Julian Jessop ✓

@julianHjessop · 'Tufton Street' (apparently!) · joined 26 May 2009

Independent economist. Likes charts. IEA Economics Fellow. Schools speaker. Binfluencer. Diploma in Law. FRSA. COYG. Views here are mine only. Also on Substack.

38 071Followers

3 312Following

46 523Posts total

856KViews on collected posts

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Julian Jessop ✓@julianHjessop19 Sep

10p off fuel duty might be good politics, but it's bad economics... 1️⃣ petrol prices are not particularly high in real terms 2️⃣ higher prices are the least bad way to manage demand in response to a supply shock 3️⃣ not obvious why motorists should be a priority for tax cuts 5.8K views · 56 likes · 5 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Julian Jessop ✓@julianHjessop19 Sep

📢 new blog post ✍️ "Six questions and answers on the new productivity data" Don't watch Match of the Day, read this instead... 😉 https://t.co/L8gGeDxUbV https://t.co/yTnyJlZuHs

1.8K views · 16 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Julian Jessop ✓@julianHjessop19 Sep

So much for Healey avoiding the kiteflying that contributed to the damaging pre-Budget speculation under Reeves... 🙄 37.4K views · 281 likes · 47 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Julian Jessop ✓@julianHjessop18 Sep

Exclusive from @benclatworthy Labour is considering plans to extend the mansion tax to properties worth more than £1.5 million in the Budget in a move that would hit nearly 300,000 homes The government originally announced an extra levy worth between £2,500 and £7,500 a year 444.7K views · 178 likes · 56 reposts · 160 replies Open on X →

Julian Jessop ✓@julianHjessop18 Sep

One reason economic debate is so poor is that a “financial journalist” such as @paullewismoney can spread nonsense like this... 🙄 At best, this measures “gross margin” before accounting for the costs of running a bank; it is not “profit”. Nor is this an accurate representation 24.4K views · 396 likes · 69 reposts · 44 replies Open on X →

Julian Jessop ✓@julianHjessop18 Sep

Another important point in here from Simon on the better productivity data... 👇 I would put it like this: the new data suggests that UK workers have banked more of the improvement in their hourly productivity in the form of additional time off rather than higher incomes. 9.3K views · 77 likes · 8 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Julian Jessop ✓@julianHjessop18 Sep

I agree with Tom's conclusion, the US is the economic outlier to study. But the UK productivity revision risks being overstated. It moves the UK's post-GFC productivity trend from in-line with France, to in-line with Germany. What remains important (despite its importance as a

61.4K views · 214 likes · 43 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Julian Jessop ✓@julianHjessop17 Sep

Latest: Banks have £915billion of our money in savings accounts paying average 1.64% and £305bn in accounts paying 0% - average 1.23%. They can deposit that with BoE which pays Bank Rate 3.75%. Over last 12 months banks made £28.5bn profit on our money! (BoE Table A6.1, 29/7/26) 271K views · 1.5K likes · 748 reposts · 102 replies Open on X →

Julian Jessop ✓@julianHjessop20 May

@julianHjessop @AllisonPearson Presumably because you have the same useless and probably communist civil servants pushing the idea. These people need to be exposed and fired with no pension. 45 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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

Median views30 911this account995median for 10K–100K

Reach, %81.19%this account3.92%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.99%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	30 911	995	31.1×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	81.19%	3.92%	20.7×
Engagement rate	0.99%	1.54%	0.64×

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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

4520 May

271K17 Sep

61.4K18 Sep

9.3K

24.4K

444.7K

37.4K19 Sep

1.8K

5.8K

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Engagement rate per post

0.00%20 May

0.89%17 Sep

0.45%18 Sep

1.03%

2.10%

0.11%

0.95%19 Sep

1.22%

1.27%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.

What the audience does

Likes61.8%2 745 in total

Reposts22.1%980 in total

Replies8.3%369 in total

Quotes3.0%135 in total

Bookmarks4.8%215 in total

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