Jason Furman ✓

@jasonfurman · Cambridge, MA · joined 08 Apr 2011

Professor @Harvard, Director @HarvardBizGov, Senior Fellow @PIIE, teaches Ec10, words @nytopinion, was Chair of Pres Obama's CEA. Some posts may be educational.

333 571Followers

1 923Following

21 739Posts total

133.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman8 Jul

@jasonfurman @genebsperling subscribed too what’s gene’s take on web3? 261 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman8 Jul

One of the most consequential and thoughtful economic policymakers of last 30+ years--@genebsperling --is now on Substack, I subscribed. 25.3K views · 56 likes · 10 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman8 Jul

https://t.co/G5zq1uHiJS 10.6K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman8 Jul

Terrific testimony, worth reading. 21.5K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman8 Jul

Building a fair and thriving market requires strong, independent antitrust enforcement to protect consumers, workers, and competition says @HarvardBizGov / @Kennedy_School Visiting Scholar and @MITEcon Professor Nancy Rose in her testimony to the House Subcommittee on the 21.6K views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman2 Jul

Jobs day: 57K jobs added in June (111K average for last three months), less than expected but probably more than breakeven. Unemployment rate fell to 4.2%, has been stable for 2 years now, but participation and employment rates fell. Wage growth picked up. https://t.co/er8NRVX

14.8K views · 70 likes · 15 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman28 Jun

@jasonfurman All that work and drama to tame the inflation and now we back to this https://t.co/uVEZvDCvDI

GIF

126 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman28 Jun

@jasonfurman https://t.co/rqG3M6C3Qm 193 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman28 Jun

@jasonfurman https://t.co/8K8foxqolO 128 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman28 Jun

This is the cut of the data that had people especially worried about inflation after this week's PCE infaltion release. https://t.co/VC48lb89ui

24K views · 102 likes · 11 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman25 Jun

PCE-based ecumenical underlying inflation measure was 3.5% in May. As most metrics are highly elevated. https://t.co/5kvjNoAQun

12.4K views · 45 likes · 3 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman14 May

Statistical Evidence for the Tradables → CPI Less Shelter Channel "When shelter is removed, inflation is overwhelmingly explained by the tradables system. PPIACO explains roughly 82–85% of CPI less shelter, PPIFIS explains roughly 94%, and VAR/FEVD assigns more than 90% of http

2.1K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Jason Furman ✓@jasonfurman2 Sep 2025

"No, NK inflation theory cannot explain your services inflation tests. By design, this index should have been the “expectations + slack” showcase for NK models. Instead, the results show it is still overwhelmingly driven by housing, profits, and energy, which are balance-sheet 661 views · 3 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views12 358this account6 369median for 100K–1M

Reach, %3.70%this account1.92%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.29%this account1.15%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	12 358	6 369	1.94×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.70%	1.92%	1.93×
Engagement rate	0.29%	1.15%	0.25×

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

6612 Sep

2.1K14 May

12.4K25 Jun

24K28 Jun

128

193

126

14.8K2 Jul

21.6K8 Jul

21.5K

10.6K

25.3K

261

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.06%2 Sep

1.16%14 May

0.46%25 Jun

0.52%28 Jun

0.00%

0.79%

0.63%2 Jul

0.06%8 Jul

0.10%

0.20%

0.29%

0.38%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.15%.

What the audience does

Likes63.1%329 in total

Reposts8.4%44 in total

Replies12.5%65 in total

Bookmarks15.9%83 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

Against accounts of the same size

Growth & engagement

Views per post

Engagement rate per post

What the audience does

Similar accounts