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@matthewstoller
"@DrewSmith_33 In a few years we will sign away Raytheon Lockheed and Taiwan peacefully"
@matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:10:50 UTC 155.7K followers, 1515 engagements
"It's just a hunch but I don't think that the public is crying out to allow UnitedHealth Group to become a dominant player in home health care and hospice facilities" @matthewstoller on X 2025-06-10 17:45:23 UTC 155.7K followers, 23.7K engagements
"5. Yes the new Ohio PBM saved the state and the Federal government money cut administrative bloat and increased the amount independent pharmacies got paid by 1200%. Suck it UnitedHealth Group" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:27:39 UTC 155.7K followers, 12.9K engagements
"@LadyBearJones The board members are the Reserve bank Presidents are picked by class B and C directors aka local business leaders. The CEO of Dominion Energy and the CEO of Siemens helped pick Tom Barkin for instance" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-16 02:02:26 UTC 155.6K followers, XXX engagements
"2. In 2018 the Columbus Dispatch revealed that pharma middlemen CVS Caremark and UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx were ripping off the state Medicaid program destroying pharmacies and hurting patients. So Ohio. fired them. And built its own state PBM" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:23:47 UTC 155.7K followers, 3535 engagements
"The people running U.S.-China trade absolutely despise normal Americans. Here's Jacob Rothman who offshores to China. America doesnt want to make spatulas they want to eat burgers he says. Its impossible to bring manufacturing back to the US" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 13:03:58 UTC 155.7K followers, 4119 engagements
""The approval includes conditions barring Synopsys from ending existing customer contracts or denying renewal requests from Chinese clients Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Monday." Ruh-roh" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-14 19:15:28 UTC 155.7K followers, 5161 engagements
"@kenklippenstein Lloyd Doggett is actually smart" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 15:33:42 UTC 155.6K followers, 3835 engagements
"I don't know anything about Jessica Tisch except that she's a billionaire heiress and the police commissioner in NYC. But based on the incessant promotion of her as super important by annoying insiders I'm immediately skeptical. Can anyone educate me" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:30:28 UTC 155.7K followers, 19.8K engagements
"The U.S. government just basically nationalized our main rare earth magnet producer MP Materials and is guaranteeing pricing and customer purchases for XX years. FULL COMMUNISM Now back to our regularly scheduled Zohran Mamdani-bashing" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-11 18:29:06 UTC 155.7K followers, 59.2K engagements
"I went onto TruthSocial and Trump is getting slagged in the replies on Epstein. I cant emphasize how weird that dynamic is" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-13 03:13:31 UTC 155.7K followers, 46.5K engagements
"@julius24993 @ZohranKMamdani The government at various levels runs commissaries grocery stores and public markets all of which sell products made by private individuals and firms. I think that's fine. I don't think the government should run all grocery stores" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 18:07:31 UTC 155.7K followers, XXX engagements
"The removal of the spread pricing ban in the Trump tax bill is good for UnitedHealth group and bad for human beings. Even the modest good stuff in the bill - and there isn't much - is being killed" @matthewstoller on X 2025-06-26 13:34:03 UTC 155.7K followers, 6452 engagements
"The working class realignment away from Democrats started long before Trump it's quite possible his legacy is reversing it" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 18:23:46 UTC 155.7K followers, 9368 engagements
"Why am I afraid of China Well if they define the 21st century it's possible they do a Morganthau plan to the U.S. And that means a lot of us will die because Chinese national security thinkers won't want to take the risk of America having industrial capacity again" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:02:56 UTC 155.7K followers, 57.2K engagements
"Consumer sentiment is getting better so quickly it is almost back to Biden-era levels" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 14:52:06 UTC 155.7K followers, 3935 engagements
"Intesting DOJ is investigating a ServiceNow acquisition" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 15:04:48 UTC 155.7K followers, 3563 engagements
"Health care premiums are gonna be up double digits next year because this clown doesn't know he regulates health insurance. But sure Coke in Steak n Shake will have cane sugar. Healthy" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 02:11:46 UTC 155.7K followers, 109.7K engagements
"Putting aside the political questions for a second. How can anyone defend the track record of the Fed They missed inflation in 2021 big time" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 17:42:19 UTC 155.7K followers, 8433 engagements
"America doesnt want to make spatulas they want to eat burgers Jacob Rothman says. Its impossible to bring manufacturing back to the US. Americans who outsource jobs for a living hate actual Americans" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 01:55:18 UTC 155.7K followers, 13.9K engagements
"The tldr replaced UnitedHealth Group with a state agency and it worked really well" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:50:30 UTC 155.7K followers, 7855 engagements
"Zohran Mamdani wears a suit doesn't curse is positive and talks policy nonstop" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 19:53:11 UTC 155.7K followers, 637.1K engagements
"Fundamentally Trump and the GOP are fine with signing over America to China. They are oligarchs and if China finds a place for them as rulers of the American province they are ok with that" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:13:23 UTC 155.7K followers, 12.5K engagements
"@wearydetective0 It's not hard. For starters China could stop supplying us with transformers for our utilities. Boom power grid starts to fail" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:21:49 UTC 155.7K followers, 1381 engagements
"Tucker Carlson said any American who serves in the IDF should lose his American citizenship. Correct You dont get to fight for a foreign army" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-13 14:12:03 UTC 155.7K followers, 106.6K engagements
"The point is that protecting ourselves from Chinese influence is defensive. It means industrial sovereignty not military battles. But that's impossible to square with Wall Street and our posture in the Middle East" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:17:29 UTC 155.7K followers, 7014 engagements
"@ZaidJilani @ezraklein It's the same dynamic. That's why the donors fighting over Harvard/Columbia was so important. Plenty of professors were cool criticizing Israel. No longer" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:10:13 UTC 155.7K followers, XXX engagements
"One significant problem with our alliance with Israel is that the values of that nation-state are so horrible and antithetical to liberal democracy that it is ripping apart America's faith in collective endeavors like the rule of law" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 12:56:25 UTC 155.7K followers, 29.5K engagements
"The tone on Wall Street has gone much more pro-Trump in the last two months. Yesterday Donald Trump jr opened trading and traders cheered USA USA USA" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 16:51:13 UTC 155.7K followers, 5358 engagements
"@TheStalwart Almost every ex-politician has high general approval ratings among normies. George W Bush is now well liked" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 23:39:57 UTC 155.7K followers, 4572 engagements
"One possibility is that Wall Street swings hard and overtly behind Trump and older Democrats fade away as younger Democrats try to get votes from the working class" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 18:29:25 UTC 155.7K followers, 4441 engagements
"'Boutique' is such a euphemism for 'Google law firm whose Obama era partners set to run the Kamala Harris White House cut a deal with Trump at Paul Weiss and then got embarrassed about it.'" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 17:44:34 UTC 155.7K followers, 5725 engagements
"Fed independence is purely about hating democracy. Heres Alan Blinder making that point" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 15:41:57 UTC 155.7K followers, 4912 engagements
"I dont quite understand why the Epstein thing penetrates the Trump mystique" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-12 23:32:53 UTC 155.6K followers, 60.7K engagements
"From 1995-2005 interracial marriage between blacks and whites went from weird to accepted. Who you can date when you are young defines lifelong attitudes so right there is a very stark generational split" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 16:50:43 UTC 155.7K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Elizabeth Warren goes on CNBC and defends @ZohranKMamdani against hostile anchors and Wall Street. "Big time investors are freaking out because they can't quite understand how somebody is going to be mayor without having come and bent a knee to them."" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 15:39:43 UTC 155.7K followers, 109.5K engagements
"If Dems win in 2029 the Fed chair will likely be a super Trumper who will sabotage any Dem agenda. That is unless the President can fire the Fed Chair" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-16 12:58:12 UTC 155.6K followers, 20.6K engagements
"Peter Orszag wanted Biden to get rid of Lina Khan and his ideal business model is the government gives checks to UnitedHealth Group to roll-up the entire health care industry. And he helped design Obamacare Everyone is mad because he built a system that only worked for him" @matthewstoller on X 2025-06-26 20:21:11 UTC 155.7K followers, 6468 engagements
"Yes they are dumb but Obama did significantly set back discourse on race by being a horrible President and associating racial equality with Wall Street dominance" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 16:59:38 UTC 155.7K followers, 6807 engagements
"These are some insane numbers on big tech CEOs. XX% of Americans disapprove of Mark Zuckerberg. XX% dislike Google's Sundar Pichai. XX% disapprove of Jeff Bezos. XX% dislike Tim Cook. XX% disapprove of Sam Altman. All are net unfavorable" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 15:03:17 UTC 155.7K followers, 60.9K engagements
"A really ugly betrayal of the Make America Healthy Again movement Trump official reverses plans to ban 'forever chemicals' from drinking water" @matthewstoller on X 2025-01-27 21:52:11 UTC 155.6K followers, 222.6K engagements
"So private equity returned X% last year vs XX% for the S&P. And pe has underperformed every year since 2022" @matthewstoller on X 2025-06-11 16:47:19 UTC 155.7K followers, 15.8K engagements
"I wrote about the iron rule of modern America which is that the stock market must always go up no matter what. We just had a war in the Middle East and all three countries were very careful not to disturb the market" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 14:24:10 UTC 155.7K followers, 24.5K engagements
"Crypto guys are mad at unregulated giant bank now they like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 19:43:23 UTC 155.7K followers, 7491 engagements
"1. Ok so let's talk about socialism aka the state taking over from private industry. Here are some examples you haven't heard of - Kentucky and Ohio - replacing their pharma pricing middlemen with state agencies" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:22:29 UTC 155.7K followers, 45.2K engagements
"Trump swapped his MAGA base for a Wall Street base. If you want to see real Trump worship watch Jim Cramer on CNBC" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 16:48:00 UTC 155.7K followers, 23.3K engagements
"On our current path China will come to design American society. We will not have free speech our communications and transportation networks will be organized to suit the needs of a distant nation-state. We'll become more like Brazil if we're lucky" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 13:00:32 UTC 155.7K followers, 5812 engagements
"In the 1920s FDR was a venture capitalist betting on vending machines and lobster futures" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 15:50:54 UTC 155.7K followers, 33.2K engagements
"Hahahaha oh ok My health care premiums go up at XX% annually but the CPI measures them as going down. Its cool. Wall Street is happy" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 12:16:30 UTC 155.7K followers, 8289 engagements
"4. After two years experts studied the state PBM and you'll never guess what they found" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:26:21 UTC 155.7K followers, 3253 engagements
"The monopoly round-up is out. In it I discuss why Wall Street increasingly sees Trump antitrust enforcers as irrelevant" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-21 01:38:14 UTC 155.7K followers, 3041 engagements
"Cajun culture originated with a small group of farmers living in Nova Scotia who were kicked out of Canada in the 1700s by the English and then recruited by Spain to farm in Louisiana because they were good at reclaiming the land from the sea with dikes" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 16:30:17 UTC 155.7K followers, 9910 engagements
"The later part is even worse. RFK Jr. doesn't know that his agency sets the rates for UnitedHealth Group. Just an ignorant dumbass" @matthewstoller on X 2025-06-24 17:16:04 UTC 155.7K followers, 24.8K engagements