[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @MattBruenig Matt Bruenig Matt Bruenig posts on X about insurance, scotus, has been, tariffs the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::327337127/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +1,007% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +5.60% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +3.80% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::327337127/posts_active)  - X Week XX +200% - X Month XX +35% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXX +13% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::327337127/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.05% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.07% - X Months XXXXXXX +0.75% - X Year XXXXXXX -XXXX% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::327337127/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::327337127/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [insurance](/topic/insurance) 3.23%, [scotus](/topic/scotus) 3.23%, [has been](/topic/has-been) 3.23%, [tariffs](/topic/tariffs) 3.23%, [turkey](/topic/turkey) 3.23%, [oreos](/topic/oreos) 3.23%, [barack obama](/topic/barack-obama) 3.23%, [dem](/topic/dem) 3.23%, [private equity](/topic/private-equity) 3.23%, [excel](/topic/excel) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@matthewstoller](/creator/undefined) [@leehepner](/creator/undefined) [@nordlundmatthew](/creator/undefined) [@rcobooth](/creator/undefined) [@beaglemeister66](/creator/undefined) [@ericlevitz](/creator/undefined) [@mtkonczal](/creator/undefined) [@mateosfo](/creator/undefined) [@saladbarfan](/creator/undefined) [@drbobbydigital](/creator/undefined) [@ddayen](/creator/undefined) [@benjysarlin](/creator/undefined) [@neastws](/creator/undefined) [@austinahlman](/creator/undefined) [@economicsecproj](/creator/undefined) [@rwlesq](/creator/undefined) [@thatflyingscott](/creator/undefined) [@underverse](/creator/undefined) [@antiharrisdudes](/creator/undefined) [@noahgendas](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::327337127/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "@SaladBarFan Of course of the three SOEs Amtrak is the worst performing. TVA is a profitable energy company one of the largest in the country. While USPS is the best postal logistics company in the world. But that's all beside the point which is about ownership versus state power" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1980644331653603350) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-21T14:36Z 188.2K followers, 6249 engagements "@LeeHepner @matthewstoller But these baselines are not real. It's always just multiple prices" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1979239459766833485) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-17T17:33Z 188.2K followers, XXX engagements "@SaladBarFan There is this argument against public ownership which states that private ownership acts as a strong limit on the power of someone like Trump. Yet we've just seen that's not really true" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1980643976723198170) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-21T14:34Z 188.2K followers, 5171 engagements "@BenjySarlin Also the ACA approach to universality was not just defeated by SCOTUS making it illegal to "force" Medicaid expansion but also politically by relying on mandates to buy private insurance that people found repugnant. Fair to be sad about that. But they've refused to adjust" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1980650065011306661) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-21T14:59Z 188.2K followers, 1906 engagements "who came up with the idea of rebranding price discrimination as "surveillance pricing"" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1979208035353370788) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-17T15:29Z 188.2K followers, 31.9K engagements "@NordlundMatthew @LeeHepner @matthewstoller I think it's very philosophically interesting. It goes to the question of how do we understand "consumer surplus" So much of our justifications for capitalism is that prices reflect subject value received but in fact consumer surplus is everywhere" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1979236020127191098) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-17T17:20Z 188.2K followers, 5974 engagements "@LeeHepner @matthewstoller Yes you could define certain variables as always problematic (say race) whether used in a univariate way or multivariate way. But there also seems to be an additional unease people have with multivariate models themselves" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1979236754361323552) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-17T17:23Z 188.2K followers, XXX engagements "@LeeHepner @matthewstoller Maybe senior discount is cool because a lot who use it would be willing to pay full price and we think about their extra consumer surplus. But when we start going multivariate and getting really accurate the pricing doesn't generate new consumer surplus opportunities" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1979241093699866848) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-17T17:40Z 188.2K followers, 6088 engagements "this one tickled me for some reason obviously the biggest thing here is these small business owner vendors are just "price gouging" in the way that term has been used recently " [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1980350815677350377) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-20T19:10Z 188.2K followers, 125.9K engagements "@BenjySarlin From what baseline do we define revision. I am old enough to remember Barack Obama specifically campaigning on a public option which he immediately revised (i.e. abandoned) after getting into office. It's not the left-wing of the Dem caucus that blocks that ever" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1980649172954149224) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-21T14:55Z 188.2K followers, 6715 engagements "I lived in an apartment complex like this. It was nice and cheap" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1980691515241357506) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-21T17:43Z 188.2K followers, 183.5K engagements "@NeastWS @EricLevitz This is actually a good illustration of the different conceptual focuses. In Norway they are looking at the fishers and seeing them as collecting rent from natural resources that belong to everyone. Graham is concerned with making sure small fishers get that rent not big ones" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1981006560672579985) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-22T14:35Z 188.2K followers, 10.3K engagements "@austinahlman Graham Platner believes that the value of lobsters which are a gift of nature that no man creates should be privatized and paid out as super-profits to a handful of license-holders" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1981048819262640384) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-22T17:23Z 188.2K followers, 10.3K engagements "@mtkonczal @mateosfo @rcobooth @EconomicSecProj I was commenting on the welfare state there not wages. Welfare state does smoothing and equalizing should not have any aggregate impact on rents. For instance when we shift XXXX% of wages from workers to the elderly/disabled each month through SS that doesn't increase rent" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1981338675888656385) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-23T12:35Z 188.2K followers, 5093 engagements "Suing the government in your personal capacity and then having the government which you run settle the lawsuit with you for money is the true infinite money trick" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1980733450425364520) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-21T20:30Z 188.2K followers, 655.7K engagements "@austinahlman But of course how something "sounds" is mostly a function of how you choose to describe it. The Norwegian quotes provide very lovely language about the importance of everyone benefiting from our common natural resources. And you could invert those to make Maine sound awful" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1981048104708411634) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-22T17:20Z 188.2K followers, 10.2K engagements "@mtkonczal @mateosfo @rcobooth @EconomicSecProj Likewise when we shift X% of GDP from households generally to households with school-aged kids via public schooling that doesn't increase rent levels. UI child allowance child care benefits etc" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1981339380967936461) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-23T12:38Z 188.2K followers, 1290 engagements "@KelseyTuoc @ddayen X% wealth tax is same as a XXX% tax on the first X% of investment return that year and X% tax for returns beyond 5%. It's interesting. It will be most punishing to the billionaires who are not good at investing or growing their companies and the least to those who are" [X Link](https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/1981557049092686052) [@MattBruenig](/creator/x/MattBruenig) 2025-10-24T03:03Z 188.2K followers, 1140 engagements
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@MattBruenig Matt Bruenig
Matt Bruenig posts on X about insurance, scotus, has been, tariffs the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +1,007%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +5.60%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +3.80%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX +200%
- X Month XX +35%
- X Months XXX -XX%
- X Year XXX +13%
Followers: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +0.05%
- X Month XXXXXXX +0.07%
- X Months XXXXXXX +0.75%
- X Year XXXXXXX -XXXX%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
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Social category influence finance XXXXX% countries XXXX% celebrities XXXX%
Social topic influence insurance 3.23%, scotus 3.23%, has been 3.23%, tariffs 3.23%, turkey 3.23%, oreos 3.23%, barack obama 3.23%, dem 3.23%, private equity 3.23%, excel XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @matthewstoller @leehepner @nordlundmatthew @rcobooth @beaglemeister66 @ericlevitz @mtkonczal @mateosfo @saladbarfan @drbobbydigital @ddayen @benjysarlin @neastws @austinahlman @economicsecproj @rwlesq @thatflyingscott @underverse @antiharrisdudes @noahgendas
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"@SaladBarFan Of course of the three SOEs Amtrak is the worst performing. TVA is a profitable energy company one of the largest in the country. While USPS is the best postal logistics company in the world. But that's all beside the point which is about ownership versus state power"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-21T14:36Z 188.2K followers, 6249 engagements
"@LeeHepner @matthewstoller But these baselines are not real. It's always just multiple prices"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-17T17:33Z 188.2K followers, XXX engagements
"@SaladBarFan There is this argument against public ownership which states that private ownership acts as a strong limit on the power of someone like Trump. Yet we've just seen that's not really true"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-21T14:34Z 188.2K followers, 5171 engagements
"@BenjySarlin Also the ACA approach to universality was not just defeated by SCOTUS making it illegal to "force" Medicaid expansion but also politically by relying on mandates to buy private insurance that people found repugnant. Fair to be sad about that. But they've refused to adjust"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-21T14:59Z 188.2K followers, 1906 engagements
"who came up with the idea of rebranding price discrimination as "surveillance pricing""
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-17T15:29Z 188.2K followers, 31.9K engagements
"@NordlundMatthew @LeeHepner @matthewstoller I think it's very philosophically interesting. It goes to the question of how do we understand "consumer surplus" So much of our justifications for capitalism is that prices reflect subject value received but in fact consumer surplus is everywhere"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-17T17:20Z 188.2K followers, 5974 engagements
"@LeeHepner @matthewstoller Yes you could define certain variables as always problematic (say race) whether used in a univariate way or multivariate way. But there also seems to be an additional unease people have with multivariate models themselves"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-17T17:23Z 188.2K followers, XXX engagements
"@LeeHepner @matthewstoller Maybe senior discount is cool because a lot who use it would be willing to pay full price and we think about their extra consumer surplus. But when we start going multivariate and getting really accurate the pricing doesn't generate new consumer surplus opportunities"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-17T17:40Z 188.2K followers, 6088 engagements
"this one tickled me for some reason obviously the biggest thing here is these small business owner vendors are just "price gouging" in the way that term has been used recently "
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-20T19:10Z 188.2K followers, 125.9K engagements
"@BenjySarlin From what baseline do we define revision. I am old enough to remember Barack Obama specifically campaigning on a public option which he immediately revised (i.e. abandoned) after getting into office. It's not the left-wing of the Dem caucus that blocks that ever"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-21T14:55Z 188.2K followers, 6715 engagements
"I lived in an apartment complex like this. It was nice and cheap"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-21T17:43Z 188.2K followers, 183.5K engagements
"@NeastWS @EricLevitz This is actually a good illustration of the different conceptual focuses. In Norway they are looking at the fishers and seeing them as collecting rent from natural resources that belong to everyone. Graham is concerned with making sure small fishers get that rent not big ones"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-22T14:35Z 188.2K followers, 10.3K engagements
"@austinahlman Graham Platner believes that the value of lobsters which are a gift of nature that no man creates should be privatized and paid out as super-profits to a handful of license-holders"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-22T17:23Z 188.2K followers, 10.3K engagements
"@mtkonczal @mateosfo @rcobooth @EconomicSecProj I was commenting on the welfare state there not wages. Welfare state does smoothing and equalizing should not have any aggregate impact on rents. For instance when we shift XXXX% of wages from workers to the elderly/disabled each month through SS that doesn't increase rent"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-23T12:35Z 188.2K followers, 5093 engagements
"Suing the government in your personal capacity and then having the government which you run settle the lawsuit with you for money is the true infinite money trick"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-21T20:30Z 188.2K followers, 655.7K engagements
"@austinahlman But of course how something "sounds" is mostly a function of how you choose to describe it. The Norwegian quotes provide very lovely language about the importance of everyone benefiting from our common natural resources. And you could invert those to make Maine sound awful"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-22T17:20Z 188.2K followers, 10.2K engagements
"@mtkonczal @mateosfo @rcobooth @EconomicSecProj Likewise when we shift X% of GDP from households generally to households with school-aged kids via public schooling that doesn't increase rent levels. UI child allowance child care benefits etc"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-23T12:38Z 188.2K followers, 1290 engagements
"@KelseyTuoc @ddayen X% wealth tax is same as a XXX% tax on the first X% of investment return that year and X% tax for returns beyond 5%. It's interesting. It will be most punishing to the billionaires who are not good at investing or growing their companies and the least to those who are"
X Link @MattBruenig 2025-10-24T03:03Z 188.2K followers, 1140 engagements