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James Surowiecki

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Author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Editor at The Yale Review. Contributing writer for The Atlantic. I wrote The Financial Page for The New Yorker.

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1Apr 2, '25Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they 85.8×19.8M91k21k21k
2Jan 9, '25W. is the most normal person ever to be president.73.1×16.9M159k4.1k8.4k
3Nov 10, '24The president-elect saying he's going to "bring prayer back to our schools" is about as blatant a violation of the 1st Amendment as you can imagine.57.5×13.3M259k22k10k
4Jun 7, '25The most a price can come down, by definition, is 100%. That would take it to zero. Does Trump think stores are paying people to take eggs?40.8×9.4M117k5.6k3.9k
5Aug 7, '25Tariffs are paid by the US companies that import goods, so no money is flowing into the USA. It's just going from American companies (and, eventually, American consumers) to the go25.7×5.9M81k10k1.9k
6May 31, '24The maximum legal contribution to a presidential candidate is $6600.21.9×5M77k3.4k1k
7Aug 16, '23Obama's estate was spared from the Maui fires because it's on Oahu.20×4.6M57k3.5k470
8Apr 3, '25This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring ever18.5×4.3M53k9k8.1k
9Oct 1, '24Should be immediately disqualifying.17.5×4M145k11k2.5k
10Feb 5, '25I may well have missed it, but I've yet to see DOGE offer a single example of actual fraud, as opposed to examples of the government funding programs people disagree with.14.4×3.3M46k3.6k1.5k
11Apr 23, '25But how do you know if someone here's illegally without giving them due process?14.2×3.3M96k6k1.1k
12Feb 3, '25If the value of the Canadian dollar and Mexican peso tumble against the dollar, then U.S. exports will become more expensive while Canadian and Mexican imports become cheaper, defe13.7×3.2M38k3.4k1.9k
13Oct 11, '25Blatant violation of the Hatch Act, illegally using taxpayer money for political propaganda. I know - no one cares.13.3×3.1M133k18k4.7k
14Jul 21, '25This is actually interesting - at least 206,000 people have no idea what a board of directors is.12.8×3M55k2.4k695
15Nov 7, '24This is ridiculous. Biden was the most pro-labor president in 60 yrs. His stimulus plan was targeted to get people back to work. Working-class people saw their real wages grow fast12.7×2.9M23k2.4k2k
16Feb 18, '25This might literally be the first time in US history that an American president has criticized an ally for not surrendering to an invading army. Disgraceful.12.2×2.8M91k10k2.3k
17Sep 25, '23Donald Trump's campaign spokesman tweeting that his boss just committed a federal crime by buying a gun while under felony indictment.11.9×2.7M39k3.5k633
18Apr 2, '25Just brilliant. Because Indonesia has a high tax on coffee imports, Trump's going to put a 32% tax on coffee imports from Indonesia - even though the US exports no coffee to Indone11.7×2.7M23k2.9k2.4k
19Jun 13, '25Absolutely insane for the head of HHS to tell Americans that none of the vaccines their kids are getting have gone through safety tests - when all of them have been safety-tested.11.7×2.7M53k7.5k2.1k
20Jul 15, '25Fateh was born and has lived his entire life in the U.S., and if you listen to him he sounds like any other millennial. There is no sense in which he is not an American.11.1×2.6M43k2.8k1.4k
21Nov 10, '25People are booing him because he's a terrible president.11×2.5M129k7.2k1.7k
22Jul 2, '25The last census was done when Donald Trump was president.10.3×2.4M66k4.2k899
23Sep 11, '24The ABC moderators have let Trump speak for 9 minutes longer - roughly 30% more - than Harris. The way they've "rigged" the debate is by letting him hang himself with his own strea10.1×2.3M66k8.7k2.2k
24May 9, '25Suspending habeas corpus would suspend the right for everyone, not just for undocumented people. So what Stephen Miller is saying here is that Trump is thinking about asserting the9.7×2.2M45k9.2k2.5k
25Sep 4, '25The word "God" does not appear in the Constitution.9.7×2.2M74k4.1k1.1k
26May 15, '25It's hard to know how politics works in a world where a big chunk of voters cannot be moved by empirical reality. No rational person can look at the past month and say "Trump won h9.5×2.2M81k5k2k
27Mar 28, '25Musk says that the National Park Service spent almost a billion dollars on a 10-question survey. The NPS' annual budget is $3.3 billion. Does anyone find it remotely plausible that9.1×2.1M34k3.9k1.5k
28Sep 12, '24"Sorority sister" here means they belonged to the same sorority more than a decade apart, at different schools. What's shameless is Mike Lee for posting something this silly.8.8×2M75k5.3k632
29Sep 5, '25Completely incredible. Lutnick and Trump brag about getting South Korea to invest billions in the U.S., then turn around and arrest South Koreans who were here temporarily in the U8.8×2M45k9k2.7k
30Aug 26, '24In all seriousness, why should U.S. taxpayers pay for Secret Service protection for someone who is no longer running for president?8.7×2M33k1.4k245
31Jan 31, '25J.D. Vance should feel seen.8.5×2M87k5.6k4.2k
32Sep 26, '25We gave 10 Medals of Honor to US troops who landed in Normandy and fought the Germans on D-Day. We gave 20 Medals of Honor - twice as many - to US cavalrymen who killed hundreds of8.3×1.9M21k2.9k821
33Jul 15, '25This is one of the dumbest TV scenes ever. And making it worse is the fact that it's all a setup for Billy Bob to do his monologue of lies about how wind turbines supposedly don't 8.2×1.9M28k1.3k2.7k
34Apr 25, '25They're not wearing uniforms, they show no IDs, have no documentation showing they're legally authorized to grab this person. How are the people in that room supposed to distinguis8.2×1.9M51k5.4k1.8k
35Feb 22, '24I still want someone - anyone - to explain how telling a bank that you own a 30,000-sq-ft apartment when your apartment is actually 11,000 sq ft is not fraud.8.1×1.9M18k1.2k469
36Sep 24, '24Sexism aside, no candidate for president should talk to any American citizens like this. The president is our representative. He's not our king. He's not our savior. This is how a 8.0×1.9M54k7.9k1.7k
37May 4, '25It's impossible to overstate how stupid Trump's view of trade is. He literally thinks that if you, American consumer, buy a TV that's made in China, you've "lost money," even thoug7.7×1.8M27k2.8k1.3k
38Apr 15, '25Once again, if this guy had just been deported, this would not be a story. The reason it's important is that Trump has sent this guy to prison for life, even though he was never ev7.7×1.8M38k3.6k1.3k
39Jul 15, '24The myth making is out of control. George H.W. Bush flew 58 combat missions as a pilot against the Japanese, and successfully completed a bombing run in a burning plane before havi7.7×1.8M31k4.1k1.2k
40Jun 25, '25Exactly what a nativist would have tweeted 100 years ago above a photo of Italian immigrants at the San Gennaro Festival.7.5×1.7M25k1.3k816
41Sep 7, '24Unsurprisingly, Dr. Naomi Wolf is wrong: Martin Luther King, Jr., was never convicted of a felony.7.4×1.7M42k3.3k604
42Jul 28, '24Posting a video that shows Harris saying politically damaging things she never said, without making it very clear it's a parody, seems like the definition of defamation.7.4×1.7M38k11k940
43Oct 1, '24The best part of this tweet is the Photoshop job they did on JD Vance's jawline.7.3×1.7M54k1.8k616
44Jun 7, '25This is just a flat-out lie. But Theo Von doesn't know where this phony statistic comes from, so he can't challenge Vance. And lots of Von's listeners are going to assume - mistake7.2×1.7M36k3.6k1.2k
45Oct 28, '25Every time people do one of these photo comparisons, it makes Musk's gesture look more sketchy.7.1×1.6M97k2.9k922
46Sep 7, '24This is actually charming.7.0×1.6M43k9631.2k
47Jun 28, '25The base of the Democratic Party is not in Glastonbury, England, you dunce.7.0×1.6M99k4.6k1.1k
48Sep 15, '24Gerald Ford faced two assassination attempts in 17 days in 1975.7.0×1.6M45k5.1k725
49Feb 1, '25Buttigieg was asking Congress to allocate more money to the FAA so it could hire 2000 more air traffic controllers.6.9×1.6M43k5.4k1.9k
50Dec 17, '24Lincoln survived for 9 hours after being shot, so apparently John Wilkes Booth didn't kill him.6.6×1.5M48k2.5k844
51Aug 15, '25"Unless you beat cops viciously on January 6th. If you did that, we will pardon you."6.5×1.5M73k9.4k684
52Aug 26, '25Mortgage applications are of course not public.6.2×1.4M22k2.8k720
53Jan 6, '25Being shot because you were climbing through a smashed window to get past a barricade in order to illegally enter a chamber that congressmen were being evacuated from is the opposi6.1×1.4M41k3.3k481
54Aug 9, '24You cannot "back out" of something you never agreed to.6.0×1.4M48k3.3k185
55Dec 17, '24The free-speech president is going to sue a pollster for being wrong.5.9×1.4M38k2.6k724
56Sep 29, '24Asking US taxpayers to subsidize people who live in beach homes in a state with no income tax is absurd.5.9×1.4M18k1.7k388
57Nov 5, '24Jordan did not endorse Trump. Brady did not endorse Trump. Tony Hawk did not endorse Trump. No Community Note.5.8×1.3M54k3.7k636
58Apr 30, '25There are many cringey things about Trump's 2nd term. But nothing is as cringey as watching these Cabinet meetings where Trump's appointees kowtow to him and slather him with prais5.8×1.3M34k3.8k1.4k
59Oct 20, '25Oakland was 45% black in 1977. Two thirds of the population was nonwhite.5.8×1.3M67k2.6k1.8k
60Oct 11, '25Where in the Immigration and Nationality Act does it say that US citizens have to prove that they're citizens or else be arrested?5.7×1.3M42k5.7k1.5k
61Jun 12, '25U.S. senator is either so dumb that he doesn't understand the concept of "per capita," or is convinced that his followers are so dumb that they won't understand it and recognize ho5.4×1.2M31k2.6k636
62Jul 26, '25True. Also true that it's hard to prosecute him because no one has identified any crime he committed.5.4×1.2M34k1.7k323
63May 6, '25Brilliant to threaten tourists with being arrested by ICE and dumped into a detention center. Very humorous, especially coming from an administration that did exactly that to two G5.4×1.2M37k5k1.2k
64Feb 13, '25We have a guy hell-bent on dismantling the government who is too lazy to actually read a contract, too careless to distinguish between different parts of a company, and perfectly h5.2×1.2M21k2.8k1.3k
65Dec 29, '20In 1947, New York City vaccinated 5 million people against smallpox in two weeks. How can we be so much worse at this 75 years later?5.1×092k16k568
66Oct 20, '24Florida is able to count all its votes by Election Night because state law allows it to count mail-in votes as they arrive. Because of Republicans, state law in PA, Michigan, and W5.0×1.2M31k5.1k983
67Apr 29, '25If not for the valiant efforts of Pam Bondi and Trump's Department of Justice, one third of all Americans would have died.4.7×1.1M31k1.7k979
68May 3, '25So weary of protesters showing up to yell at someone who has no power over current U.S. foreign policy, while almost never showing up to yell at the people who actually do have pow4.7×1.1M29k1.9k492
69Sep 7, '25"Backed off" is a nice way of saying "Admitted he completely made up the story."4.6×1.1M58k5.3k870
70Sep 15, '24No one was "sent" to Springfield. Immigrants who were legally allowed in the country moved there for work.4.5×1M26k1.4k295
71Apr 2, '25As a reminder, Congress could repeal all these tariffs tomorrow and take back the complete authority over tariffs and trade that the Constitution gives it. Every congressman who do4.5×1M22k4.4k878
72Mar 26, '24Politician gives ordinary, platitudinous statement in response to disaster. Online racists: "OMG! This guy is black!"4.4×1M22k1.7k784
73Sep 23, '25Just outrageously, insanely unconstitutional for an official government account to say this about religion. Jefferson and Madison are rolling over in their graves.4.4×1M31k2.8k847
74Sep 25, '25Trying to criminalize the act of calling a government "authoritarian" is exactly what an authoritarian government would do.4.1×945k64k6.7k1.2k
75Jun 25, '25Mamdani wins because of overwhelming support from white, college-educated voters. Stephen Miller: I blame immigrants!4.1×939k31k3.4k806
76Sep 22, '25He does not care. When you are dead and no longer useful to him, you're gone. He just moves on and does not look back.3.8×865k42k2.7k1.6k
77Sep 17, '25For a public university to dismiss faculty members based on the content of political comments they made outside the classroom is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment. Calling the3.7×855k29k3.9k646
78May 19, '25It's a small thing, but the fact that actual adults are straightfacedly calling a budget proposal "the Big Beautiful Bill" like they're 4-year-olds is just embarrassing.3.6×841k24k2.1k294
79Mar 24, '25One obvious reason why Trump's advisers might choose to talk on Signal would be if they do not want their conversations permanently recorded and archived, as is required by federal3.6×823k30k4.8k844
80Sep 20, '25100% of the stories Fox News runs about AOC are bad. It's still free speech.3.5×805k46k2.7k613
81Apr 7, '25Just to remind everyone: It is absolutely nuts that a single person is wreaking total havoc on the global economy, and doing it by exercising powers that the Constitution explicitl3.5×803k25k4.7k564
82Feb 20, '25What the hell happened to this guy? He used to be a goofy tech dude who cared about stopping climate change and getting humans to Mars. Now he sounds like every other generic edgel3.5×802k21k1.2k802
83Dec 5, '24This is simply not correct. The Civil Rights Act bans discrimination on the basis of religion, which is not an immutable characteristic.3.3×770k21k1k720
84Sep 27, '25It is absolutely disgusting to see an American write "Are you going to comply?" in reference to a president demanding that a company fire an employee for political reasons. This is3.3×752k26k4.2k760
85Apr 21, '25If we go into a recession this year, it will be hands down the stupidest, most avoidable recession in the history of the U.S.3.2×730k31k2.5k329
86Dec 3, '24You cannot say you care about whether someone is a liar and then endorse Donald Trump and still be considered a serious person.3.1×722k22k1.6k313
87May 31, '20Camden, over the past 5 yrs, has invested heavily in de-escalation training and adopted a use-of-force policy that's been called the most progressive in the U.S., one that stresses3.0×046k14k928
88Oct 30, '25Very funny to have Noem talking about traffic safety, given that between 1989 and 2010 she collected 20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, and a citation for driving wit2.9×674k22k5.3k713
89Apr 4, '25We went from "Expensive eggs are a national crisis!" to "Losing money costs you nothing" really fast.2.9×659k36k3.5k761
90Aug 25, '24Harris walks calmly away until they can get the annoying guy off stage. OP: "She FLED!"2.7×629k24k699335
91Jun 16, '25No one knows this, because Gunther is lying. There were no posts from Walz praising Boelter, and Walz did not delete any such posts - because there were none to delete.2.6×598k24k1.5k236
92Nov 12, '24Joe Biden is president. The Democrats have a majority in the Senate. They should confirm all of these nominees - as the Republican Senate confirmed Trump's judicial nominees, inclu2.4×560k25k3.3k347
93Sep 10, '21Covid has now killed more Americans in 18 months than all the wars of the 20th century combined. And people are out here complaining that requiring unvaxxed workers to get tested o2.0×035k7.1k414
94Sep 15, '22Ron DeSantis literally used Florida taxpayer money to pay for a scheme to pick up migrants who were in Texas - that is, not even in Florida - and fly them to Massachusetts. How are1.9×031k6.5k246
95Sep 17, '20If we hadn’t rewritten the Constitution, Marsha Blackburn wouldn’t be able to vote.1.7×035k4.5k116
96Oct 3, '22New study of almost 600,000 deaths in Ohio and Florida shows that registered Republicans had far higher excess-death rates than registered Democrats during the pandemic, with almos1.7×022k6.5k1.7k
97Apr 26, '22Musk is taking on $25 billion in debt financing to acquire Twitter, at an avg interest rate of between 4.5-5%. That means Twitter's going to have to pay $1.15-$1.3 billion a year i1.5×024k4.8k768
98Sep 6, '25It is in fact great that people can worship here however they want, without the government trying to stop them.1.5×347k22k1k214
100Dec 12, '22The people booing you were at a Dave Chappelle show. Those are not people who have fallen prey to the "woke mind virus."1.3×026k1.8k189

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