[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.] [@JustinWolfers](/creator/twitter/JustinWolfers) "This is sort of a thing and I'm kind of proud of myself. The thing: I'm giving the keynote Boyer Lecture this year. Won't mean much to non-Aussies but it's the leading annual "public intellectual" lecture series in my native Australia and it means a lot to me" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1965555569621659809) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-09-09T23:19Z 277.2K followers, 85.1K engagements "Critical part of the President's new $100000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100000 discount to any person company or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas You know who to call and who to flatter" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1969396255626346593) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-09-20T13:40Z 277.2K followers, 3.7M engagements ""The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on huge investments particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession." -- Me channeling @NatashaRSarin and @JasonFurman" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1977493545922502795) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-12T21:56Z 277.2K followers, 48.9K engagements "There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI. X. Ive barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks. X. Ive invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow its transformational. Position #1 has lower barriers to entry" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1978977604486025474) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-17T00:13Z 277.2K followers, 101.2K engagements "If you're in Australia my Boyer lecture will be on ABC in about XX minutes. I'll wave to you from inside your TV" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1979806152776102142) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-19T07:05Z 277.2K followers, 30.7K engagements "I was just in Australia giving the Boyer Lecture. It's an economist's love letter to his home country. It's also relevant to the current American moment as the main point is to link institutions with prosperity. Watch it here:" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1980304897175392327) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-20T16:07Z 277.2K followers, 68K engagements ""deals" are out. they're not even letters" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1951062125666771144) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-07-31T23:27Z 277.2K followers, 170.5K engagements "A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences which play out slowly. On average incomes fall behind by nearly XX% over XX years. For the U.S. this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime that's million bucks" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1960345263068881306) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-08-26T14:15Z 277.2K followers, 195K engagements "Just a reminder that the Constitution gives Congress the power to set tariffs. It could end this madness any day they chose to discover their power" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1976690352393191787) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-10T16:44Z 277.2K followers, 148.8K engagements "@TheCaptain690n Yup" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1980257176565219462) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-20T12:57Z 277.2K followers, XX engagements "There's a decent chance that the Supremes will strike down Trumps extra special brand new XXX% China tariff as unconstitutional. And so it's doubly notable how much markets panicked despite the (roughly) XX% chance it wont happen" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1977341543225663962) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-12T11:52Z 277.2K followers, 237.3K engagements "Just finished up the audio-first version of my Boyer Lectures. Hopefully youll itll tickle some neurons. Should drop here sometime later this week (I think October 19):" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1977910384129409458) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-14T01:32Z 277.2K followers, 26.7K engagements "Hey there's my favorite economist @BetseyStevenson podding with superstar @karaswisher talking about how AI will shape the future of work. Self recommending" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1978965723176185948) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-16T23:26Z 277.2K followers, 21.1K engagements "The shutdown keeps dragging on this line keeps going up and prediction markets now suggest that it's more likely than not this will be the longest government shutdown in US history (previous record XX days)" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1979085837745684796) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-17T07:23Z 277.2K followers, 15.2K engagements "Calling bubbles in real time is like trying to spot the top of Mount Everest while youre still climbing. You only realize it was the peak when you start going downhill. Its possible AI is in a bubble. Its also possible we're on the cusp of a genuine technological revolution. Anyone who expresses certainty. shouldn't" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1979878244762423468) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-19T11:52Z 277.2K followers, 55.3K engagements "We're in the egg shortage phase of the electricity market. AI is hungry for power so prices rise. But higher prices invite new investmentand more generation. Give it time and the market will hatch more watts" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1979893081676616072) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-19T12:51Z 277.2K followers, 40.8K engagements "American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1980431901824369123) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-21T00:32Z 277.2K followers, 40.9K engagements "My dear grandmother was a geologist and it would have given her great joy to hear her grandson digging into rare earth minerals finding out what they do and why they matter. But for everyone else it's a drag the trade war equivalent of learning about the latest covid variant" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1977356392227848687) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-12T12:51Z 277.2K followers, 43.3K engagements "Thinking about this from a U.S. perspective: If our neighbors have been ripping us off as Trump insists then not trading with them must be good for the US. But when you actually spend a moment thinking about it it sounds like an utterly absurd economic strategy 🤔" [X Link](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1981337034728854010) [@JustinWolfers](/creator/x/JustinWolfers) 2025-10-23T12:28Z 277.2K followers, 37K engagements
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@JustinWolfers
"This is sort of a thing and I'm kind of proud of myself. The thing: I'm giving the keynote Boyer Lecture this year. Won't mean much to non-Aussies but it's the leading annual "public intellectual" lecture series in my native Australia and it means a lot to me"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-09-09T23:19Z 277.2K followers, 85.1K engagements
"Critical part of the President's new $100000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100000 discount to any person company or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas You know who to call and who to flatter"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-09-20T13:40Z 277.2K followers, 3.7M engagements
""The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on huge investments particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession." -- Me channeling @NatashaRSarin and @JasonFurman"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-12T21:56Z 277.2K followers, 48.9K engagements
"There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI. X. Ive barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks. X. Ive invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow its transformational. Position #1 has lower barriers to entry"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-17T00:13Z 277.2K followers, 101.2K engagements
"If you're in Australia my Boyer lecture will be on ABC in about XX minutes. I'll wave to you from inside your TV"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-19T07:05Z 277.2K followers, 30.7K engagements
"I was just in Australia giving the Boyer Lecture. It's an economist's love letter to his home country. It's also relevant to the current American moment as the main point is to link institutions with prosperity. Watch it here:"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-20T16:07Z 277.2K followers, 68K engagements
""deals" are out. they're not even letters"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-07-31T23:27Z 277.2K followers, 170.5K engagements
"A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences which play out slowly. On average incomes fall behind by nearly XX% over XX years. For the U.S. this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime that's million bucks"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-08-26T14:15Z 277.2K followers, 195K engagements
"Just a reminder that the Constitution gives Congress the power to set tariffs. It could end this madness any day they chose to discover their power"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-10T16:44Z 277.2K followers, 148.8K engagements
"@TheCaptain690n Yup"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-20T12:57Z 277.2K followers, XX engagements
"There's a decent chance that the Supremes will strike down Trumps extra special brand new XXX% China tariff as unconstitutional. And so it's doubly notable how much markets panicked despite the (roughly) XX% chance it wont happen"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-12T11:52Z 277.2K followers, 237.3K engagements
"Just finished up the audio-first version of my Boyer Lectures. Hopefully youll itll tickle some neurons. Should drop here sometime later this week (I think October 19):"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-14T01:32Z 277.2K followers, 26.7K engagements
"Hey there's my favorite economist @BetseyStevenson podding with superstar @karaswisher talking about how AI will shape the future of work. Self recommending"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-16T23:26Z 277.2K followers, 21.1K engagements
"The shutdown keeps dragging on this line keeps going up and prediction markets now suggest that it's more likely than not this will be the longest government shutdown in US history (previous record XX days)"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-17T07:23Z 277.2K followers, 15.2K engagements
"Calling bubbles in real time is like trying to spot the top of Mount Everest while youre still climbing. You only realize it was the peak when you start going downhill. Its possible AI is in a bubble. Its also possible we're on the cusp of a genuine technological revolution. Anyone who expresses certainty. shouldn't"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-19T11:52Z 277.2K followers, 55.3K engagements
"We're in the egg shortage phase of the electricity market. AI is hungry for power so prices rise. But higher prices invite new investmentand more generation. Give it time and the market will hatch more watts"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-19T12:51Z 277.2K followers, 40.8K engagements
"American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-21T00:32Z 277.2K followers, 40.9K engagements
"My dear grandmother was a geologist and it would have given her great joy to hear her grandson digging into rare earth minerals finding out what they do and why they matter. But for everyone else it's a drag the trade war equivalent of learning about the latest covid variant"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-12T12:51Z 277.2K followers, 43.3K engagements
"Thinking about this from a U.S. perspective: If our neighbors have been ripping us off as Trump insists then not trading with them must be good for the US. But when you actually spend a moment thinking about it it sounds like an utterly absurd economic strategy 🤔"
X Link @JustinWolfers 2025-10-23T12:28Z 277.2K followers, 37K engagements
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