| 1 | May 22, '23 | Senator, I have put together the chart showing the two variables you were trying to link. | 91.9× | 6.8M | 35k | 5.7k | 673 |
| 2 | Sep 20, '25 | Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replac | 49.2× | 3.6M | 16k | 4.2k | 1.6k |
| 3 | May 23, '23 | Senator, I am simply here to provide charts that illustrate your insights. Here is the chart that I believe you requested. | 47.5× | 3.5M | 18k | 1.6k | 398 |
| 4 | Oct 24, '24 | Focusing for a moment on the POLICIES at play. Voters were asked whether they supported 100 different policies, but weren't told whether the policy was from Trump or Harris. Nearly | 41.8× | 3.1M | 28k | 6.7k | 3.5k |
| 5 | Jan 23, '25 | The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high. | 34.1× | 2.5M | 39k | 5.8k | 1.5k |
| 6 | Jun 30, '23 | This guy's worth about $40 million, and took over $300k in PPP loans from the government just a few years back. He asked the government to waive his loans, and indeed, his future l | 32.7× | 2.4M | 21k | 5.5k | 211 |
| 7 | Sep 11, '24 | Perhaps men are too emotional to be President. | 28.6× | 2.1M | 115k | 14k | 912 |
| 8 | Feb 15, '25 | You don't need to be a coder to figure this out. Simply type: tab age You'll discover a smattering of 99 year olds, a few 100 year olds, a couple of 101 year olds, and a pileup of | 23.7× | 1.8M | 18k | 2.3k | 1.5k |
| 9 | Apr 12, '25 | I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, comp | 22.6× | 1.7M | 45k | 5.9k | 846 |
| 10 | Mar 12, '25 | I believe this is a world first: An intra-day tariff chart. | 20.4× | 1.5M | 30k | 2.1k | 1.3k |
| 11 | Sep 12, '24 | I drew you a picture and hope you like it. | 19.4× | 1.4M | 20k | 3k | 1.3k |
| 12 | May 8, '25 | Trump's "big" trade deal is with the UK: - It's a framework not a deal - They're our 11th largest trading partner - They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go) - They *already* charge | 19.2× | 1.4M | 9.8k | 3.1k | 1.1k |
| 13 | Sep 13, '24 | Senator @JDVance said that economists disagree about whether tariffs lead to higher prices. So this week, the University of Chicago surveyed economists and asked them exactly this | 19.1× | 1.4M | 14k | 5.2k | 1.4k |
| 14 | Aug 29, '24 | This is what happens when you submit the policy proposals of both candidates to similar scrutiny. | 19× | 1.4M | 19k | 5.2k | 2.1k |
| 15 | Nov 16, '25 | It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same product | 15.6× | 1.2M | 11k | 2.2k | 973 |
| 16 | Apr 12, '25 | Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announc | 15.6× | 1.2M | 15k | 1.6k | 682 |
| 17 | Aug 5, '24 | You are right, Senator. The S&P 500 is down -3% so far today, or as I like to say, up only +9% so far through 2024, up +14% over the past twelve months, or +55% since Trump lef | 15.1× | 1.1M | 20k | 4k | 555 |
| 18 | Jul 7, '25 | The U.S. is imposing a 25% tariff on Korea because of trade deficits that it claims are "engendered by Korea's Tariff and Non Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers." But Korea has a | 14.9× | 1.1M | 14k | 4.2k | 982 |
| 19 | May 5, '25 | If Trump is serious about tariffs on movies, it's a very dangerous escalation. Tariffs have not traditionally been applied to services, and the United States is a massive net expor | 14.9× | 1.1M | 8.5k | 1.9k | 510 |
| 20 | Feb 18, '25 | And here's the number of RECIPIENTS of social security in each age bucket with the death field set to false (and recipient set to true). A mere 89,106 are aged 99+, not the tens of | 14.4× | 1.1M | 7.2k | 1.9k | 1.1k |
| 21 | Apr 3, '25 | Impressed the crack White House economic team not only found the Heard and McDonald Islands—an uninhabited Australian territory which is a two week sail from the mainland requiring | 14.3× | 1.1M | 17k | 2.6k | 1.1k |
| 22 | Mar 13, '23 | "I'm not saying 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but..." Genuinely disgusting take from the @WSJ opinion page. | 12.5× | 928k | 6k | 747 | 112 |
| 23 | Oct 4, '24 | Senator, I don't want to get caught up on facts, but the share of American-born folks in their prime working years who have jobs is higher than at any point during the Trump admini | 12.4× | 920k | 7.4k | 2.5k | 469 |
| 24 | May 23, '23 | Senator, I have checked the Census Bureau footnotes for you. | 12.3× | 909k | 7.6k | 486 | 46 |
| 25 | Apr 26, '25 | The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price | 11.8× | 876k | 12k | 3.9k | 2.2k |
| 26 | Sep 6, '24 | View post on X | 11.7× | 869k | 10k | 2.8k | 869 |
| 27 | Oct 25, '25 | "Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan b | 11.7× | 866k | 22k | 4.3k | 573 |
| 28 | Jun 14, '25 | mood | 11.5× | 850k | 12k | 1.2k | 896 |
| 29 | Jul 8, '25 | Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Japan because they didn't strike a deal. But... Japan's chief trade negotiator was in DC for talks and couldn't get a meeting with Treasury Secretary | 10.9× | 807k | 13k | 3.9k | 562 |
| 30 | Jun 21, '23 | His celebration omits one key fact... | 10.1× | 751k | 6.7k | 326 | 159 |
| 31 | Mar 11, '25 | This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically. ( ) | 10.0× | 742k | 9.6k | 2.2k | 1k |
| 32 | Aug 26, '25 | Yes, the stake are large. Very large. | 9.9× | 733k | 8.5k | 2k | 909 |
| 33 | Oct 16, '20 | The election is now officially Mr Rogers v. Your Crazy Uncle. | 8.7× | 0 | 55k | 9.2k | 141 |
| 34 | Jul 11, '25 | In February, Trump imposed a 25% across the board tariff on Canadian goods. Chaos ensued. He backed down. Today he imposed a 35% across the board tariff, instead. And somewhere in | 8.6× | 636k | 12k | 1.4k | 206 |
| 35 | Jul 16, '25 | The PPI explicitly excludes imports. | 8.4× | 621k | 9.8k | 910 | 279 |
| 36 | Aug 9, '24 | Summarizing this crazy week in stocks. S&P 500 Last Friday's close: 5,346.56 This Friday's close: 5,344.16 => A decline of four hundredths of a percent. => The smallest w | 8.2× | 610k | 5.9k | 1.1k | 198 |
| 37 | Sep 20, '24 | Most robust economic recovery in the G-7. | 8.2× | 610k | 7.6k | 2.6k | 654 |
| 38 | Jul 5, '19 | Microeconomic decisions create macroeconomic phenomena... | 8.0× | 0 | 34k | 15k | 1.2k |
| 39 | Oct 16, '24 | The results of a recent WSJ survey of market economists suggests that they predict uniformly better economic outcomes under Harris than Trump. | 7.9× | 590k | 8.8k | 3.5k | 549 |
| 40 | Apr 13, '20 | Not a single economist or public health expert. | 7.9× | 0 | 34k | 9.7k | 363 |
| 41 | Apr 2, '25 | Trump says these tariffs will raise roughly $6 trillion. Assuming that's over a 10-year window, that's $600 billion per year. There are 134 million households, so this is about $5, | 7.8× | 578k | 7.7k | 1.7k | 447 |
| 42 | Oct 25, '25 | Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians. | 7.8× | 577k | 32k | 4.4k | 273 |
| 43 | Jul 3, '25 | View post on X | 7.7× | 570k | 9k | 2.1k | 456 |
| 44 | Nov 7, '20 | Guys, the same people who booked the wrong Four Seasons are running our response to covid. | 7.5× | 0 | 50k | 6.3k | 218 |
| 45 | Sep 24, '24 | New crime data just dropped (yesterday). It's your choice whether to believe these carefully collected statistics, or the unsubstantiated claims made by political hucksters. The nu | 7.5× | 556k | 5.8k | 2k | 607 |
| 46 | Jul 4, '25 | Reagan promised tax cuts would pay for themselves. Blew out the deficit. Bush promised tax cuts would pay for themselves. Blew out the deficit. Trump promised tax cuts would pay fo | 7.5× | 553k | 9.9k | 3.5k | 529 |
| 47 | Jul 12, '25 | It is now clear that average tariffs on August 1 are set to be higher than they were on "Liberation Day." Only a fool would look back to the chaos of early April and conclude that | 7.2× | 534k | 7.5k | 1.8k | 335 |
| 48 | Jul 10, '25 | My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R& | 7.1× | 526k | 13k | 2.6k | 934 |
| 49 | Apr 11, '25 | Congratulations, Mr Secretary, you have just discovered the Trans Pacific Partnership. | 6.9× | 512k | 14k | 1.6k | 261 |
| 50 | Mar 27, '25 | It seems clear that the U.S. has destroyed something pretty valuable in forcing Canada to look elsewhere for trusted allies. And I'm simply left asking: To what end? I see no gains | 6.8× | 508k | 7.5k | 1.2k | 215 |
| 51 | May 17, '25 | Real Capitalism™ is the President telling an individual corporation how to set its prices. | 6.8× | 504k | 7.9k | 1.2k | 284 |
| 52 | Oct 24, '24 | It's an astonishing feat of mathematics to raise taxes on 95% of Americans all in the name of cutting taxes on average. | 6.6× | 493k | 7.1k | 1.6k | 698 |
| 53 | Aug 28, '24 | View post on X | 6.6× | 491k | 6k | 1.1k | 370 |
| 54 | Sep 26, '24 | It's weird how many conservatives forget who was President in 2020, and equally weird how many of their best talking points assume the rest of us forgot too. | 6.5× | 479k | 5.8k | 782 | 114 |
| 55 | Aug 9, '24 | crowd: trump: "bacon has quadrupled" bacon: | 6.4× | 474k | 6.7k | 938 | 191 |
| 56 | Aug 28, '24 | posting without comment | 6.0× | 448k | 5.4k | 1k | 206 |
| 57 | May 1, '20 | I don’t think I’ve said this loud enough, so here goes: Every economist I know believes that the single best way to ensure a robust recovery is to beat the bug. There’s no economic | 6.0× | 0 | 33k | 8.3k | 236 |
| 58 | Aug 9, '24 | I made a table to evaluate this claim. | 6.0× | 445k | 7.3k | 982 | 138 |
| 59 | Apr 27, '25 | Every factory on earth, except those located in the United States, can get the inputs they need from China, without paying an additional 145 percent markup. | 5.9× | 441k | 9.4k | 1.8k | 370 |
| 60 | Aug 29, '25 | They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates. | 5.5× | 406k | 7.3k | 2.6k | 443 |
| 61 | Sep 13, '25 | A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, under | 5.4× | 400k | 8.3k | 2.5k | 242 |
| 62 | Mar 19, '25 | View post on X | 5.3× | 396k | 8.6k | 1.8k | 356 |
| 63 | Jun 11, '25 | I'm not sure why the President Trump is boasting that he's charging Americans a 5.5 times higher tax rate than President Xi is charging the Chinese people. | 4.8× | 360k | 8.9k | 2k | 241 |
| 64 | Aug 1, '25 | Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend econom | 4.6× | 344k | 8k | 2.4k | 298 |
| 65 | May 30, '24 | Neither member of the Trump-Pence ticket will vote for Trump '24. | 4.5× | 335k | 9.3k | 649 | 142 |
| 66 | Apr 9, '25 | "It's an extraordinary question to have to ask you, but do you think Donald Trump actually understands how international trade actually works." | 4.5× | 333k | 7.5k | 2.2k | 1.1k |
| 67 | Sep 3, '25 | Political party discovers that higher tax rates lead to higher tax revenues. | 4.4× | 330k | 9.7k | 872 | 186 |
| 68 | Jun 5, '25 | It's just awful when you buy a guy a perfectly good election, and he won't even do whatever you want. | 4.3× | 321k | 12k | 1.6k | 215 |
| 69 | Sep 10, '18 | This is totally true if you exclude 1948Q1,1948Q2,1950Q1,1950Q2,1950Q3,1950Q4,1951Q1,1951Q2,1951Q3,1952Q1,1952Q4,1953Q1,1953Q2,1954Q4,1955Q1,1955Q2,1955Q3,1956Q4,1958Q3,1958Q4,1959 | 4.3× | 0 | 21k | 6.9k | 78 |
| 70 | Jun 7, '25 | I make over $1600 per month now eating eggs. They pay you. | 4.3× | 317k | 9.1k | 756 | 122 |
| 71 | Jul 31, '25 | Worth remembering: The Constitution explicitly gives the power to set tariffs to Congress. They could stop this nonsense by the end of the day. | 4.3× | 316k | 11k | 2.7k | 162 |
| 72 | Mar 20, '20 | No other country has been this far into the pandemic and still had the number of cases growing at the rates the U.S. is seeing. () | 4.0× | 0 | 13k | 6.8k | 862 |
| 73 | Oct 8, '20 | Just as women get paid 20 cents on the dollar less than men, Harris appears to get 20 seconds less on the minute than Pence. | 3.8× | 0 | 23k | 4.4k | 43 |
| 74 | Nov 15, '25 | The scale at which the President is profiting is staggering. Perhaps past presidents snuck out with a million or so — a briefcase full of cash. This time, it's billions, which you | 3.7× | 276k | 8k | 2.3k | 358 |
| 75 | Jul 24, '25 | We are all Jay Powell. | 3.6× | 270k | 13k | 2k | 213 |
| 76 | Apr 30, '25 | In economics, when folks can afford fewer things at higher prices, we call it a decline in real income, and a widespread fall in real income is called a recession. | 3.3× | 247k | 13k | 2k | 404 |
| 77 | Oct 24, '24 | An interesting conclusion: Voters mistakenly believe that many of Harris's most popular policies are actually Trump's. Worth reading the whole thing here: Congrats to @crampell and | 3.3× | 243k | 6.8k | 1.2k | 381 |
| 78 | Jun 9, '18 | Average tariff rates charged by G-7 nations: USA: 1.6% EU: 1.6% UK: 1.6% Italy: 1.6% Germany: 1.6% France: 1.6% Japan: 1.4% Canada: 0.8% (Source: ) | 3.0× | 0 | 9.8k | 6.8k | 110 |
| 79 | Nov 18, '22 | We’re finally going to see a Musk product in self-driving mode. | 2.9× | 0 | 19k | 2.6k | 142 |
| 80 | May 6 | Announcing: @PlatypusEcon — a Substack, YouTube channel, and podcast built around one idea: Economics is one of the most useful, surprising, and weirdly beautiful subjects in the w | 2.9× | 214k | 1.5k | 285 | 301 |
| 81 | Aug 26, '25 | Calling tariff revenue a “windfall” is like calling your speeding ticket a bonus for the police budget. Sure, it’s revenue. But for you, it’s a tax. | 2.9× | 212k | 9k | 2.7k | 451 |
| 82 | Aug 12, '20 | Basically, an admission that Uber's key innovation was to skirt labor law. | 2.8× | 0 | 16k | 3.9k | 118 |
| 83 | Apr 29, '20 | This is stunning: Nearly half of the Q1 decline in GDP can be attributed to healthcare, which is presumably delaying of elective procedures. It's a strange reality that in the mids | 2.8× | 0 | 12k | 4.5k | 548 |
| 84 | Sep 16, '25 | "this is the only time it's happened in yours or my lifetime, which is that we're on the cusp of a recession and the cause is not some external factor. It's not a war, it's not an | 2.8× | 207k | 9.4k | 2.9k | 324 |
| 85 | Mar 24, '20 | As you read various arguments floating around that perhaps we should ease public health restrictions to help the economy, I want you to notice that IN NO CASE ARE THESE ARGUMENTS B | 2.7× | 0 | 14k | 4.1k | 116 |
| 86 | Oct 17, '20 | World leader who managed the pandemic transparently, scientifically, and successfully, is easily re-elected. | 2.7× | 0 | 17k | 2.7k | 78 |
| 87 | May 21, '20 | “When you say per capita, there's many per capitas...” | 2.6× | 0 | 9.3k | 2.2k | 283 |
| 88 | Apr 17, '25 | Trump's first term included two economic masterstrokes -- warp speeding the vaccine, and appointing the Fed Chair who engineered a soft-landing -- and oddly enough, he disavows bot | 2.6× | 192k | 7.1k | 797 | 306 |
| 89 | Aug 28, '20 | How are universities meant to persuade students not to risk parties when the first frat to violate those rules is... The White House. | 2.5× | 0 | 14k | 3.2k | 89 |
| 90 | Sep 5, '25 | WE GOT A KITTEN!!! | 2.4× | 179k | 12k | 364 | 62 |
| 91 | Feb 4, '17 | Amazing diversity as Trump's senior staff is sworn in: White men of many heights, tie colors | 2.3× | 0 | 7.4k | 5.5k | 1 |
| 92 | Dec 2, '18 | Worth watching and reflecting on. | 2.0× | 0 | 9.4k | 2.8k | 301 |
| 93 | Nov 30, '16 | Every savvy CEO will now threaten to ship jobs to Mexico, and demand a payment to stay. Great economic policy. | 2.0× | 0 | 6k | 4.8k | 0 |
| 94 | Aug 10, '22 | Holy cow: There was ZERO inflation last month. That's the headline number, which is well below expectations of +0.2%. Also a good core inflation reading: +0.3%, also below expectat | 2.0× | 0 | 10k | 2.5k | 157 |
| 95 | Mar 31, '21 | Some context on how Biden plans to fund his infrastructure package. | 1.9× | 0 | 9.7k | 2.7k | 385 |
| 96 | Dec 3, '18 | It's just astonishing how much time and effort the entire Republican establishment has put into deconstructing every sentence @Ocasio2018 says, even as they nod their heads silentl | 1.8× | 0 | 11k | 1.9k | 30 |
| 97 | Apr 12, '22 | Lotta headlines today about "inflation at 40-year high." We have a nice test of whether the media is symmetrically interested in good news because in the next month or so, it's lik | 1.8× | 0 | 9.6k | 2.1k | 68 |
| 98 | Feb 3, '21 | If South Dakota were a country, it would have the highest number of covid deaths per capita of any country in the world. | 1.7× | 0 | 8.4k | 2.6k | 101 |
| 99 | Feb 6, '18 | A future economics student is going to look back at 2018 and ask me why the U.S. government embarked on a massive fiscal stimulus when unemployment was 4.1%. I have no idea what to | 1.2× | 0 | 5.8k | 1.6k | 2 |
| 100 | Oct 31, '17 | 50% are below the *median*, sunshine. | 1.0× | 0 | 6.1k | 1.1k | 2 |
| 101 | Oct 2, '20 | While shooing my son up to bed last night, he asked me to carry up an armload of stuffed animals. I told him that was his job. Okay, he said, but will you pick up any I drop? I agr | 1.0× | 0 | 7k | 605 | 99 |
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