@StefanFSchubert Avatar @StefanFSchubert Stefan Schubert

Stefan Schubert posts on X about in the, countries, sweden, this is the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social Influence

Social category influence countries 17.27% finance 4.55% travel destinations 3.64% technology brands 2.73% stocks 0.91%

Social topic influence in the 10%, countries #1232, sweden 6.36%, this is 5.45%, the most 4.55%, the world 3.64%, china 2.73%, the first 2.73%, gdp 2.73%, london 1.82%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @grok @tasawarmq @rodpdavison @alert_alarms @sigaliyali @xlibertasbrazil @jburnmurdoch @marcmarc3729161 @chiplomatic @tenobrus @precuneanplexus @ohabryka @nathanpmyoung @elonmusk @sophiaenoch1 @laneless_ @rokomijic @patterndepthq @jeanclaudefox2 @andymasley

Top assets mentioned Intuit Inc. (INTU) Nokia Corporation (NOK)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Despite the housing crisis London housebuilding has collapsed to a historic low not seen anywhere else in the developed world. By @jburnmurdoch"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:41Z 44.6K followers, 127.5K engagements

"@tszzl I love living in an era that makes gwern possible"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:58Z 44.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Any sane person would rather entrust Amanda with the future than Musk"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:47Z 44.6K followers, 1.5M engagements

"@JeanClaudeFox2 @jburnmurdoch @rootsofprogress Actually John criticises the 'deaths of despair' term/explanation and does discuss supply shocks"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:23Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"The fall in international adoptions: in [----] [----] children from other countries were adopted by Swedes. In [----] that number was down to [--]. (Adoptions within Sweden are fairly flat.)"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:08Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@robertskmiles Opuss response fwiw"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:36Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Conceptual innovations are often slower than we intuit. Effective altruism is another example. All you need is literacy basic mathematics and dice; the ancient greeks could have invented DnD. It seems like such an obvious idea with very few prerequisites why did it take until the 1970s All you need is literacy basic mathematics and dice; the ancient greeks could have invented DnD. It seems like such an obvious idea with very few prerequisites why did it take until the 1970s"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:38Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"People often use "research taste" these days for what used to be called "judgement" but I prefer the latter. "Taste" makes it sound more subjective arbitrary and fashion-dependent than it is"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:15Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

""French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary By @jburnmurdoch"
X Link 2025-09-13T09:08Z 44.6K followers, 2.8M engagements

"Since the 1970s old age govt spending has increased while public investment has fallen in many rich countries. By @jburnmurdoch https://www.ft.com/content/b4d2c7a3-587d-440f-a7a9-7e5e85b93a88 https://www.ft.com/content/b4d2c7a3-587d-440f-a7a9-7e5e85b93a88"
X Link 2026-01-23T05:09Z 44.6K followers, 360.6K engagements

"Europe is moving west - most countries that used to be communist have shrunk since [----] while all countries that werent communist have grown. https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakersopen=false#%C2%A7europe-is-moving-west https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakersopen=false#%C2%A7europe-is-moving-west"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:46Z 44.6K followers, 24.9K engagements

"Extraordinary how little support some European countries give to Ukraine. European solidarity is weaker than European federalists imagine. 2) Military aid donors -- share of GDP https://t.co/9K4Ic2pUMi 2) Military aid donors -- share of GDP https://t.co/9K4Ic2pUMi"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:38Z 44.6K followers, 11.8K engagements

"I found a lot of links this week for my newsletter so here's a brief Friday bonus post featuring Anthropic's incredible revenue growth new twice-yearly injectables against high blood pressure and more. https://www.update.news/p/links-anthropic-grows-revenue-tenfold https://www.update.news/p/links-anthropic-grows-revenue-tenfold"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:28Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Took some leading questions but eventually it could identify the key sleight-of-hand"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:36Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"There's more to say about this but brightness/intelligence is correlated across domains This is how I feel about a lot of bright people. A few truly great ideas in one domain and foolishness in most others. This is how I feel about a lot of bright people. A few truly great ideas in one domain and foolishness in most others"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:04Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Lots of people on the ice today"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:10Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Gives the perfect excuse to drop that you're a Nobel Prize winner. "How did the two of you meet" "Well." "At the Nobel Prize dinner in Stockholm I was seated next to my future wife Eva Meyersson who charmed me from the start with her wit and laugh and tolerance for my awkward dancing." - Paul Milgrom on how he met his wife at the Nobel Prize banquet. #NobelPrize https://t.co/409LNvbjxG "At the Nobel Prize dinner in Stockholm I was seated next to my future wife Eva Meyersson who charmed me from the start with her wit and laugh and tolerance for my awkward dancing." - Paul Milgrom on how he met"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:43Z 44.6K followers, 14.5K engagements

"I dont think its insane at all. People dont have an obligation to offer you to buy their stuff. Kinda insane how there are headlines weekly of OpenAI being valued at $800 billion Anthropic at $380 billion SpaceX at $1.25 trillion and 99.999% of investors are unable to participate in the upside of the most iconic generational businesses of our time Kinda insane how there are headlines weekly of OpenAI being valued at $800 billion Anthropic at $380 billion SpaceX at $1.25 trillion and 99.999% of investors are unable to participate in the upside of the most iconic generational businesses of our"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:58Z 44.6K followers, 22.4K engagements

"In line with the Rehn-Meidner model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehn%E2%80%93Meidner_modelwprov=sfti1# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehn%E2%80%93Meidner_modelwprov=sfti1#"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:06Z 44.6K followers, 11.2K engagements

"@lefineder Hence"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:06Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

""It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in [----] and has since gone into steady decline." By @jburnmurdoch"
X Link 2025-10-03T08:06Z 44.6K followers, 1.5M engagements

"Eurozone unemployment has never been lower"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:30Z 44.6K followers, 97.4K engagements

"Why are so many people in English-speaking countries dying early While the most long-lived keep getting older the lower end of US life expectancy has fallen through the floor. But it's not just the US: as @jburnmurdoch shows in a great talk at the @rootsofprogress [----] conference the same pattern can be found in Canada and the UK: It's deaths from external and behavioural causes that have increased like substance abuse or suicide: From my newsletter where I also cover a bunch of other stories: https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakers"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:17Z 44.6K followers, 129.1K engagements

"Is the slow automation of restaurant and supermarket jobs really just about a preference for the human touch Im not so sure. https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakersopen=false#%C2%A7the-human-touch-or-mere-convenience-why-job-automation-lags https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakersopen=false#%C2%A7the-human-touch-or-mere-convenience-why-job-automation-lags"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:17Z 44.6K followers, 112K engagements

"This is a crucial point. Thanks in part to better health people are retiring later; and as a result the situation isn't as bad as projections that ignore later retirements suggest. https://www.update.news/p/alarmist-pension-projections-ignore Ageing does not necessarily mean dependency burdens will be higher than in the past - even in the countries in the world with the highest life expectancy and the lowest fertility. Policymakers must factor in health to understand population aging. https://t.co/2oEo7cm2Wo https://www.update.news/p/alarmist-pension-projections-ignore Ageing does not"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:13Z 44.6K followers, 14.8K engagements

""The top-20 per cent of consumers account for around [--] per cent of sales of products like cookies and ice cream. If those 'super users' end up on GLP-1 drugs you get a non-linear reduction in sales." Sugar prices have tumbled to their lowest level in more than five years as weight-loss drugs accelerate a drop in demand by pushing consumers to ditch sweet treats in favour of protein. https://t.co/sgjoxw20wS https://t.co/NTeJSKC7uK Sugar prices have tumbled to their lowest level in more than five years as weight-loss drugs accelerate a drop in demand by pushing consumers to ditch sweet treats"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:18Z 44.6K followers, 323.4K engagements

"China had more than seven times as many newborns as the US in [----] but last year that ratio was merely [---]. Indian births have also fallen but are still almost three times the Chinese figure. This is bound to have geopolitical implications. https://www.update.news/p/why-we-should-think-more-like-economistsopen=false#%C2%A7chinas-falling-birth-rates-will-have-geopolitical-consequences https://www.update.news/p/why-we-should-think-more-like-economistsopen=false#%C2%A7chinas-falling-birth-rates-will-have-geopolitical-consequences"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:27Z 44.6K followers, 12.7K engagements

"One thing AI is good at is exposing misleading hype claims about AI This year has been one of the weakest labor markets for new PhDs in economics just as AI makes it possible to write a technically competent paper in hours. The break is real. When execution becomes cheap papers lose their signaling power and attention collapses. What remains This year has been one of the weakest labor markets for new PhDs in economics just as AI makes it possible to write a technically competent paper in hours. The break is real. When execution becomes cheap papers lose their signaling power and attention"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:24Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@ohabryka I think he has serious character flaws"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:01Z 44.6K followers, 17.5K engagements

"clear and bitterly cold"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:49Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Across specifications a [--] percent increase in the minimum wage increases robot adoption by roughly [--] percent relative to the mean. Seems to be an argument for minimum wages imo"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:05Z 44.6K followers, 39.3K engagements

"Very cool prediction competition of WWI. Precisely seven years after the competition closed to entries the FT announced: No map sent in is even approximately accurate as compared with the final lines. Strange times from @FT history Two months into what was quickly becoming known as the Great War the Financial Times asked its readers to predict the impact the conflict would have on the map of Europe. As a game. With cash prizes. https://t.co/DImofTPOEg Strange times from @FT history Two months into what was quickly becoming known as the Great War the Financial Times asked its readers to"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:35Z 44.6K followers, 185.4K engagements

"@NunoSempere @NathanpmYoung"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:36Z 44.6K followers, 18.1K engagements

"In [----] UK top 10% incomes were no [--] in the world but theyve since gradually fallen and are now behind the rest of the Anglosphere and northwestern Europe; just above Spain and Italy"
X Link 2025-10-31T06:06Z 44.6K followers, 1.9M engagements

"In today's newsletter: American EV sales have fallen to [----] levels likely in part because federal tax credits have been scrapped. Meanwhile sales surge in China and some European countries like Norway and Denmark. Also in today's newsletter: 1/5 https://www.update.news/p/american-ev-sales-are-at-their-lowest https://www.update.news/p/american-ev-sales-are-at-their-lowest"
X Link 2026-02-03T14:17Z 44.1K followers, [----] engagements

"January was the first month since [----] no one was shot to death in Sweden continuing the positive trend Ive reported on https://www.update.news/p/why-is-crime-plummeting-in-the-most https://www.update.news/p/why-is-crime-plummeting-in-the-most"
X Link 2026-02-04T06:45Z 43.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Slovakia has refused to pay ethnic Hungarians for property expropriated for infrastructure arguing it should have been confiscated after WWII. And it's also outlawed criticisms of the post-WWII confiscations. Sounds pretty mad. https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/02/05/how-neighbouring-populists-fall-out https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/02/05/how-neighbouring-populists-fall-out"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:55Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Government social spending is rising to the point where differences across time are often larger than those between countries: US spending is what the UK had around [----]. But Sweden is an exception: spending has fallen from 34% to 26% of GDP since [----]. https://www.update.news/p/it-is-better-to-be-vaguely-rightopen=false#%C2%A7government-social-spending-is-rising-almost-everywhere https://www.update.news/p/it-is-better-to-be-vaguely-rightopen=false#%C2%A7government-social-spending-is-rising-almost-everywhere"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:42Z 44.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@ArchieHall The tax-to-GDP ratios are a bit different though https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/12/revenue-statistics-2025_07ca0a8e/3a264267-en.pdf https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/12/revenue-statistics-2025_07ca0a8e/3a264267-en.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:53Z 44.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Elite overproduction seems to be the default including among animals; like lions fighting to be the dominant male. There are always people who had hoped for more. I feel like this term captures what's going on in the job market right now. https://t.co/Hm4Vc8rXCs I feel like this term captures what's going on in the job market right now. https://t.co/Hm4Vc8rXCs"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:53Z 44.2K followers, 11.4K engagements

"There are lots of complaints about people being bad at prompting but this paper finds that people make seemingly reasonable adjustments as Midjourney improves. "Without human adaptation users need three times more prompts to achieve observed results" https://www.sijie-lin.com/files/JMP.pdf https://www.sijie-lin.com/files/JMP.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:47Z 44.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@econcallum https://ruthkrishnan.com/san-francisco-real-estate-2025-data-2026-outlook/ https://ruthkrishnan.com/san-francisco-real-estate-2025-data-2026-outlook/"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:15Z 44.1K followers, [---] engagements

"The AI-Covid analogy doesn't seem particularly apt to me. People should be more careful with their analogies (cf all the WWII analogies)"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:41Z 44.2K followers, 16.5K engagements

"@BrilliantMaps If you gave southern Sweden to Baltica in exchange for Lithuania it would broadly match the borders of the Swedish Empire"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:47Z 44.5K followers, [---] engagements

"RT @daniel_271828: Brockman confirming what everyone knew from the beginning - these donations are simply an extension of Brockmans work a"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:26Z 44.6K followers, [--] engagements

"@AndyMasley Claude"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:18Z 44.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@AndyMasley I think it was unfair I mean you said "conservatism" so I don't think you were wrong. But apart from that I think the response is decent (it also said more). My question was "Has there been any right wing ideology with this view since 1900""
X Link 2026-02-15T21:27Z 44.5K followers, [---] engagements

"British and American housebuilding rates have been remarkably correlated over the years but no longer. Housebuilding has fallen in Britain and especially in London where its now the lowest in the rich world due to the mounting costs of regulations. In today's newsletter I also cover weight loss drugs leading to falling sugar prices Latin America getting less religious half of global inequality now coming from within countries and more. https://www.update.news/p/london-housebuilding-lowest-in-the https://www.update.news/p/london-housebuilding-lowest-in-the"
X Link 2026-02-16T14:33Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I predict that any such attempts would fail. Big business doesn't have as much power as many people think. Won't be surprised to see companies who sell sugary snacks start lobbying against GLP-1s once they start losing that top 20% Won't be surprised to see companies who sell sugary snacks start lobbying against GLP-1s once they start losing that top 20%"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:37Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Yes I think in particular the internet. I'd like to see some social science on this; maybe comparing with other technological shifts like the printing press. Overall the relative lack of good social science about these important movements is disappointing. @StefanFSchubert i am guessing both rationalism and EA owe a lot to the existence of the internet & tech philantropy. most of the ideas aren't new. but the people interested in these ideas are very sparse. only with internet and more money & power for nerds has rationalism/EA been able to hit @StefanFSchubert i am guessing both rationalism"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:25Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Seems to me a large fraction of the contemporary right is pretty pessimistic and resentful of its own civilisation The Left compares their own civilisation with utopia and therefore hates it. The Right compares their own civilisation with barbarism and therefore loves it. The Left compares their own civilisation with utopia and therefore hates it. The Right compares their own civilisation with barbarism and therefore loves it"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:18Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@akhivae "39 year old men can just wife up a [--] year old and have [--] kids" That's not a delusion"
X Link 2026-02-17T09:22Z 44.6K followers, [---] engagements

"In the latest data 44% of Harvard professors who retired were [--] or older https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/01/jhj-faculty https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/01/jhj-faculty"
X Link 2026-01-30T22:36Z 43.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Ice skating in Stockholm"
X Link 2026-01-31T12:13Z 43.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@NathanpmYoung @David_J_Bier 🙂"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:11Z 43.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@sebkrier @deanwball Because most jobs are bullshit 🙃"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:43Z 43.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@HMDatMI That overstates any differences"
X Link 2026-02-04T06:32Z 43.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@johnarnold Reminds me of the fate of Nokia 😞"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:52Z 43.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@tomhfh In school in Sweden we learnt British English even though the reason English was the first foreign language in school (replacing German in [----] not coincidentally). was obviously US power and wealth. (Also you don't have to worry.)"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:06Z 43.7K followers, [---] engagements

"After the Greenland crisis led to shifts in the Danish polls many said it was another case of Trump's "reverse Midas": that he harms the right by association. But I think it was really a boring rally round the flag effect to the centrist government where the parties with the prime minister (the social democrats) and foreign minister (the moderates) gained ground. Beyond that there's little sign of a leftward push. The opposition left and right have lost about as much. I think Trump's influence on European elections is overestimated. Yes Europeans do follow Trump's antics but European"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:31Z 43.8K followers, 17.9K engagements

"This idea is common but I don't think it's true. People can understand this type of growth (maybe not the mathematical formalisation but the concept itself). But they often have a prior something will stop it. That may be right or wrong but it's not inability to understand"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:17Z 43.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@davidshor Makes sense. I think some overrate how much its a left vs right issue in Europe After the Greenland crisis led to shifts in the Danish polls many said it was another case of Trump's "reverse Midas": that he harms the right by association. But I think it was really a boring rally round the flag effect to the centrist government where the parties with the https://t.co/0LfirGCiCr After the Greenland crisis led to shifts in the Danish polls many said it was another case of Trump's "reverse Midas": that he harms the right by association. But I think it was really a boring rally round"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:18Z 43.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@Jess_Riedel Yeah I agree. Well put"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:21Z 43.8K followers, [---] engagements

"If thats your reaction - and I think its common - then you should update towards that war not being quite as bad as you thought You read histories of WW1 and it makes you wonder how the countries that fought it still exist. It sounds like an apocalypse like the end of the world. Millions upon millions dead and nations nearly collapsing. And yet there are still British French German Austrian and https://t.co/VJH9qrHjyl You read histories of WW1 and it makes you wonder how the countries that fought it still exist. It sounds like an apocalypse like the end of the world. Millions upon millions"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:48Z 43.8K followers, [----] engagements

"I don't think this is paradoxical or proving the argument is weak. I think some of them would attribute the argument's lack of spread to people having weak rationality. Though in fact I think they underestimate the rationality of key people and thus the societal response"
X Link 2024-10-21T19:05Z 44.6K followers, 23.9K engagements

"It's high variance but it can be excellent. The key is to choose members very carefully; especially since one person can derail the conversation. Be forewarned: If you join a book club looking for serious conversation you will be sorely disappointed. A large percentage of people will not finish the book but this won't keep them from talking another percentage will have no interesting thoughts and the most tedious people Be forewarned: If you join a book club looking for serious conversation you will be sorely disappointed. A large percentage of people will not finish the book but this won't"
X Link 2025-10-30T22:52Z 44.5K followers, 11.5K engagements

"Some superstitious divination rituals may have spread because they functioned as adaptive randomization devices in contexts where people otherwise would have used decision procedures worse than chance. From Henrich "The Secret of Our Success""
X Link 2018-12-01T18:06Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Paper: cognitive ability of top 5% more important for country wealth than mean cognitive ability; in turn more key than bottom 5%. Relatedly is it more important to improve elite epistemics than e.g. fight anti-vaxxers and fake news Worth considering. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797611407207 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797611407207"
X Link 2020-04-11T11:05Z 44.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Bertrand Russell's prediction was quite wrong"
X Link 2021-02-01T23:03Z 44.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Pretty big difference US vs UK in this wave. Vaccination differences likely a big part of it"
X Link 2022-01-16T14:57Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Bertrand Russell: "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts." Also Russell:"
X Link 2022-04-05T13:09Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Mao persecuted the pre-revolutionary elite savagely with millions dying in famine. Their children were stigmatised and were less educated and had lower income than average. But today their grandchildren have regained much of their lead. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/09/the-grandchildren-of-chinas-pre-revolutionary-elite-are-unusually-rich https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/09/the-grandchildren-of-chinas-pre-revolutionary-elite-are-unusually-rich"
X Link 2022-06-10T00:55Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"So it seems the Cultural Revolution didn't manage to root out the bourgeoisie. Something survived and was transmitted across the generations. "The elites grandchildren have even out-earned Communist Party members.""
X Link 2022-06-10T00:55Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I quite dislike the widespread contempt of economics and economists In my view economists tend to be clever and reasonable - including on non-econ topics And economics is imo the most useful and illuminating of the social sciences Its alleged political bias is also exaggerated"
X Link 2022-08-26T17:00Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Lol Ukrainian refugee in Sweden: "All Swedish flats are the same - same IKEA furniture same scented candles. It's like the flats in my childhood's Soviet Union. Sweden is like the Soviet Union for rich people." https://www.dn.se/varlden/ukrainska-uttrycken-om-sverige-du-inte-visste-fanns/ https://www.dn.se/varlden/ukrainska-uttrycken-om-sverige-du-inte-visste-fanns/"
X Link 2022-09-02T19:52Z 44.6K followers, 13.5K engagements

""Societies change their minds faster than people do: Generational replacement is what shifts public opinion" https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/31/societies-change-their-minds-faster-than-people-do https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/31/societies-change-their-minds-faster-than-people-do"
X Link 2022-11-01T09:25Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Non-drinking rapidly increasing among young English people"
X Link 2023-01-09T23:58Z 44.6K followers, 923.1K engagements

"Two main predictors of never having been invaded by Britain: 1) Being landlocked 2) Being Sweden"
X Link 2023-02-22T13:35Z 44.6K followers, 545.1K engagements

"31% of Soviet troops 29% of German troops and 29% of Japanese troops died during World WarII. For Britain its empire and commmonwealth the figure was 33%; and for the US 2.5%. An order of magnitude difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_deaths_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_deaths_by_country"
X Link 2023-04-15T21:36Z 44.6K followers, 210.4K engagements

""In her autobiography Agatha Christie discusses how she never thought she would ever be wealthy enough to own a car nor so poor that she wouldnt have servants thus neatly summarizing differential productivity growth and its consequences." - @ATabarrok on the Baumol Effect"
X Link 2023-07-01T22:51Z 44.6K followers, 57.8K engagements

"Forecasts used to say China would quickly overtake US GDP but that's no longer the case"
X Link 2023-07-15T07:27Z 44.6K followers, 475.8K engagements

"Study found that "within a few months of the launch of ChatGPT copywriters and graphic designers on major online freelancing platforms saw a significant drop in the number of jobs they got and even steeper declines in earnings". From @jburnmurdoch https://www.ft.com/content/b2928076-5c52-43e9-8872-08fda2aa2fcfshareType=nongift https://www.ft.com/content/b2928076-5c52-43e9-8872-08fda2aa2fcfshareType=nongift"
X Link 2023-11-10T09:32Z 44.6K followers, 343.5K engagements

"John von Neumann was born on this day [---] years ago"
X Link 2023-12-28T12:14Z 44.6K followers, 319.6K engagements

"a lot going on here"
X Link 2024-02-01T05:59Z 44.6K followers, 94.5K engagements

"@BorisBartlog It's not percent it's millions"
X Link 2024-04-16T21:11Z 44.6K followers, 50.1K engagements

"@Coscorrodrift It's not percent it's millions"
X Link 2024-04-16T22:16Z 44.6K followers, 31.2K engagements

"Most people are not unhappy Most people are unhappy. So I've spent [--] hours watching Bill Murray interviews over [--] months. What I found Bill Murray's Happiness Formula: https://t.co/N0rNlezMTz Most people are unhappy. So I've spent [--] hours watching Bill Murray interviews over [--] months. What I found Bill Murray's Happiness Formula: https://t.co/N0rNlezMTz"
X Link 2024-05-16T10:48Z 44.6K followers, 81.8K engagements

"@RichardHanania Maybe on the morning train people are going individually (not with friends). People don't talk much with strangers on the train in northern Europe either"
X Link 2024-08-14T15:35Z 44.6K followers, 28.1K engagements

"@waitbutwhy Slightly more males are born but higher male mortality normally means there are more females. Factors that lead to a majority men include sex-selective abortions and immigration (men usually migrate more)"
X Link 2024-08-14T21:08Z 44.6K followers, 98.7K engagements

"Doctor quality matters a lot. Norwegian study finds that replacing one of the 5% worst general practitioners with one of average quality generates a social benefit of $9.05 million. Via @jonasvlachos. https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2022/working-paper/does-your-doctor-matter-doctor-quality-and-patient-outcomes https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2022/working-paper/does-your-doctor-matter-doctor-quality-and-patient-outcomes"
X Link 2024-08-15T07:51Z 44.6K followers, 801.5K engagements

"@FabrizioRomano Looks like he's about to invade East Anglia"
X Link 2024-08-15T21:19Z 44.6K followers, 45.1K engagements

"Reminds me of https://x.com/stefanfschubert/status/1675275959375745024s=46 Londons strange. Theres many seemingly modest aspirations - getting a cat cycling to work having your own garden - that are essentially gated behind a 95th percentile income while luxuries - like having someone prepare you a boutique drink every morning - are common https://x.com/stefanfschubert/status/1675275959375745024s=46 Londons strange. Theres many seemingly modest aspirations - getting a cat cycling to work having your own garden - that are essentially gated behind a 95th percentile income while luxuries - like"
X Link 2024-08-30T11:20Z 44.6K followers, 44.3K engagements

"@dissproportion Eye for detail"
X Link 2024-11-01T19:15Z 44.6K followers, 471.9K engagements

"42% of private school pupils in England get extra time in exams because of ADHD dyslexia or other diagnoses. FTs article focuses on the difference vs state schools but their numbers are also crazy high. This is a serious cultural defect and not only in the UK"
X Link 2024-11-07T23:55Z 44.6K followers, 212.1K engagements

"@ArmandDoma Different European countries differ wildly in this regard. I think it's more useful and accurate to talk about the "baseline in Poland" than "the baseline in Europe""
X Link 2025-01-04T20:04Z 44.6K followers, 110.3K engagements

"@paularambles Writing full sentences would prevent this"
X Link 2025-03-20T18:29Z 44.6K followers, 269.8K engagements

"I think a big part of the explanation for the current meltdown is that the most powerful person on the planet simply is not smart at all. If so that seems like an argument for having smart politicians and against the "first people in the telephone directory" claim"
X Link 2025-04-04T21:06Z 44.6K followers, 35.3K engagements

"How economics has changed"
X Link 2025-05-23T12:30Z 44.6K followers, 311.2K engagements

"Particulate matter local air pollution from road transport is much less due to petrol exhaust than most people think. More is due to brake tyre and road wear. This means the effects of electrifying the car fleet in local air pollution are smaller than one might have wished"
X Link 2025-06-07T08:34Z 44.6K followers, 174.6K engagements

"In the 18th century there was a real chance of death at any point in life and there wasn't a big peak in old age. It wasn't just higher infant mortality - the whole distribution was completely different. Great chart by @Scientific_Bird"
X Link 2025-07-02T20:05Z 44.6K followers, 144.6K engagements

"In [----] humble nails were 1/250 of US GDP about the same as computers today"
X Link 2025-10-25T16:48Z 44.6K followers, 26.9K engagements

"On the contrary kudos to them for funding this important and humane endeavour This is the dangerous path were headed down. https://t.co/IhAUWYQVnp This is the dangerous path were headed down. https://t.co/IhAUWYQVnp"
X Link 2025-11-14T17:50Z 44.6K followers, 43.3K engagements

"Bismarck famously created the welfare state to impede the socialists. But a new paper finds the strategy backfired and instead increased support for the socialists. Via @Nonicoc https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/5989/file/BSoE_DP_0081.pdf https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/5989/file/BSoE_DP_0081.pdf"
X Link 2025-11-15T19:28Z 44.6K followers, 56.3K engagements

"Out of the [----] top scorers on the entrance exam for the Indian Institutes of Technology 36% have migrated eight years later (primarily to the US). Out of the top [---] 62%. Out of the top [--] 90%. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31308 https://www.nber.org/papers/w31308"
X Link 2023-06-07T17:36Z 44.6K followers, 3.1M engagements

"In the Netherlands income is increasingly positively associated with fertility - especially for men but also for women. The result is driven by a higher chance of having at least one child (first births) (Note that the below is measured over all men 18-50 and all women 18-45)"
X Link 2025-10-26T09:14Z 44.6K followers, 164.1K engagements

"Some UK entry-level professional service jobs are converging with the minimum wage. "A growing number of HR firms are now having to closely monitor salary sacrifice schemes . from pushing staff below the legal threshold for wages per hour.""
X Link 2025-11-03T19:40Z 44.6K followers, 82.9K engagements

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