[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.] #  @julianHjessop Julian Jessop 🎗 Julian Jessop 🎗 posts on X about gdp, gdp growth, over the, inflation the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::42622053/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +88% - X Month XXXXXXX +12% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +1.40% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::42622053/posts_active)  - X Week XX no change - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX no change - X Year XXXXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::42622053/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.30% - X Month XXXXXX +0.96% - X Months XXXXXX +6.40% - X Year XXXXXX +14% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::42622053/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::42622053/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #4259 [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [gdp](/topic/gdp) #2, [gdp growth](/topic/gdp-growth) #212, [over the](/topic/over-the) 0.72%, [inflation](/topic/inflation) 0.72%, [euro](/topic/euro) 0.72%, [luxury](/topic/luxury) 0.72%, [rachel](/topic/rachel) #1303, [jewish](/topic/jewish) 0.72%, [longterm](/topic/longterm) #22, [france](/topic/france) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@timgoldfinch](/creator/undefined) [@dilipshah_](/creator/undefined) [@bermudabat](/creator/undefined) [@huygenswill](/creator/undefined) [@paulgallen6](/creator/undefined) [@theoldman2003](/creator/undefined) [@tumbleweedchase](/creator/undefined) [@rec777777](/creator/undefined) [@dannynolan64](/creator/undefined) [@stanley_walker](/creator/undefined) [@colefusionhq](/creator/undefined) [@arthistorynews](/creator/undefined) [@bobatron87](/creator/undefined) [@andrew_lilico](/creator/undefined) [@billwells_1](/creator/undefined) [@ghostofcorkey](/creator/undefined) [@d_masser](/creator/undefined) [@gaytory](/creator/undefined) [@zenosparadox3](/creator/undefined) [@romfordgeeza](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::42622053/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "By popular demand here's a chart of the IMF's forecasts for GDP growth *per capita* in 2025 and 2026 which is a better measure of changes in living standards than the headline numbers. 🤔 (I've simply ranked them by cumulative growth over the two years) (ps. it's still a mystery to me why anyone thinks the solution to the UK's problems is to copy the other underperformers notably France and Germany or even to tie us more closely to them again)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1978159094948118687) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-14T18:00Z 34.5K followers, 44K engagements "Chart of the Day. 🤔 It's very unusual for payrolled employment not to rise - outside of pandemics. But Labour has managed it" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1977981989148938315) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-14T06:17Z 34.5K followers, 45.9K engagements "Hard to find any positives for the UK in the latest IMF report but here's one. The IMF estimates that the average US effective tariff rate on the UK is now XXX% which is at least much lower than the EU's 16.3%" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1978128317501915237) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-14T15:58Z 34.5K followers, 24.5K engagements "FYI euro area inflation edged up to XXX% in September from XXX% reflecting a pick up in services and a smaller fall in energy prices. Encouragingly though food price inflation appears to be levelling out. (UK data are out next Wednesday.)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979122056378613950) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-17T09:47Z 34.5K followers, 2020 engagements "The lines between 'workers' and the 'wealthy' are blurred and Labour hasn't defined either. But taxes on employment income and regular spending might be taxes on workers while those on income from assets capital gains or 'luxury' spending might be taxes on the wealthy. (2/x)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979132743683371226) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-17T10:29Z 34.5K followers, 2359 engagements "FYI here are a few thoughts on the decision to hold the Budget on XX November which is relatively late but does make some sense. 🤔 Link here" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1963286019333394456) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-09-03T17:00Z 34.5K followers, 5784 engagements "Lots of lazy ONS bashing today for a mistake made by HMRC. 🙄" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1975893774120411211) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-08T11:59Z 34.5K followers, 1915 engagements "Excellent summary of the case against stamp duty (SDLT) taken from today's IFS report on Reeves' tax options. 👍🤓" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1977603996715262121) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-13T05:15Z 34.5K followers, 13K engagements ""Rachel Reeves needs to fill 22bn hole in UK public finances IFS says" 🤔 I hope this figure is right because it could easily be a lot higher This 22bn is based on some relatively optimistic forecasts for both growth and interest rates - produced by the economists at Barclays. It also assumes that Rachel Reeves doesn't try to bump up the headroom to guard against future shocks. On different assumptions a figure as high as 40bn is plausible" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1978702236441022760) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-16T05:59Z 34.5K followers, 24.8K engagements "Rachel Reeves' first Budget provides a benchmark. Last October the Chancellor increased taxes by around 36bn a year on average over the following five years. Of this around 24bn (or two-thirds) came from taxes on workers in the form of the hike in employers NI. (3/x)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979132745646313771) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-17T10:29Z 34.5K followers, 2359 engagements "Options include increases in CGT reducing tax breaks on pensions (perhaps targeting the tax-free lump sum and charging NI on employer contributions) NI on rental income and imposing/increasing VAT on private healthcare passenger transport and some luxury goods. (6/x)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979132752042541129) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-17T10:29Z 34.5K followers, 3448 engagements "@FisherAndrew79 FYI the English fans prevented from travelling in 2024 were already subject to *individual* banning orders. In this case *all* Maccabi fans are being tarred with the same brush. And in reality this is mainly about the threat of violence toward Jewish supporters not by them" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979150213320265985) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-17T11:39Z 34.5K followers, 9202 engagements "If this were just about "foreign hooligans" I might agree with you (just as visiting fans from other clubs have been banned in the past). But the broader context is also important. Those leading the calls to ban the Maccabi fans are doing so because its an Israeli team and/or because of the threat of violence against Jewish supporters. This cannot be allowed to stand" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979460254040519041) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-18T08:11Z 34.5K followers, XX engagements "@max_usher368753 @SonnerSounds Italy's apparently strong performance is partial catch up from a prolonged slump (roughly since the adoption of the euro). If I have time later I'll draw some more charts with a longer horizon to make this point" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979847817603772537) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-19T09:51Z 34.5K followers, XX engagements "This is not necessarily correct and probably wrong. 🤔 It would certainly be misleading to say this correction could pay for abolishing the two-child cap. This is because the fiscal 'wriggle room' depends on what the OBR is forecasting for the next five years not past data" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1975886924880478340) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-08T11:32Z 34.5K followers, 6461 engagements ""UK set to exempt newly-listed company shares from stamp duty" This is good news - Budget set to include a two-three year stamp duty holiday for new listings 👍 (better to scrap stamp duty altogether of course but this is better than nothing)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1973658718291333194) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-02T07:58Z 34.5K followers, 15.5K engagements "Two lowlights from the latest IMF forecasts. 🙄 X UK *per capita* GDP growth expected to remain among the lowest in the G7 in 2025 (0.4%) and drop to rock bottom in 2026 (0.5%) X UK inflation expected to remain the highest in the G7 in both years (averaging XXX% and 2.5%)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1978125412136878553) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-14T15:47Z 34.5K followers, 66.4K engagements ""Reeves signals she will target asset-rich households in Budget" 🤔 A few thoughts. 🧵 TL;DR - last October's tax hikes were split roughly 2/3 from 'workers' and 1/3 from the 'wealthy'. I suspect Reeves will want to flip this split next month. (1/x)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979132741212918251) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-17T10:29Z 34.5K followers, 20.6K engagements "Something for everyone in Andrew Bailey's remarks on Brexit today. 🤔 Many haven't bothered to read past the bit where he says that he expects Brexit's impact on economic growth to be negative "for the foreseeable future'". That has been the Bank line for many years and is nothing new. But he then says that "over a longer time there should be a positive albeit partial counterbalance" as trade adjusts. In fact he suggests this may already be happening. In other words even Bailey thinks the drag on growth will fade over time - not increase as many assume. Moreover note he's only talking about" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979600127573532819) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-18T17:27Z 34.5K followers, 34.9K engagements "3 change in headline GDP since Q4 2019 (i.e. the pre-Covid peak)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979839872996446501) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-19T09:19Z 34.5K followers, 1396 engagements "4 change in GDP per capita since Q4 2019 (i.e. the pre-Covid peak) (the least flattering though still not as bad as Canada and Germany)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979839876758733267) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-19T09:19Z 34.5K followers, 28K engagements "Fiendishly cunning. 😉" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979872700375187533) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-19T11:30Z 34.5K followers, 25.1K engagements "If Ed Miliband announces that 100000 people will be employed to blow on windmills would these also be newly created 'green jobs'. 🌬 🤔 (serious point: it's the "value added" that matters not just the headcounts esp. if workers are being diverted from other activities)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1979892337053724969) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-19T12:48Z 34.5K followers, 9770 engagements "I think this is revealing. 🤔 Polanski admits that the main aim of the Green's wealth tax would be to reduce inequality rather than fund higher public spending (apparently they have a magic money tree for that). In practice of course it would be unlikely to achieve either" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1980037046841344176) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-19T22:23Z 34.5K followers, 9435 engagements "Two problems with the 'Brexit blame game'. X even if you buy the OBR's assumption of a X% long-term hit to productivity (I don't) this is nothing new (it was first made in 2016). So how does that explain the expected downgrade in next month's Budget 🤔" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1980196275871216031) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-20T08:55Z 34.5K followers, 32.9K engagements "2 aren't Labour claiming that they have improved the terms of the deal with the EU and reaped other Brexit benefits including the new agreements with the US and India If that's true shouldn't the OBR now be *less* pessimistic about the long-term impact 🤷♀" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1980196278110912884) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-20T08:55Z 34.5K followers, 27.1K engagements "ICYMI some charts showing what's actually happened to UK GDP since Brexit. 🤔" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1980258868820119755) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-20T13:04Z 34.5K followers, 8802 engagements "4 a closer look at UK investment (same message: business investment stalled in the wake of the vote in 2016 but is now recovering)" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1980316299042623758) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-20T16:52Z 34.5K followers, 1021 engagements "sources: X X X 4" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1980316301701849383) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-20T16:52Z 34.5K followers, 2264 engagements ""Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate" Interesting variation on "shrinkflation" - cocoa content being cut as a result of rising costs. #endofdays" [X Link](https://x.com/julianHjessop/status/1980348105393574397) [@julianHjessop](/creator/x/julianHjessop) 2025-10-20T18:59Z 34.5K followers, 2363 engagements
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@julianHjessop Julian Jessop 🎗
Julian Jessop 🎗 posts on X about gdp, gdp growth, over the, inflation the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Month XXXXXXX +12%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +1.40%
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Social category influence finance #4259 countries XXXX% currencies XXXX%
Social topic influence gdp #2, gdp growth #212, over the 0.72%, inflation 0.72%, euro 0.72%, luxury 0.72%, rachel #1303, jewish 0.72%, longterm #22, france XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @timgoldfinch @dilipshah_ @bermudabat @huygenswill @paulgallen6 @theoldman2003 @tumbleweedchase @rec777777 @dannynolan64 @stanley_walker @colefusionhq @arthistorynews @bobatron87 @andrew_lilico @billwells_1 @ghostofcorkey @d_masser @gaytory @zenosparadox3 @romfordgeeza
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"By popular demand here's a chart of the IMF's forecasts for GDP growth per capita in 2025 and 2026 which is a better measure of changes in living standards than the headline numbers. 🤔 (I've simply ranked them by cumulative growth over the two years) (ps. it's still a mystery to me why anyone thinks the solution to the UK's problems is to copy the other underperformers notably France and Germany or even to tie us more closely to them again)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T18:00Z 34.5K followers, 44K engagements
"Chart of the Day. 🤔 It's very unusual for payrolled employment not to rise - outside of pandemics. But Labour has managed it"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T06:17Z 34.5K followers, 45.9K engagements
"Hard to find any positives for the UK in the latest IMF report but here's one. The IMF estimates that the average US effective tariff rate on the UK is now XXX% which is at least much lower than the EU's 16.3%"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T15:58Z 34.5K followers, 24.5K engagements
"FYI euro area inflation edged up to XXX% in September from XXX% reflecting a pick up in services and a smaller fall in energy prices. Encouragingly though food price inflation appears to be levelling out. (UK data are out next Wednesday.)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-17T09:47Z 34.5K followers, 2020 engagements
"The lines between 'workers' and the 'wealthy' are blurred and Labour hasn't defined either. But taxes on employment income and regular spending might be taxes on workers while those on income from assets capital gains or 'luxury' spending might be taxes on the wealthy. (2/x)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-17T10:29Z 34.5K followers, 2359 engagements
"FYI here are a few thoughts on the decision to hold the Budget on XX November which is relatively late but does make some sense. 🤔 Link here"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-09-03T17:00Z 34.5K followers, 5784 engagements
"Lots of lazy ONS bashing today for a mistake made by HMRC. 🙄"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-08T11:59Z 34.5K followers, 1915 engagements
"Excellent summary of the case against stamp duty (SDLT) taken from today's IFS report on Reeves' tax options. 👍🤓"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-13T05:15Z 34.5K followers, 13K engagements
""Rachel Reeves needs to fill 22bn hole in UK public finances IFS says" 🤔 I hope this figure is right because it could easily be a lot higher This 22bn is based on some relatively optimistic forecasts for both growth and interest rates - produced by the economists at Barclays. It also assumes that Rachel Reeves doesn't try to bump up the headroom to guard against future shocks. On different assumptions a figure as high as 40bn is plausible"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-16T05:59Z 34.5K followers, 24.8K engagements
"Rachel Reeves' first Budget provides a benchmark. Last October the Chancellor increased taxes by around 36bn a year on average over the following five years. Of this around 24bn (or two-thirds) came from taxes on workers in the form of the hike in employers NI. (3/x)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-17T10:29Z 34.5K followers, 2359 engagements
"Options include increases in CGT reducing tax breaks on pensions (perhaps targeting the tax-free lump sum and charging NI on employer contributions) NI on rental income and imposing/increasing VAT on private healthcare passenger transport and some luxury goods. (6/x)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-17T10:29Z 34.5K followers, 3448 engagements
"@FisherAndrew79 FYI the English fans prevented from travelling in 2024 were already subject to individual banning orders. In this case all Maccabi fans are being tarred with the same brush. And in reality this is mainly about the threat of violence toward Jewish supporters not by them"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-17T11:39Z 34.5K followers, 9202 engagements
"If this were just about "foreign hooligans" I might agree with you (just as visiting fans from other clubs have been banned in the past). But the broader context is also important. Those leading the calls to ban the Maccabi fans are doing so because its an Israeli team and/or because of the threat of violence against Jewish supporters. This cannot be allowed to stand"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-18T08:11Z 34.5K followers, XX engagements
"@max_usher368753 @SonnerSounds Italy's apparently strong performance is partial catch up from a prolonged slump (roughly since the adoption of the euro). If I have time later I'll draw some more charts with a longer horizon to make this point"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-19T09:51Z 34.5K followers, XX engagements
"This is not necessarily correct and probably wrong. 🤔 It would certainly be misleading to say this correction could pay for abolishing the two-child cap. This is because the fiscal 'wriggle room' depends on what the OBR is forecasting for the next five years not past data"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-08T11:32Z 34.5K followers, 6461 engagements
""UK set to exempt newly-listed company shares from stamp duty" This is good news - Budget set to include a two-three year stamp duty holiday for new listings 👍 (better to scrap stamp duty altogether of course but this is better than nothing)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-02T07:58Z 34.5K followers, 15.5K engagements
"Two lowlights from the latest IMF forecasts. 🙄 X UK per capita GDP growth expected to remain among the lowest in the G7 in 2025 (0.4%) and drop to rock bottom in 2026 (0.5%) X UK inflation expected to remain the highest in the G7 in both years (averaging XXX% and 2.5%)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T15:47Z 34.5K followers, 66.4K engagements
""Reeves signals she will target asset-rich households in Budget" 🤔 A few thoughts. 🧵 TL;DR - last October's tax hikes were split roughly 2/3 from 'workers' and 1/3 from the 'wealthy'. I suspect Reeves will want to flip this split next month. (1/x)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-17T10:29Z 34.5K followers, 20.6K engagements
"Something for everyone in Andrew Bailey's remarks on Brexit today. 🤔 Many haven't bothered to read past the bit where he says that he expects Brexit's impact on economic growth to be negative "for the foreseeable future'". That has been the Bank line for many years and is nothing new. But he then says that "over a longer time there should be a positive albeit partial counterbalance" as trade adjusts. In fact he suggests this may already be happening. In other words even Bailey thinks the drag on growth will fade over time - not increase as many assume. Moreover note he's only talking about"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-18T17:27Z 34.5K followers, 34.9K engagements
"3 change in headline GDP since Q4 2019 (i.e. the pre-Covid peak)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-19T09:19Z 34.5K followers, 1396 engagements
"4 change in GDP per capita since Q4 2019 (i.e. the pre-Covid peak) (the least flattering though still not as bad as Canada and Germany)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-19T09:19Z 34.5K followers, 28K engagements
"Fiendishly cunning. 😉"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-19T11:30Z 34.5K followers, 25.1K engagements
"If Ed Miliband announces that 100000 people will be employed to blow on windmills would these also be newly created 'green jobs'. 🌬 🤔 (serious point: it's the "value added" that matters not just the headcounts esp. if workers are being diverted from other activities)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-19T12:48Z 34.5K followers, 9770 engagements
"I think this is revealing. 🤔 Polanski admits that the main aim of the Green's wealth tax would be to reduce inequality rather than fund higher public spending (apparently they have a magic money tree for that). In practice of course it would be unlikely to achieve either"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-19T22:23Z 34.5K followers, 9435 engagements
"Two problems with the 'Brexit blame game'. X even if you buy the OBR's assumption of a X% long-term hit to productivity (I don't) this is nothing new (it was first made in 2016). So how does that explain the expected downgrade in next month's Budget 🤔"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-20T08:55Z 34.5K followers, 32.9K engagements
"2 aren't Labour claiming that they have improved the terms of the deal with the EU and reaped other Brexit benefits including the new agreements with the US and India If that's true shouldn't the OBR now be less pessimistic about the long-term impact 🤷♀"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-20T08:55Z 34.5K followers, 27.1K engagements
"ICYMI some charts showing what's actually happened to UK GDP since Brexit. 🤔"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-20T13:04Z 34.5K followers, 8802 engagements
"4 a closer look at UK investment (same message: business investment stalled in the wake of the vote in 2016 but is now recovering)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-20T16:52Z 34.5K followers, 1021 engagements
"sources: X X X 4"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-20T16:52Z 34.5K followers, 2264 engagements
""Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate" Interesting variation on "shrinkflation" - cocoa content being cut as a result of rising costs. #endofdays"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-20T18:59Z 34.5K followers, 2363 engagements