Olivier Blanchard ✓

@ojblanchard1 · Washington DC · joined 18 Nov 2015

Robert Solow Professor of economics emeritus, MIT, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Professor, Paris School of Economics

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Olivier Blanchard ✓@ojblanchard17 Sep

A very good and clear article on debt cancellation, and why the arguments of people like Nicolas Dufrene, Jezabel Cuppey-Soubeyran do not hold water. https://t.co/S1270Z8fib What makes it particularly interesting is the fact that its author, Henri Steryniak, is very much to the 28.7K views · 236 likes · 57 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Olivier Blanchard ✓@ojblanchard17 Sep

It is indeed nitpicking, and the effect is a net decrease in demand, and a decrease in reserves. But, yes, I should have been more precise. The ECB indeed not selling, it is letting bonds mature and not buying new ones: this leads to a steady decline in ECB bond holdings and 11.9K views · 37 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Olivier Blanchard ✓@ojblanchard17 Sep

@kebabroyal_ @ojblanchard1 But sales would increase the float in times of higher issuance. His statement is simply wrong. 12.4K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Olivier Blanchard ✓@ojblanchard17 Sep

Separate and interesting discussion. True, the ECB (BDF) is slowly reducing its holdings of sovereign bonds, including French bonds (this is called QT, quantitative tightening). By selling those bonds, it decreases their price (not very much, but a bit) and thus increases the 30.7K views · 97 likes · 18 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Olivier Blanchard ✓@ojblanchard16 Sep

@ojblanchard1 Quand un économiste commence son raisonnement en comparant le gouvernement à un particulier ( type " bon père de famille"), je ne perds pas de temps à lire: soit il est totalement incompétent soit il ment sciemment 893 views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Olivier Blanchard ✓@ojblanchard16 Sep

@ojblanchard1 It's beyond that... it's exploiting the truth what you fear. https://t.co/rip65tP5OB 5K views · 73 likes · 32 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Olivier Blanchard ✓@ojblanchard16 Sep

@ojblanchard1 1/ la BdF fait partie de l’Etat donc 2/ l’histoire ne tient pas sauf à imaginer que Pierre soit le gouv, 3/ si Paul, dont ce n’est pas le rôle, veut contrer la politique de Pierre, il remet les titres sur le marché, le taux d’intérêt grimpe, 4/ congeler a donc du se 30.1K views · 92 likes · 18 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Olivier Blanchard ✓@ojblanchard16 Sep

Quelle eloquence ! Quelle incomprehension de l'economie ! (ou peut-etre quel cynisme? Comment distinguer entre les deux?) Je me permets de reproduire le debut mon article du Monde, avec Quentin Vandeweyer, sur l'annulation de la dette detenue par la banque centrale. Le 141.4K views · 1K likes · 297 reposts · 69 replies Open on X →

Olivier Blanchard ✓@ojblanchard16 Sep

Repetition, I am afraid, is the key to convincing.... So let me repeat (Reaction to comments about Greece and the like. ) The argument that the cancelling of the public debt by the central bank has either zero or a negative effect, the argument that I have made this week, is 27.1K views · 188 likes · 41 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

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

Median views27 092this account4 817median for 100K–1M

Reach, %7.46%this account1.79%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.89%this account1.32%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	27 092	4 817	5.62×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.46%	1.79%	4.17×
Engagement rate	0.89%	1.32%	0.67×

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Engagement rate per post

0.89%6 Sep

0.98%

0.38%

2.22%

2.46%

0.41%7 Sep

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.32%.

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Likes59.5%1 745 in total

Reposts15.9%467 in total

Replies3.7%109 in total

Quotes1.4%41 in total

Bookmarks19.4%570 in total

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