Megan Cassella

@mmcassella · Washington, DC · joined 07 Apr 2011

Washington correspondent for @CNBC. megan.cassella@cnbc.com / Instagram: @megancnbc / Signal: megan.27

19 928Followers

1 910Following

8 457Posts total

160.5KViews on collected posts

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Megan Cassella@mmcassella8 Sep

A striking stat as Republicans in statewide races this year try to figure out how closely to align themselves with a President with underwater approval ratings: Less than half of the GOP candidates in competitive races are set to speak at this week's midterm convention in Dallas 1.1K views · 5 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella4 Sep

@mmcassella "If you don't saddle our country with runaway inflation, I will cripple our economy with a self-embargo of critical goods and also more inflation" is a pretty interesting position to take.... 47 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella4 Sep

@mmcassella This is like putting a loaded gun to your own head demanding ransom from yourself or else you will pull the trigger It requires a combination of stupidity, ignorance and evilness plus no institutional guardrails whatsoever Poor 🇺🇸 83 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella4 Sep

@mmcassella Who gets to tell him that the trade deficits result in a recycling of dollars back into the US via purchase of US Treasuries...which...wait for it...cause market derived yields to decline. 29.2K views · 81 likes · 15 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella4 Sep

Strange new threat here from the President to cut off trade completely with countries with which the U.S. has a trade deficit (most of them) unless the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates. https://t.co/KdYNnl9ZQb

8.1K views · 33 likes · 5 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella2 Sep

Palantir’s Alex Karp wanders into the press room at today’s G20 Innovation Summit https://t.co/KLHL11hlIl

2.8K views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella2 Sep

Bumped into Mexico's Economy Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, on the sidelines of today's G20 Summit in Chapel Hill. He tells me he met with Sec. Lutnick today and chatted trade, tariffs -- a meeting that comes amid ongoing USMCA negotiations. 1.6K views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella29 May 2025

@mmcassella Ms Cassella, I suspect that you as a serious journalist did not set out to ask a question that would end by Mr Trump embarrassing himself with his ignorance, and narcissistic personality. You deserve credit for being unafraid to ask a fair and honest question. Well d

427 views · 15 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella29 May 2025

@mmcassella https://t.co/Oe6u9Isdfb

228 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella3 Feb 2025

@mmcassella Yup and I began researching the intersection of US foreign policy and trade negotiations from the creation of the GATT. No one cared about security when I started! 971 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Megan Cassella@mmcassella3 Feb 2025

At age 22 when Barack Obama was president I took a job covering trade policy because it was my way in to a national news organization, and guys I did not expect that experience to remain so relevant today 115.9K views · 474 likes · 28 reposts · 49 replies Open on X →

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

Median views1 645this account1 011median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.25%this account3.74%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.83%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 645	1 011	1.63×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.25%	3.74%	2.21×
Engagement rate	0.83%	1.65%	0.50×

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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

115.9K3 Feb

971

22829 May

427

1.6K2 Sep

2.8K

8.1K4 Sep

29.2K

1.1K8 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.48%3 Feb

0.41%

2.19%29 May

4.68%

0.85%2 Sep

0.53%

0.65%4 Sep

0.35%

1.20%

6.38%

0.83%8 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes78.7%642 in total

Reposts6.9%56 in total

Replies8.8%72 in total

Quotes1.5%12 in total

Bookmarks4.2%34 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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