[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.] #  @matthewstoller Matt Stoller Matt Stoller posts on X about wall street, unitedhealth group, china, israel the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2030711/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +40% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +80% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +124% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::2030711/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XX% - X Month XXX +107% - X Months XXXXX -XXXX% - X Year XXXXX +64% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2030711/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.02% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.25% - X Months XXXXXXX +3.80% - X Year XXXXXXX +6.80% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2030711/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::2030711/influence) --- **Social category influence** [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [wall street](/topic/wall-street) 4.88%, [unitedhealth group](/topic/unitedhealth-group) 3.25%, [china](/topic/china) 3.25%, [israel](/topic/israel) 2.44%, [costco](/topic/costco) #92, [insurance](/topic/insurance) 1.63%, [doj](/topic/doj) 1.63%, [money](/topic/money) 1.63%, [george mason](/topic/george-mason) #3, [white house](/topic/white-house) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@thefurlinator](/creator/undefined) [@julius24993](/creator/undefined) [@econliberties](/creator/undefined) [@mcdonaldsmike69](/creator/undefined) [@legal_nobody](/creator/undefined) [@gundo_og](/creator/undefined) [@janesquid1](/creator/undefined) [@yobscurities](/creator/undefined) [@ladybearjones](/creator/undefined) [@justinwolfers](/creator/undefined) [@neeratandens](/creator/undefined) [@zephyrteachouts](/creator/undefined) [@zohrankmamdani](/creator/undefined) [@rudyhavenstein](/creator/undefined) [@ezraklein](/creator/undefined) [@wearydetective0](/creator/undefined) [@zaidjilani](/creator/undefined) [@scandlenjosh](/creator/undefined) [@alpha1906](/creator/undefined) [@bhawm247365](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)](/topic/costco) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Dominion Energy Inc (D)](/topic/dominion-energy) [CVS Health Corp (CVS)](/topic/cvs) [MP Materials Corp. (MP)](/topic/$mp) [ServiceNow Inc (NOW)](/topic/servicenow) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::2030711/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "The later part is even worse. RFK Jr. doesn't know that his agency sets the rates for UnitedHealth Group. Just an ignorant dumbass"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1937560368068591828) 2025-06-24 17:16:04 UTC 155.6K followers, 24.8K engagements "One significant problem with our alliance with Israel is that the values of that nation-state are so horrible and antithetical to liberal democracy that it is ripping apart America's faith in collective endeavors like the rule of law"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946192332212089270) 2025-07-18 12:56:25 UTC 155.6K followers, 29.6K engagements "@DrewSmith_33 In a few years we will sign away Raytheon Lockheed and Taiwan peacefully"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946981137131131037) 2025-07-20 17:10:50 UTC 155.6K followers, 2106 engagements "In case anyone was worried Democrats would learn anything Cooper is XX years old"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1948085249159684255) 2025-07-23 18:18:11 UTC 155.7K followers, 15.3K engagements "5. Yes the new Ohio PBM saved the state and the Federal government money cut administrative bloat and increased the amount independent pharmacies got paid by 1200%. Suck it UnitedHealth Group"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942229027843977496) 2025-07-07 14:27:39 UTC 155.6K followers, 12.9K engagements "@LadyBearJones The board members are the Reserve bank Presidents are picked by class B and C directors aka local business leaders. The CEO of Dominion Energy and the CEO of Siemens helped pick Tom Barkin for instance"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945302978388283522) 2025-07-16 02:02:26 UTC 155.6K followers, XXX engagements "2. In 2018 the Columbus Dispatch revealed that pharma middlemen CVS Caremark and UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx were ripping off the state Medicaid program destroying pharmacies and hurting patients. So Ohio. fired them. And built its own state PBM"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942228054895456764) 2025-07-07 14:23:47 UTC 155.6K followers, 3537 engagements "Of course @JustinWolfers lies Teachout's piece didn't even mention Costco. Wolfers drew his argument from a George Mason libertarian. This corporatist is part of @neeratanden's Project 2029 garbage project"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1948007027772436608) 2025-07-23 13:07:22 UTC 155.7K followers, 5010 engagements "'Boutique' is such a euphemism for 'Google law firm whose Obama era partners set to run the Kamala Harris White House cut a deal with Trump at Paul Weiss and then got embarrassed about it.'"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946264849534632234) 2025-07-18 17:44:34 UTC 155.6K followers, 5811 engagements ""The approval includes conditions barring Synopsys from ending existing customer contracts or denying renewal requests from Chinese clients Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Monday." Ruh-roh"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1944838174045274343) 2025-07-14 19:15:28 UTC 155.7K followers, 5162 engagements "Costco and enshittification. @ddayen and I interviewed Steve Hunt who does customer service at Costco. We talked about what happens when private equity buys out a Costco vendor and which products/services are getting taken over"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947727766348087704) 2025-07-22 18:37:41 UTC 155.7K followers, 6932 engagements "@kenklippenstein Lloyd Doggett is actually smart"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945869525431312570) 2025-07-17 15:33:42 UTC 155.7K followers, 3852 engagements "Also remember the pledge to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. Good times"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1948124985718886726) 2025-07-23 20:56:05 UTC 155.7K followers, 2696 engagements "Fed independence is purely about hating democracy. Heres Alan Blinder making that point"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946233990232391837) 2025-07-18 15:41:57 UTC 155.6K followers, 4927 engagements "From 1995-2005 interracial marriage between blacks and whites went from weird to accepted. Who you can date when you are young defines lifelong attitudes so right there is a very stark generational split"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946976071888310690) 2025-07-20 16:50:43 UTC 155.6K followers, 12.8K engagements "I don't know anything about Jessica Tisch except that she's a billionaire heiress and the police commissioner in NYC. But based on the incessant promotion of her as super important by annoying insiders I'm immediately skeptical. Can anyone educate me"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946986077568237625) 2025-07-20 17:30:28 UTC 155.7K followers, 23.7K engagements "The U.S. government just basically nationalized our main rare earth magnet producer MP Materials and is guaranteeing pricing and customer purchases for XX years. FULL COMMUNISM Now back to our regularly scheduled Zohran Mamdani-bashing"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1943739340028280881) 2025-07-11 18:29:06 UTC 155.7K followers, 60.1K engagements "Elizabeth Warren goes on CNBC and defends @ZohranKMamdani against hostile anchors and Wall Street. "Big time investors are freaking out because they can't quite understand how somebody is going to be mayor without having come and bent a knee to them.""  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945871042938835342) 2025-07-17 15:39:43 UTC 155.7K followers, 109.8K engagements "If Dems win in 2029 the Fed chair will likely be a super Trumper who will sabotage any Dem agenda. That is unless the President can fire the Fed Chair"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945468005867024554) 2025-07-16 12:58:12 UTC 155.7K followers, 20.6K engagements "Of course @JustinWolfers lies Teachout's piece didn't even mention Costco. Wolfers drew his argument from a George Mason libertarian. This corporatist is part of @neeratanden's Project 2029 garbage"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1948012461912633649) 2025-07-23 13:28:57 UTC 155.7K followers, 6489 engagements "Peter Orszag wanted Biden to get rid of Lina Khan and his ideal business model is the government gives checks to UnitedHealth Group to roll-up the entire health care industry. And he helped design Obamacare Everyone is mad because he built a system that only worked for him"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1938331729380471051) 2025-06-26 20:21:11 UTC 155.6K followers, 6480 engagements "Yes we obviously have a democracy but I understand why a guy who lost to Ted Cruz would imagine we don't"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947719128959062209) 2025-07-22 18:03:21 UTC 155.7K followers, 10K engagements "Federal Reserve independence is gone. It doesn't matter if Jay Powell goes or stays Trump will appoint his guy and his guy is going to revamp central banking to put it closer to Treasury. It's over. Now Dems have to start thinking which I know for them is torture but still"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726662323605533) 2025-07-22 18:33:17 UTC 155.7K followers, 23K engagements "Wow $XXX billion for South Park streaming rights. That's a lot of money and it's also going to the people who created it. That's good and it's what competition in streaming forces"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947730329394926004) 2025-07-22 18:47:52 UTC 155.7K followers, 6704 engagements "@RudyHavenstein @GenXBiz Thanks for saying that I had otherwise been planning to murder you and everyone who responded to the tweet"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1948076600592929097) 2025-07-23 17:43:49 UTC 155.7K followers, XXX engagements "Theres no Dem candidate like @AbdulElSayed"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947090153685602750) 2025-07-21 00:24:02 UTC 155.7K followers, 16K engagements "In May Trump said that prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices will be reduced almost immediately by XX% to 80%. The lies and bullshit from this guy are routine but it's still worth remembering a few of them"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1948124923718680823) 2025-07-23 20:55:50 UTC 155.7K followers, 2972 engagements "Yes they are dumb but Obama did significantly set back discourse on race by being a horrible President and associating racial equality with Wall Street dominance"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946978316717621708) 2025-07-20 16:59:38 UTC 155.6K followers, 7477 engagements "These are some insane numbers on big tech CEOs. XX% of Americans disapprove of Mark Zuckerberg. XX% dislike Google's Sundar Pichai. XX% disapprove of Jeff Bezos. XX% dislike Tim Cook. XX% disapprove of Sam Altman. All are net unfavorable"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946224259501621636) 2025-07-18 15:03:17 UTC 155.6K followers, 61.9K engagements "The working class realignment away from Democrats started long before Trump it's quite possible his legacy is reversing it"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945912325799629076) 2025-07-17 18:23:46 UTC 155.7K followers, 9429 engagements "A really ugly betrayal of the Make America Healthy Again movement Trump official reverses plans to ban 'forever chemicals' from drinking water"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1883996451505857024) 2025-01-27 21:52:11 UTC 155.6K followers, 222.7K engagements "Three weeks ago Trump said he'd announce a buyer of TikTok in two weeks"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1948124685490700643) 2025-07-23 20:54:54 UTC 155.7K followers, 3745 engagements "I wrote about the iron rule of modern America which is that the stock market must always go up no matter what. We just had a war in the Middle East and all three countries were very careful not to disturb the market"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946214416841650542) 2025-07-18 14:24:10 UTC 155.7K followers, 25K engagements "3. The Economist writes "AI is killing the web." But that's not true Google forces publishers to let it train on their content or they don't show in search results. It's a legal problem"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947652684791652766) 2025-07-22 13:39:20 UTC 155.7K followers, 8831 engagements "Crypto guys are mad at unregulated giant bank now they like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947019527763460438) 2025-07-20 19:43:23 UTC 155.6K followers, 9465 engagements "1. Ok so let's talk about socialism aka the state taking over from private industry. Here are some examples you haven't heard of - Kentucky and Ohio - replacing their pharma pricing middlemen with state agencies"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942227724560424977) 2025-07-07 14:22:29 UTC 155.6K followers, 45.3K engagements "Why am I afraid of China Well if they define the 21st century it's possible they do a Morganthau plan to the U.S. And that means a lot of us will die because Chinese national security thinkers won't want to take the risk of America having industrial capacity again"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946979149123309992) 2025-07-20 17:02:56 UTC 155.7K followers, 82K engagements "Trump swapped his MAGA base for a Wall Street base. If you want to see real Trump worship watch Jim Cramer on CNBC"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945888227073602031) 2025-07-17 16:48:00 UTC 155.6K followers, 23.3K engagements "Consumer sentiment is getting better so quickly it is almost back to Biden-era levels"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946221445954056450) 2025-07-18 14:52:06 UTC 155.7K followers, 3965 engagements "On our current path China will come to design American society. We will not have free speech our communications and transportation networks will be organized to suit the needs of a distant nation-state. We'll become more like Brazil if we're lucky"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946193371476742403) 2025-07-18 13:00:32 UTC 155.7K followers, 5838 engagements "Intesting DOJ is investigating a ServiceNow acquisition"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946224640835068346) 2025-07-18 15:04:48 UTC 155.6K followers, 3574 engagements "Health care premiums are gonna be up double digits next year because this clown doesn't know he regulates health insurance. But sure Coke in Steak n Shake will have cane sugar. Healthy"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946754878388228304) 2025-07-20 02:11:46 UTC 155.7K followers, 115.8K engagements "In the 1920s FDR was a venture capitalist betting on vending machines and lobster futures"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946236244888854980) 2025-07-18 15:50:54 UTC 155.7K followers, 33.3K engagements "Hahahaha oh ok My health care premiums go up at XX% annually but the CPI measures them as going down. Its cool. Wall Street is happy"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946907062367088929) 2025-07-20 12:16:30 UTC 155.6K followers, 9082 engagements "1. The discussion over 'AI taking all the jobs' has been bothering me for awhile. In 2013 Jeff Bezos was asked about bookselling. "Amazon isn't happening to book selling the future is happening to book selling." Blaming abstract forces is what monopolists ALWAYS do"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947651983982158057) 2025-07-22 13:36:33 UTC 155.7K followers, 85.5K engagements "4. Yes AI is transformative. Yes it matters. But the 'AI conversation' is a way of *avoiding* the actual political economy choices structuring why this technology is being introduced in specific ways"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947652945161687554) 2025-07-22 13:40:22 UTC 155.7K followers, 8623 engagements "4. After two years experts studied the state PBM and you'll never guess what they found"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942228701388624223) 2025-07-07 14:26:21 UTC 155.6K followers, 3258 engagements "America doesnt want to make spatulas they want to eat burgers Jacob Rothman says. Its impossible to bring manufacturing back to the US. Americans who outsource jobs for a living hate actual Americans"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946750734139048057) 2025-07-20 01:55:18 UTC 155.7K followers, 14.6K engagements "The monopoly round-up is out. In it I discuss why Wall Street increasingly sees Trump antitrust enforcers as irrelevant"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947108828136227177) 2025-07-21 01:38:14 UTC 155.7K followers, 6526 engagements "The tldr replaced UnitedHealth Group with a state agency and it worked really well"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942234775315443912) 2025-07-07 14:50:30 UTC 155.6K followers, 7865 engagements "Zohran Mamdani wears a suit doesn't curse is positive and talks policy nonstop"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945934826671886580) 2025-07-17 19:53:11 UTC 155.7K followers, 644.2K engagements "@ezraklein @DKThomp I don't hold either @ezraklein or @DKThomp for what Peter Orszag says but they do tend to refuse to correct their longtime friends and sources making these kinds of claims. So they can't exactly be surprised at the bitter reaction"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1938315718551896146) 2025-06-26 19:17:34 UTC 155.6K followers, 17.9K engagements "Fundamentally Trump and the GOP are fine with signing over America to China. They are oligarchs and if China finds a place for them as rulers of the American province they are ok with that"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946981776531841320) 2025-07-20 17:13:23 UTC 155.6K followers, 15.6K engagements "@wearydetective0 It's not hard. For starters China could stop supplying us with transformers for our utilities. Boom power grid starts to fail"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946983901513101591) 2025-07-20 17:21:49 UTC 155.6K followers, 2029 engagements "The point is that protecting ourselves from Chinese influence is *defensive.* It means industrial sovereignty not military battles. But that's impossible to square with Wall Street and our posture in the Middle East"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946982809588928724) 2025-07-20 17:17:29 UTC 155.6K followers, 9216 engagements "I love Hunter Biden's shit-talking. I don't care what anyone says that man deserves his crack"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1948011466746929608) 2025-07-23 13:25:00 UTC 155.7K followers, 26.3K engagements "Brightline is defaulting on its bonds. Turns out private high speed rail likely doesn't work as a financial proposition. But it's good it exists"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1948028364595380283) 2025-07-23 14:32:09 UTC 155.7K followers, 7921 engagements "@ZaidJilani @ezraklein It's the same dynamic. That's why the donors fighting over Harvard/Columbia was so important. Plenty of professors were cool criticizing Israel. No longer"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946980980851425497) 2025-07-20 17:10:13 UTC 155.6K followers, XXX engagements "5. Novelist David Baldacci had a remarkable statement last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee. He points out that AI firms would fight violations of their source code copyright but seem to have no problem violating his"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947664726093177258) 2025-07-22 14:27:11 UTC 155.7K followers, 75.3K engagements
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Matt Stoller posts on X about wall street, unitedhealth group, china, israel the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Social category influence stocks XXXX% countries XXXXX% finance XXXXX% technology brands XXXX% celebrities XXXX% social networks XXXX%
Social topic influence wall street 4.88%, unitedhealth group 3.25%, china 3.25%, israel 2.44%, costco #92, insurance 1.63%, doj 1.63%, money 1.63%, george mason #3, white house XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @thefurlinator @julius24993 @econliberties @mcdonaldsmike69 @legal_nobody @gundo_og @janesquid1 @yobscurities @ladybearjones @justinwolfers @neeratandens @zephyrteachouts @zohrankmamdani @rudyhavenstein @ezraklein @wearydetective0 @zaidjilani @scandlenjosh @alpha1906 @bhawm247365
Top assets mentioned Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Dominion Energy Inc (D) CVS Health Corp (CVS) MP Materials Corp. (MP) ServiceNow Inc (NOW)
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"The later part is even worse. RFK Jr. doesn't know that his agency sets the rates for UnitedHealth Group. Just an ignorant dumbass" @matthewstoller on X 2025-06-24 17:16:04 UTC 155.6K followers, 24.8K engagements
"One significant problem with our alliance with Israel is that the values of that nation-state are so horrible and antithetical to liberal democracy that it is ripping apart America's faith in collective endeavors like the rule of law" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 12:56:25 UTC 155.6K followers, 29.6K engagements
"@DrewSmith_33 In a few years we will sign away Raytheon Lockheed and Taiwan peacefully" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:10:50 UTC 155.6K followers, 2106 engagements
"In case anyone was worried Democrats would learn anything Cooper is XX years old" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-23 18:18:11 UTC 155.7K followers, 15.3K engagements
"5. Yes the new Ohio PBM saved the state and the Federal government money cut administrative bloat and increased the amount independent pharmacies got paid by 1200%. Suck it UnitedHealth Group" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:27:39 UTC 155.6K followers, 12.9K engagements
"@LadyBearJones The board members are the Reserve bank Presidents are picked by class B and C directors aka local business leaders. The CEO of Dominion Energy and the CEO of Siemens helped pick Tom Barkin for instance" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-16 02:02:26 UTC 155.6K followers, XXX engagements
"2. In 2018 the Columbus Dispatch revealed that pharma middlemen CVS Caremark and UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx were ripping off the state Medicaid program destroying pharmacies and hurting patients. So Ohio. fired them. And built its own state PBM" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:23:47 UTC 155.6K followers, 3537 engagements
"Of course @JustinWolfers lies Teachout's piece didn't even mention Costco. Wolfers drew his argument from a George Mason libertarian. This corporatist is part of @neeratanden's Project 2029 garbage project" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-23 13:07:22 UTC 155.7K followers, 5010 engagements
"'Boutique' is such a euphemism for 'Google law firm whose Obama era partners set to run the Kamala Harris White House cut a deal with Trump at Paul Weiss and then got embarrassed about it.'" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 17:44:34 UTC 155.6K followers, 5811 engagements
""The approval includes conditions barring Synopsys from ending existing customer contracts or denying renewal requests from Chinese clients Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Monday." Ruh-roh" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-14 19:15:28 UTC 155.7K followers, 5162 engagements
"Costco and enshittification. @ddayen and I interviewed Steve Hunt who does customer service at Costco. We talked about what happens when private equity buys out a Costco vendor and which products/services are getting taken over" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-22 18:37:41 UTC 155.7K followers, 6932 engagements
"@kenklippenstein Lloyd Doggett is actually smart" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 15:33:42 UTC 155.7K followers, 3852 engagements
"Also remember the pledge to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. Good times" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-23 20:56:05 UTC 155.7K followers, 2696 engagements
"Fed independence is purely about hating democracy. Heres Alan Blinder making that point" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 15:41:57 UTC 155.6K followers, 4927 engagements
"From 1995-2005 interracial marriage between blacks and whites went from weird to accepted. Who you can date when you are young defines lifelong attitudes so right there is a very stark generational split" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 16:50:43 UTC 155.6K followers, 12.8K engagements
"I don't know anything about Jessica Tisch except that she's a billionaire heiress and the police commissioner in NYC. But based on the incessant promotion of her as super important by annoying insiders I'm immediately skeptical. Can anyone educate me" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:30:28 UTC 155.7K followers, 23.7K engagements
"The U.S. government just basically nationalized our main rare earth magnet producer MP Materials and is guaranteeing pricing and customer purchases for XX years. FULL COMMUNISM Now back to our regularly scheduled Zohran Mamdani-bashing" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-11 18:29:06 UTC 155.7K followers, 60.1K engagements
"Elizabeth Warren goes on CNBC and defends @ZohranKMamdani against hostile anchors and Wall Street. "Big time investors are freaking out because they can't quite understand how somebody is going to be mayor without having come and bent a knee to them."" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 15:39:43 UTC 155.7K followers, 109.8K engagements
"If Dems win in 2029 the Fed chair will likely be a super Trumper who will sabotage any Dem agenda. That is unless the President can fire the Fed Chair" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-16 12:58:12 UTC 155.7K followers, 20.6K engagements
"Of course @JustinWolfers lies Teachout's piece didn't even mention Costco. Wolfers drew his argument from a George Mason libertarian. This corporatist is part of @neeratanden's Project 2029 garbage" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-23 13:28:57 UTC 155.7K followers, 6489 engagements
"Peter Orszag wanted Biden to get rid of Lina Khan and his ideal business model is the government gives checks to UnitedHealth Group to roll-up the entire health care industry. And he helped design Obamacare Everyone is mad because he built a system that only worked for him" @matthewstoller on X 2025-06-26 20:21:11 UTC 155.6K followers, 6480 engagements
"Yes we obviously have a democracy but I understand why a guy who lost to Ted Cruz would imagine we don't" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-22 18:03:21 UTC 155.7K followers, 10K engagements
"Federal Reserve independence is gone. It doesn't matter if Jay Powell goes or stays Trump will appoint his guy and his guy is going to revamp central banking to put it closer to Treasury. It's over. Now Dems have to start thinking which I know for them is torture but still" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-22 18:33:17 UTC 155.7K followers, 23K engagements
"Wow $XXX billion for South Park streaming rights. That's a lot of money and it's also going to the people who created it. That's good and it's what competition in streaming forces" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-22 18:47:52 UTC 155.7K followers, 6704 engagements
"@RudyHavenstein @GenXBiz Thanks for saying that I had otherwise been planning to murder you and everyone who responded to the tweet" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-23 17:43:49 UTC 155.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Theres no Dem candidate like @AbdulElSayed" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-21 00:24:02 UTC 155.7K followers, 16K engagements
"In May Trump said that prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices will be reduced almost immediately by XX% to 80%. The lies and bullshit from this guy are routine but it's still worth remembering a few of them" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-23 20:55:50 UTC 155.7K followers, 2972 engagements
"Yes they are dumb but Obama did significantly set back discourse on race by being a horrible President and associating racial equality with Wall Street dominance" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 16:59:38 UTC 155.6K followers, 7477 engagements
"These are some insane numbers on big tech CEOs. XX% of Americans disapprove of Mark Zuckerberg. XX% dislike Google's Sundar Pichai. XX% disapprove of Jeff Bezos. XX% dislike Tim Cook. XX% disapprove of Sam Altman. All are net unfavorable" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 15:03:17 UTC 155.6K followers, 61.9K engagements
"The working class realignment away from Democrats started long before Trump it's quite possible his legacy is reversing it" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 18:23:46 UTC 155.7K followers, 9429 engagements
"A really ugly betrayal of the Make America Healthy Again movement Trump official reverses plans to ban 'forever chemicals' from drinking water" @matthewstoller on X 2025-01-27 21:52:11 UTC 155.6K followers, 222.7K engagements
"Three weeks ago Trump said he'd announce a buyer of TikTok in two weeks" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-23 20:54:54 UTC 155.7K followers, 3745 engagements
"I wrote about the iron rule of modern America which is that the stock market must always go up no matter what. We just had a war in the Middle East and all three countries were very careful not to disturb the market" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 14:24:10 UTC 155.7K followers, 25K engagements
"3. The Economist writes "AI is killing the web." But that's not true Google forces publishers to let it train on their content or they don't show in search results. It's a legal problem" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-22 13:39:20 UTC 155.7K followers, 8831 engagements
"Crypto guys are mad at unregulated giant bank now they like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 19:43:23 UTC 155.6K followers, 9465 engagements
"1. Ok so let's talk about socialism aka the state taking over from private industry. Here are some examples you haven't heard of - Kentucky and Ohio - replacing their pharma pricing middlemen with state agencies" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:22:29 UTC 155.6K followers, 45.3K engagements
"Why am I afraid of China Well if they define the 21st century it's possible they do a Morganthau plan to the U.S. And that means a lot of us will die because Chinese national security thinkers won't want to take the risk of America having industrial capacity again" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:02:56 UTC 155.7K followers, 82K engagements
"Trump swapped his MAGA base for a Wall Street base. If you want to see real Trump worship watch Jim Cramer on CNBC" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 16:48:00 UTC 155.6K followers, 23.3K engagements
"Consumer sentiment is getting better so quickly it is almost back to Biden-era levels" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 14:52:06 UTC 155.7K followers, 3965 engagements
"On our current path China will come to design American society. We will not have free speech our communications and transportation networks will be organized to suit the needs of a distant nation-state. We'll become more like Brazil if we're lucky" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 13:00:32 UTC 155.7K followers, 5838 engagements
"Intesting DOJ is investigating a ServiceNow acquisition" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 15:04:48 UTC 155.6K followers, 3574 engagements
"Health care premiums are gonna be up double digits next year because this clown doesn't know he regulates health insurance. But sure Coke in Steak n Shake will have cane sugar. Healthy" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 02:11:46 UTC 155.7K followers, 115.8K engagements
"In the 1920s FDR was a venture capitalist betting on vending machines and lobster futures" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 15:50:54 UTC 155.7K followers, 33.3K engagements
"Hahahaha oh ok My health care premiums go up at XX% annually but the CPI measures them as going down. Its cool. Wall Street is happy" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 12:16:30 UTC 155.6K followers, 9082 engagements
"1. The discussion over 'AI taking all the jobs' has been bothering me for awhile. In 2013 Jeff Bezos was asked about bookselling. "Amazon isn't happening to book selling the future is happening to book selling." Blaming abstract forces is what monopolists ALWAYS do" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-22 13:36:33 UTC 155.7K followers, 85.5K engagements
"4. Yes AI is transformative. Yes it matters. But the 'AI conversation' is a way of avoiding the actual political economy choices structuring why this technology is being introduced in specific ways" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-22 13:40:22 UTC 155.7K followers, 8623 engagements
"4. After two years experts studied the state PBM and you'll never guess what they found" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:26:21 UTC 155.6K followers, 3258 engagements
"America doesnt want to make spatulas they want to eat burgers Jacob Rothman says. Its impossible to bring manufacturing back to the US. Americans who outsource jobs for a living hate actual Americans" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 01:55:18 UTC 155.7K followers, 14.6K engagements
"The monopoly round-up is out. In it I discuss why Wall Street increasingly sees Trump antitrust enforcers as irrelevant" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-21 01:38:14 UTC 155.7K followers, 6526 engagements
"The tldr replaced UnitedHealth Group with a state agency and it worked really well" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-07 14:50:30 UTC 155.6K followers, 7865 engagements
"Zohran Mamdani wears a suit doesn't curse is positive and talks policy nonstop" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 19:53:11 UTC 155.7K followers, 644.2K engagements
"@ezraklein @DKThomp I don't hold either @ezraklein or @DKThomp for what Peter Orszag says but they do tend to refuse to correct their longtime friends and sources making these kinds of claims. So they can't exactly be surprised at the bitter reaction" @matthewstoller on X 2025-06-26 19:17:34 UTC 155.6K followers, 17.9K engagements
"Fundamentally Trump and the GOP are fine with signing over America to China. They are oligarchs and if China finds a place for them as rulers of the American province they are ok with that" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:13:23 UTC 155.6K followers, 15.6K engagements
"@wearydetective0 It's not hard. For starters China could stop supplying us with transformers for our utilities. Boom power grid starts to fail" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:21:49 UTC 155.6K followers, 2029 engagements
"The point is that protecting ourselves from Chinese influence is defensive. It means industrial sovereignty not military battles. But that's impossible to square with Wall Street and our posture in the Middle East" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:17:29 UTC 155.6K followers, 9216 engagements
"I love Hunter Biden's shit-talking. I don't care what anyone says that man deserves his crack" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-23 13:25:00 UTC 155.7K followers, 26.3K engagements
"Brightline is defaulting on its bonds. Turns out private high speed rail likely doesn't work as a financial proposition. But it's good it exists" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-23 14:32:09 UTC 155.7K followers, 7921 engagements
"@ZaidJilani @ezraklein It's the same dynamic. That's why the donors fighting over Harvard/Columbia was so important. Plenty of professors were cool criticizing Israel. No longer" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-20 17:10:13 UTC 155.6K followers, XXX engagements
"5. Novelist David Baldacci had a remarkable statement last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee. He points out that AI firms would fight violations of their source code copyright but seem to have no problem violating his" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-22 14:27:11 UTC 155.7K followers, 75.3K engagements
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