[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, israel, china the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/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: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2030711/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::2030711/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) #4334 [celebrities](/list/celebrities) #3458 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [wall street](/topic/wall-street) 4.69%, [unitedhealth group](/topic/unitedhealth-group) 3.13%, [israel](/topic/israel) 2.34%, [china](/topic/china) #3015, [money](/topic/money) 1.56%, [white house](/topic/white-house) 1.56%, [$googl](/topic/$googl) 1.56%, [all the](/topic/all-the) 1.56%, [jeff bezos](/topic/jeff-bezos) #6, [middle east](/topic/middle-east) 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) [@tarsuspaulx](/creator/undefined) [@ladybearjones](/creator/undefined) [@zohrankmamdani](/creator/undefined) [@ezraklein](/creator/undefined) [@wearydetective0](/creator/undefined) [@zaidjilani](/creator/undefined) [@scandlenjosh](/creator/undefined) [@therealjibola](/creator/undefined) [@drewsmith_33](/creator/undefined) [@orgmoneypod](/creator/undefined) [@rebiii333re](/creator/undefined) [@bhawm247365](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Dominion Energy Inc (D)](/topic/dominion-energy) [CVS Health Corp (CVS)](/topic/cvs) [Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)](/topic/costco) [MP Materials Corp. (MP)](/topic/$mp) [ServiceNow Inc (NOW)](/topic/servicenow) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::2030711/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "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 "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 155.6K followers, 61.9K 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 "@TheStalwart Almost every ex-politician has high general approval ratings among normies. George W Bush is now well liked"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946354286192890361) 2025-07-18 23:39:57 UTC 155.6K followers, 4591 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, 3536 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 "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 155.6K followers, 5588 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 155.6K 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 155.6K followers, 60K 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 155.6K followers, 109.8K 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, 6476 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 155.6K followers, 8974 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 155.6K followers, 20.2K 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 155.6K followers, 5977 engagements "Theres no Dem candidate like @AbdulElSayed"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1947090153685602750) 2025-07-21 00:24:02 UTC 155.6K followers, 16K 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 "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 "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 155.6K followers, 9400 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 155.6K 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 155.6K followers, 8045 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, 9462 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, 45.2K 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 "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 155.6K followers, 81.9K 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 155.6K followers, 115.5K 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 155.6K 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 155.6K followers, 77.3K 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 155.6K followers, 7978 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, 3254 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 155.6K followers, 14.5K 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 155.6K followers, 6519 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, 7859 engagements "Cajun culture originated with a small group of farmers living in Nova Scotia who were kicked out of Canada in the 1700s by the English and then recruited by Spain to farm in Louisiana because they were good at reclaiming the land from the sea with dikes"  [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946246155202867402) 2025-07-18 16:30:17 UTC 155.6K followers, 9938 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 "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 155.6K followers, 643.1K 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 "@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 "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
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Matt Stoller posts on X about wall street, unitedhealth group, israel, china the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social category influence countries XXXXX% stocks XXXX% finance #4334 celebrities #3458 technology brands XXXX%
Social topic influence wall street 4.69%, unitedhealth group 3.13%, israel 2.34%, china #3015, money 1.56%, white house 1.56%, $googl 1.56%, all the 1.56%, jeff bezos #6, middle east XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @thefurlinator @julius24993 @econliberties @mcdonaldsmike69 @legal_nobody @gundo_og @janesquid1 @yobscurities @tarsuspaulx @ladybearjones @zohrankmamdani @ezraklein @wearydetective0 @zaidjilani @scandlenjosh @therealjibola @drewsmith_33 @orgmoneypod @rebiii333re @bhawm247365
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Dominion Energy Inc (D) CVS Health Corp (CVS) Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) MP Materials Corp. (MP) ServiceNow Inc (NOW)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"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
"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 155.6K followers, 61.9K 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
"@TheStalwart Almost every ex-politician has high general approval ratings among normies. George W Bush is now well liked" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 23:39:57 UTC 155.6K followers, 4591 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, 3536 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
"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 155.6K followers, 5588 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 155.6K 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 155.6K followers, 60K 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 155.6K followers, 109.8K 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, 6476 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 155.6K followers, 8974 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 155.6K followers, 20.2K 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 155.6K followers, 5977 engagements
"Theres no Dem candidate like @AbdulElSayed" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-21 00:24:02 UTC 155.6K followers, 16K 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
"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
"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 155.6K followers, 9400 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 155.6K 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 155.6K followers, 8045 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, 9462 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, 45.2K 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
"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 155.6K followers, 81.9K 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 155.6K followers, 115.5K 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 155.6K 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 155.6K followers, 77.3K 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 155.6K followers, 7978 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, 3254 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 155.6K followers, 14.5K 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 155.6K followers, 6519 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, 7859 engagements
"Cajun culture originated with a small group of farmers living in Nova Scotia who were kicked out of Canada in the 1700s by the English and then recruited by Spain to farm in Louisiana because they were good at reclaiming the land from the sea with dikes" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-18 16:30:17 UTC 155.6K followers, 9938 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
"Zohran Mamdani wears a suit doesn't curse is positive and talks policy nonstop" @matthewstoller on X 2025-07-17 19:53:11 UTC 155.6K followers, 643.1K 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
"@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
"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