Paul Vigna ✓

@paulvigna · joined 03 Mar 2009

Managing editor, American Banker. Author, The Almightier. Last of the Duke Street kings. Opinions mine own. Email: pvignawriting@gmail.com

33 116Followers

1 792Following

37 316Posts total

22.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Paul Vigna ✓@paulvigna2 Sep

I graduated college some decades ago, but I remember thinking even then that four years was one year too long. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the hell out of that fourth year, but I didn’t need it. 1.1K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Paul Vigna ✓@paulvigna22 Aug

The US is almost $80 trillion in debt. There is no normal solution to that problem. We need an un-normal solution. I wrote about one for The New York Times: cancel the debt. All of it. After all, that's what they used to do in the ancient world. Gift link: 2.3K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Paul Vigna ✓@paulvigna10 Aug

If AI really is going to reorder society, these are the questions we need to ask. And the key problem is that the incentives of our economic system are completely misaligned to an AI-driven world of abundance. 1.1K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Paul Vigna ✓@paulvigna9 Aug

A few days ago, I watched an interview between @elonmusk and @TheEconomist discussing the future of artificial intelligence, work, and politics. Like so many conversations about AI, it was fascinating. And like so many conversations about AI, it completely missed what I 14.4K views · 90 likes · 20 reposts · 23 replies Open on X →

Paul Vigna ✓@paulvigna29 Jul

“Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to use AI…” 938 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Paul Vigna ✓@paulvigna22 Jul 2025

Pub Day! My new book The Almightier is out today. Already the top new release in Amazon’s money section, it’s a history of money you haven’t heard before: how money came from religion, eventually broke free from religion and how money became its own morality. And how maybe we ht

3K views · 31 likes · 6 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 143this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.45%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.64%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 143	924	1.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.45%	3.62%	0.95×
Engagement rate	0.64%	1.52%	0.42×

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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

3K22 Jul

93829 Jul

14.4K9 Aug

1.1K10 Aug

2.3K22 Aug

1.1K2 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.48%22 Jul

0.32%29 Jul

0.97%9 Aug

0.26%10 Aug

0.90%22 Aug

0.64%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes53.6%133 in total

Reposts10.9%27 in total

Replies19.8%49 in total

Quotes3.6%9 in total

Bookmarks12.1%30 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.