Zixun Tan & me. https://t.co/ewBcg6PyMr 1.1K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 09 Jul 2026 New from @BrookingsInst's Hutchins Center: Wealthier Florida households respond to rising insurance premiums by investing it mitigation; less wealthy don't. By Shan Ge, Ankit Kalda, Varun Sharma, Vikas Soni https://t.co/MUQ75ZacXD 1.9K views · 4 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 06 Jul 2026 What should Kevin Warsh learn from Alan Greenspan's 1996 insight that the computer-driven boost to productivity justified holding interest rates steady. My take. https://t.co/7rOHqCAzum 1.2K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 24 Jun 2026