Nicholas Mulder ✓

@njtmulder · New York, USA · joined 15 Oct 2015

Political & economic history @Cornell. Author of “The Economic Weapon” (2022) and “The Age of Confiscation” (2026). I write at the Weltinnenpolitik Substack.

15 269Followers

1 920Following

7 391Posts total

187.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views3 360this account964median for 10K–100K

Reach, %22.01%this account3.25%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.66%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 360	964	3.49×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	22.01%	3.25%	6.77×
Engagement rate	1.66%	2.01%	0.83×

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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

2.2K7 Jul

17.2K24 Aug

4.4K

36.5K

1.6K

96.3K2 Sep

2.3K3 Sep

1.5K

388

25.5K4 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.37%7 Jul

0.39%24 Aug

1.02%

1.30%

1.16%

5.27%2 Sep

2.24%3 Sep

2.36%

2.32%

2.03%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes75.7%5 166 in total

Reposts15.4%1 051 in total

Replies0.7%46 in total

Quotes0.5%34 in total

Bookmarks7.7%527 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

The Age of Confiscation is out this fall. It’s a book about how seizing property has been more important to recent history than we tend to think, and about why it is returning in our era of geopolitics, energy and climate shocks. You can preorder it here: https://t.co/uf3hakhRIq 25.5K views · 406 likes · 91 reposts · 8 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@njtmulder If Trump's prepared to steal oil from Venezuala, then gold belonging to the likes of the Netherlands must seem fair game for him to pilfer 388 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@njtmulder @gabrielwinant Charles De Gaulle sent a French warship to New York to recover France’s gold deposits at Fort Knox in the 1960s. Augured the beginning of the end of Bretton Woods. Its fed driven alternative is clearly not up to the task anymore 1.5K views · 34 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@njtmulder Salient that New York financed the Nazis in the first place! https://t.co/NRtkf1Vuzl 2.3K views · 43 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

The salient historical fact is that many European central banks (BdF, DNB, NBB) moved their gold reserves to New York in 1939–1940 to avoid Nazi confiscation. Gives one a sense of the arc of hegemonic security that is being undone. 96.3K views · 4.2K likes · 862 reposts · 18 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Not unlike the surge in millenarianism and religious cults amidst the civil wars + climatic upheavals of the general crisis of the 17th century 1.6K views · 13 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I've talked to people in recent years (and should have written more) about AI filling an almost religious role in American tech, business and finance generally. You could ignore or even lean into the withering of US institutions because providence (superintelligence) was at hand 36.5K views · 386 likes · 62 reposts · 15 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Compared to start of US naval blockade in June, situation today is IMO less favorable to stringent US secondary sanctions enforcement. Lower oil inventories & refinery runs put a premium on keeping barrels moving, plus a faster oil-inflation-rates-Treasury yield feedback loop 4.4K views · 31 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

US policy toward Iran shifted from kinetic warfare to economic pressure campaign at an unfortunate time for Bessent, who has been very busy lately. 17.2K views · 57 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

https://t.co/ajm0r39Ti5 2.2K views · 3 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 07 Jul 2026 · Open on X →