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# ![@TMFScottP Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::468150724.png) @TMFScottP Scott Phillips

Scott Phillips posts on X about inflation, let me, money, $42b the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::468150724/interactions)
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### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::468150724/posts_active)
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### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::468150724/followers)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::468150724/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXX%

**Social topic influence**
[inflation](/topic/inflation) #258, [let me](/topic/let-me) #2033, [money](/topic/money) 0.59%, [$42b](/topic/$42b) #5, [rates](/topic/rates) 0.39%, [$600m](/topic/$600m) 0.2%, [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) 0.2%, [its just](/topic/its-just) 0.2%, [$2m](/topic/$2m) 0.2%, [$1m](/topic/$1m) XXX%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@keenkellie1](/creator/undefined) [@jechalmers](/creator/undefined) [@ginofarms](/creator/undefined) [@taxpawspective](/creator/undefined) [@laface88](/creator/undefined) [@repulicbanana](/creator/undefined) [@mirojurcevic](/creator/undefined) [@fl480](/creator/undefined) [@andrewaqld](/creator/undefined) [@albomp](/creator/undefined) [@starrypiebunny](/creator/undefined) [@aussie242486989](/creator/undefined) [@scotthill222](/creator/undefined) [@tomosakiii](/creator/undefined) [@murgstoday81923](/creator/undefined) [@vongit3000](/creator/undefined) [@qldstew](/creator/undefined) [@harold36089778](/creator/undefined) [@roadsta3](/creator/undefined) [@mackaysuzie](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::468150724/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Let me add some 'day after' thoughts to yesterday's unemployment numbers: - While the 'rate' rose we still created jobs. So this isn't your usual rise in unemployment - The rate at XXX% is still well below the pre-COVID lows. It's not high by any objective measure 1/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978907798202163347) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, 11.1K engagements


"- I suspect that the rush to claim a new lower 'NAIRU / full employment' number was wishful thinking because people just wanted to believe. - I suspect full employment is still what we used to think it was - XXX% - 5%. Remember the 'I' in NAIRU is 'inflation'. We had it. 7/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978907820428058948) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@RobPeffer The origin is worth discussion but past that it's likely that unemployment and inflation are inversely related regardless of cause IMO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978966136877383724) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T23:27Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"Confirmed: $600m over three years for XXX jobs. $333000 per job per year And I'll give you decent odds that in three years' time we're having another discussion about another bailout. We're being taken for mugs - by Glencore *and* our pollies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1975791519400640778) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-08T05:13Z 26.8K followers, 62.4K engagements


"@sage_simian @HardBlockBTC To the man with the orange pill everything is fixed with Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1979133004795482238) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-17T10:30Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"Good. The new Super tax *should* be changed. It's far from clear the Treasurer will make any changes but @JEChalmers please let me suggest three simple changes: X. Start it from next financial year X. Index the threshold X. Don't tax unrealised gains. Then I'm XXX% on board"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1976128282501292357) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-09T03:31Z 26.8K followers, 28.9K engagements


"- The RBA's got a tough choice to make. Historically we'd have killed for a XXX% unemployment rate so it shouldn't be panic stations. But the RBA will be keen to not lose the COVID-era improvements in unemployment. - The problem is those gains were likely not sustainable 5/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978907813662335171) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"There is no small political irony in contrasting the then-Labor government's introduction of private pensions (Super) to replace public ones with the then-LNP government putting part of the proceeds of a privatisation (Telstra) into a national narrow-focus sovereign wealth fund"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1976408413463887938) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-09T22:04Z 26.8K followers, 1376 engagements


"I've commented on this before. The LNP needs to become more electorally relatable and a serious option. A stronger leader and platform might help. or might polarise. Time will tell but they look like a rabble at the moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1975088981705671109) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-06T06:41Z 26.8K followers, 2602 engagements


"Evolution of a scam: Create account under a different name. Retweet lots of my tweets. Change name and bio to copy my account. (Obviously only halfway through. Next steps will be to use my profile photo and change the handle to something close to mine.) Be careful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978311597136158895) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-15T04:06Z 26.8K followers, 2422 engagements


"@Lynne45581429 We could. I'd rather just tax the income at marginal rates (above a higher tax-free threshold for retirees)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978287688311582973) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-15T02:31Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"Want to give the best public servants a reason to resign (leaving lower-quality staff behind) Tell them they can't have flexibility making the private sector look even more attractive. The best will leave. The others will stay. Terrible policy. #auspol (Source: AFR)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1896655550223618252) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-03-03T20:14Z 26.8K followers, 42.5K engagements


"@lattenomics They should act in the State interest. It's just as mad for Qld to throw money at Glencore as it is for the Feds to do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1975679299744346415) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-07T21:47Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"@minkthemink @StarryPieBunny @grok Can you also share how GDP is able to grow without productivity improvement if productivity is an output rather than an input"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978916677321658887) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T20:11Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@MattAjspider I don't think we need to set a number. What we need is a considered joined-up population policy. Then the immigration intake yearly would be a function of that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1976492938101391554) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-10T03:40Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"@MurgsToday81923 Maybe. But even then the odds are good that the concessional taxation would make for better returns. And also very likely that without Super at all we'd be less wealthy. We need to be careful not to cut off our noses to spite our faces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1979017782265086334) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-17T02:53Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"@AggressiveQuant Not really that in this case - the mine closure and the requirement for rebricking the smelter is far more important here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1976101832448754123) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-09T01:46Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@RobPeffer We're running into definitional issues here. I'm using 'inflation' in the accepted use of the term: year-on-year increase in prices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1979012129005924665) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-17T02:30Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"@cat240359 @CraigCampb32624 Yep. And we should collect more in rents and royalties putting the proceeds straight into a SWF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1979009887020499265) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-17T02:21Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"The COVID response was controversial but surely one thing we can all agree on is having more redundancy in the system in case of future crises/disruption. In that context having so little fuel in reserve is surely hard to justify"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978550784095588749) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-15T19:57Z 26.8K followers, 3619 engagements


"Worth adding. Even after this Super is still extraordinarily generous for Super balances above about $500000. Earnings on the first $2m are *tax free* On the next $1m only 15%. A hypothetical $3m Super account that earned XX% per annum would get $300k and pay only $15k tax"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1977631983498121245) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-13T07:06Z 26.8K followers, 26.7K engagements


"While I'm riling people up on energy and climate change. The argument that 'Australia is too small to matter' is both XXX% accurate and also a cop-out. But I'm far from sure about the best way to close that gap. 1/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1977482752799994239) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-12T21:13Z 26.8K followers, 7842 engagements


"- (Technically it's the 'participation rate' and it is very possible just to have more already-here adults join the labour force and have the same impact. But the sheer growth in the labour force (employed plus unemployed) is more than just an increase in participation 4/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978907810231652725) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@mackaysuzie @cmkusher No-one needs to leave (other than those on temporary visas obvs). We can however reduce the number of new arrivals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1977983822441693552) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-14T06:24Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"- If I'm right the RBA shouldn't cut rates in November to try to 'rescue' an unsustainably low unemployment rate and risk inflation breaking back out. Not because they don't want to help but because sub-4.5% unemployment just isn't sustainable without high inflation. 8/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978907823368212706) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Well I guess we know the next bailout target. I hope this wasn't just a rope-a-dope as a way of getting governments on the hook to *also* bail out the fertiliser plant but we'll see. Don't rule out the chequebook coming out again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1976013850395934949) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-08T19:56Z 26.8K followers, 3582 engagements


"@OnTheBe34508868 I don't have much interest in the partisan stuff on either side to be honest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1979010617538179277) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-17T02:24Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"- Of course in a perfect world we'd want everyone who wants a job to have one so I'm not suggesting XXX% is 'good' other than in a relative sense. - On the flip side much/most of the employment created in the past two years has been taxpayer-funded. The economy is weak 2/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978907803482771700) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"This. Ban. Gambling. Ads. Now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1976439142562267614) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-10T00:06Z 26.8K followers, 17K engagements


"There is a lot to unpack here including the distribution of that wealth (across the population *and* asset classes) but. A reminder that Super for all of its flaws (and I would change a lot) is a national superpower. We are incredibly fortunate to have it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978984631765553620) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-17T00:41Z 26.8K followers, 7239 engagements


"@STEVEFI14205588 MMT is I think wrong-headed. Rudd and Morrison can be done without MMT per se but with the automatic stabilisers of a structurally balanced Budget. Yes poverty tbtf excessive profits and lack of consumer protections are political choices. No argument there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978908211420799316) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T19:37Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"@TrippleGav Oh he wants it. Doesn't mean he should take it. Decency at some point should come into play"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1977656927435047376) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-13T08:45Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@Patrick84810371 I thought it was based. I can't keep up. :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1976227323428077702) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-09T10:04Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"'The government' isn't bailing out a $42b company. We are. The taxpayer. Maddening. Protectionism didn't work in the 50s 60s or 70s but here we are again chasing votes and nostalgia. Corporate welfare and a complete waste of money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1975648610277859771) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-07T19:45Z 26.8K followers, 64.6K engagements


"Next domino To whatever extent you *might* be able to argue that the bailouts of Whyalla and Mt Isa were justified they've just created the playbook for every subsequent corporate welfare demand. Government only has itself to blame"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1977458246941380626) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-12T19:36Z 26.8K followers, 14K engagements


"A reference tweet on what we should do to improve housing affordability: X ideas in rough order: X. Reduce population growth X. Tell APRA to use the lending buffer countercyclically. X. Stop (but grandfather) NG X. Return CGT to indexation X. Build more social housing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1962261584430104704) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-08-31T21:09Z 26.8K followers, 26.8K engagements


"Bottom line: As much as it sucks for both mortgage-holders and the unemployed the RBA should sit on its hands in November. Inflation seems less painful that unemployment but its impact is insidious and most importantly compounds over time. 11/11"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978907833883054157) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"He's right - this sort of thing makes me tear my hair out. :) My 2c: People are way too quick to take offence in general. Call me bald Plenty of people have Turns out. it's true. Who knew Sure I could I be offended. But why That's different to *trying* to offend ofc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978223230193164319) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-14T22:15Z 26.8K followers, 5070 engagements


"@minkthemink @StarryPieBunny @grok Can you share the mechanism by which you suggest productivity is an output of GDP growth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978916077871730703) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T20:08Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Image source (and for full monthly ABS unemployment data):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978907837100364186) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@yorgonson I'm not an expert mate but not sure we need to refine here as opposed to just importing refined fuel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978559233642696769) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-15T20:30Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"A(nother) reminder that while the RBA is trying to bring inflation down the government continues to run a deficit Budget (and despite previous headline surpluses has run domestic deficits for years). Some help please Treasurer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978662753892986910) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T03:22Z 26.8K followers, 19.3K engagements


"@LazeSpasevski I know enough not to make predictions. But the choice just got far harder - they have both inflation and unemployment that are each going in the wrong direction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1978760658557559107) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-16T09:51Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements


"This'll annoy the Trumpers but man the hubris and ego of flying to Israel for the photo op is. a helluva thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1977654361250762850) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-13T08:35Z 26.8K followers, 14.8K engagements


"Bloody brilliant. and not before time I said from the very beginning that the plan was flawed. I outlined how it should have been improved. The government dithered but finally saw the light. Took way too long but the right outcome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1977571006186504447) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-13T03:04Z 26.8K followers, 48.9K engagements


"@scottjla @NCC1977 Correct. Or make a lowball offer to buy it - if Glencore really are serious about closing it down they'd take any decent (small) cheque to hand it over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TMFScottP/status/1975792740932985333) [@TMFScottP](/creator/x/TMFScottP) 2025-10-08T05:17Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

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@TMFScottP Avatar @TMFScottP Scott Phillips

Scott Phillips posts on X about inflation, let me, money, $42b the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence finance XXXX% countries XXXX% cryptocurrencies XXX%

Social topic influence inflation #258, let me #2033, money 0.59%, $42b #5, rates 0.39%, $600m 0.2%, bitcoin 0.2%, its just 0.2%, $2m 0.2%, $1m XXX%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @keenkellie1 @jechalmers @ginofarms @taxpawspective @laface88 @repulicbanana @mirojurcevic @fl480 @andrewaqld @albomp @starrypiebunny @aussie242486989 @scotthill222 @tomosakiii @murgstoday81923 @vongit3000 @qldstew @harold36089778 @roadsta3 @mackaysuzie

Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC)

Top Social Posts #


Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Let me add some 'day after' thoughts to yesterday's unemployment numbers: - While the 'rate' rose we still created jobs. So this isn't your usual rise in unemployment - The rate at XXX% is still well below the pre-COVID lows. It's not high by any objective measure 1/n"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, 11.1K engagements

"- I suspect that the rush to claim a new lower 'NAIRU / full employment' number was wishful thinking because people just wanted to believe. - I suspect full employment is still what we used to think it was - XXX% - 5%. Remember the 'I' in NAIRU is 'inflation'. We had it. 7/n"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@RobPeffer The origin is worth discussion but past that it's likely that unemployment and inflation are inversely related regardless of cause IMO"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T23:27Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"Confirmed: $600m over three years for XXX jobs. $333000 per job per year And I'll give you decent odds that in three years' time we're having another discussion about another bailout. We're being taken for mugs - by Glencore and our pollies"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-08T05:13Z 26.8K followers, 62.4K engagements

"@sage_simian @HardBlockBTC To the man with the orange pill everything is fixed with Bitcoin"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-17T10:30Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"Good. The new Super tax should be changed. It's far from clear the Treasurer will make any changes but @JEChalmers please let me suggest three simple changes: X. Start it from next financial year X. Index the threshold X. Don't tax unrealised gains. Then I'm XXX% on board"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-09T03:31Z 26.8K followers, 28.9K engagements

"- The RBA's got a tough choice to make. Historically we'd have killed for a XXX% unemployment rate so it shouldn't be panic stations. But the RBA will be keen to not lose the COVID-era improvements in unemployment. - The problem is those gains were likely not sustainable 5/n"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"There is no small political irony in contrasting the then-Labor government's introduction of private pensions (Super) to replace public ones with the then-LNP government putting part of the proceeds of a privatisation (Telstra) into a national narrow-focus sovereign wealth fund"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-09T22:04Z 26.8K followers, 1376 engagements

"I've commented on this before. The LNP needs to become more electorally relatable and a serious option. A stronger leader and platform might help. or might polarise. Time will tell but they look like a rabble at the moment"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-06T06:41Z 26.8K followers, 2602 engagements

"Evolution of a scam: Create account under a different name. Retweet lots of my tweets. Change name and bio to copy my account. (Obviously only halfway through. Next steps will be to use my profile photo and change the handle to something close to mine.) Be careful"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-15T04:06Z 26.8K followers, 2422 engagements

"@Lynne45581429 We could. I'd rather just tax the income at marginal rates (above a higher tax-free threshold for retirees)"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-15T02:31Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"Want to give the best public servants a reason to resign (leaving lower-quality staff behind) Tell them they can't have flexibility making the private sector look even more attractive. The best will leave. The others will stay. Terrible policy. #auspol (Source: AFR)"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-03-03T20:14Z 26.8K followers, 42.5K engagements

"@lattenomics They should act in the State interest. It's just as mad for Qld to throw money at Glencore as it is for the Feds to do it"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-07T21:47Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"@minkthemink @StarryPieBunny @grok Can you also share how GDP is able to grow without productivity improvement if productivity is an output rather than an input"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T20:11Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@MattAjspider I don't think we need to set a number. What we need is a considered joined-up population policy. Then the immigration intake yearly would be a function of that"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-10T03:40Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"@MurgsToday81923 Maybe. But even then the odds are good that the concessional taxation would make for better returns. And also very likely that without Super at all we'd be less wealthy. We need to be careful not to cut off our noses to spite our faces"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-17T02:53Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"@AggressiveQuant Not really that in this case - the mine closure and the requirement for rebricking the smelter is far more important here"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-09T01:46Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@RobPeffer We're running into definitional issues here. I'm using 'inflation' in the accepted use of the term: year-on-year increase in prices"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-17T02:30Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"@cat240359 @CraigCampb32624 Yep. And we should collect more in rents and royalties putting the proceeds straight into a SWF"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-17T02:21Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"The COVID response was controversial but surely one thing we can all agree on is having more redundancy in the system in case of future crises/disruption. In that context having so little fuel in reserve is surely hard to justify"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-15T19:57Z 26.8K followers, 3619 engagements

"Worth adding. Even after this Super is still extraordinarily generous for Super balances above about $500000. Earnings on the first $2m are tax free On the next $1m only 15%. A hypothetical $3m Super account that earned XX% per annum would get $300k and pay only $15k tax"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-13T07:06Z 26.8K followers, 26.7K engagements

"While I'm riling people up on energy and climate change. The argument that 'Australia is too small to matter' is both XXX% accurate and also a cop-out. But I'm far from sure about the best way to close that gap. 1/n"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-12T21:13Z 26.8K followers, 7842 engagements

"- (Technically it's the 'participation rate' and it is very possible just to have more already-here adults join the labour force and have the same impact. But the sheer growth in the labour force (employed plus unemployed) is more than just an increase in participation 4/n"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@mackaysuzie @cmkusher No-one needs to leave (other than those on temporary visas obvs). We can however reduce the number of new arrivals"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-14T06:24Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"- If I'm right the RBA shouldn't cut rates in November to try to 'rescue' an unsustainably low unemployment rate and risk inflation breaking back out. Not because they don't want to help but because sub-4.5% unemployment just isn't sustainable without high inflation. 8/n"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Well I guess we know the next bailout target. I hope this wasn't just a rope-a-dope as a way of getting governments on the hook to also bail out the fertiliser plant but we'll see. Don't rule out the chequebook coming out again"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-08T19:56Z 26.8K followers, 3582 engagements

"@OnTheBe34508868 I don't have much interest in the partisan stuff on either side to be honest"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-17T02:24Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"- Of course in a perfect world we'd want everyone who wants a job to have one so I'm not suggesting XXX% is 'good' other than in a relative sense. - On the flip side much/most of the employment created in the past two years has been taxpayer-funded. The economy is weak 2/n"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"This. Ban. Gambling. Ads. Now"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-10T00:06Z 26.8K followers, 17K engagements

"There is a lot to unpack here including the distribution of that wealth (across the population and asset classes) but. A reminder that Super for all of its flaws (and I would change a lot) is a national superpower. We are incredibly fortunate to have it"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-17T00:41Z 26.8K followers, 7239 engagements

"@STEVEFI14205588 MMT is I think wrong-headed. Rudd and Morrison can be done without MMT per se but with the automatic stabilisers of a structurally balanced Budget. Yes poverty tbtf excessive profits and lack of consumer protections are political choices. No argument there"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T19:37Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"@TrippleGav Oh he wants it. Doesn't mean he should take it. Decency at some point should come into play"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-13T08:45Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@Patrick84810371 I thought it was based. I can't keep up. :)"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-09T10:04Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"'The government' isn't bailing out a $42b company. We are. The taxpayer. Maddening. Protectionism didn't work in the 50s 60s or 70s but here we are again chasing votes and nostalgia. Corporate welfare and a complete waste of money"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-07T19:45Z 26.8K followers, 64.6K engagements

"Next domino To whatever extent you might be able to argue that the bailouts of Whyalla and Mt Isa were justified they've just created the playbook for every subsequent corporate welfare demand. Government only has itself to blame"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-12T19:36Z 26.8K followers, 14K engagements

"A reference tweet on what we should do to improve housing affordability: X ideas in rough order: X. Reduce population growth X. Tell APRA to use the lending buffer countercyclically. X. Stop (but grandfather) NG X. Return CGT to indexation X. Build more social housing"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-08-31T21:09Z 26.8K followers, 26.8K engagements

"Bottom line: As much as it sucks for both mortgage-holders and the unemployed the RBA should sit on its hands in November. Inflation seems less painful that unemployment but its impact is insidious and most importantly compounds over time. 11/11"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"He's right - this sort of thing makes me tear my hair out. :) My 2c: People are way too quick to take offence in general. Call me bald Plenty of people have Turns out. it's true. Who knew Sure I could I be offended. But why That's different to trying to offend ofc"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-14T22:15Z 26.8K followers, 5070 engagements

"@minkthemink @StarryPieBunny @grok Can you share the mechanism by which you suggest productivity is an output of GDP growth"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T20:08Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Image source (and for full monthly ABS unemployment data):"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T19:36Z 26.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@yorgonson I'm not an expert mate but not sure we need to refine here as opposed to just importing refined fuel"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-15T20:30Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"A(nother) reminder that while the RBA is trying to bring inflation down the government continues to run a deficit Budget (and despite previous headline surpluses has run domestic deficits for years). Some help please Treasurer"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T03:22Z 26.8K followers, 19.3K engagements

"@LazeSpasevski I know enough not to make predictions. But the choice just got far harder - they have both inflation and unemployment that are each going in the wrong direction"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-16T09:51Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

"This'll annoy the Trumpers but man the hubris and ego of flying to Israel for the photo op is. a helluva thing"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-13T08:35Z 26.8K followers, 14.8K engagements

"Bloody brilliant. and not before time I said from the very beginning that the plan was flawed. I outlined how it should have been improved. The government dithered but finally saw the light. Took way too long but the right outcome"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-13T03:04Z 26.8K followers, 48.9K engagements

"@scottjla @NCC1977 Correct. Or make a lowball offer to buy it - if Glencore really are serious about closing it down they'd take any decent (small) cheque to hand it over"
X Link @TMFScottP 2025-10-08T05:17Z 26.8K followers, XX engagements

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