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# ![@worstall Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::79949872.png) @worstall Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall posts on X about money, number of, home of, make a the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::79949872/interactions)
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- X Week XXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXX +62%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +113%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX%

### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::79949872/posts_active)
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- X Week XX +18%
- X Month XXX +43%
- X Months XXX +39%
- X Year XXXXX +26%

### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::79949872/followers)
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- X Week XXXXX +1.30%
- X Month XXXXX +2.60%
- X Months XXXXX +8.80%
- X Year XXXXX +12%

### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::79949872/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::79949872/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  #2949 [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[money](/topic/money) 0.82%, [number of](/topic/number-of) 0.82%, [home of](/topic/home-of) 0.41%, [make a](/topic/make-a) 0.41%, [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk) 0.41%, [metallic](/topic/metallic) 0.41%, [bakery](/topic/bakery) 0.41%, [grip](/topic/grip) 0.41%, [sheesh](/topic/sheesh) 0.41%, [build a](/topic/build-a) XXXX%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::79949872/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"@FisherAndrew79 Cutting stamp duty would lower the unemployment rate. It tends to be the poorer people who are unemployed no So there is that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1975944249657925889) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-08T15:19Z 8339 followers, XXX engagements


"@ATabarrok In the UK gambling winnings are not taxable income. Sensibly of course. As gamblers as a whole lose money not being able to write off losses means the taxman benefits. Also gambling debts are not enforcable at law. Finally taxing gambling winnings WTF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1978899917838881185) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-16T19:04Z 8340 followers, XXX engagements


"@RnaudBertrand Matey. I've written whole books on weird metals. Gallium is extracted from the solution of a Bayer Process plant. We have many BP plants which do not have the necessary extractor. Add the extractor we get Ga. Piffling costs. Capisce"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979262699151208874) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-17T19:06Z 8343 followers, XXX engagements


"To be honest about it I've not heard of an England where 172k children each owned their own home. Or had tenancy of their own home. So umm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979098929758155233) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-17T08:15Z 8353 followers, XXX engagements


"@labourlewis The supposed crime was shagging Virginia when she was XX. Which in the UK is in fact legal - whatever we might say about moral. So why would Andrew be in jail Anyone who wants to make a claim needs to be certain about it - libel laws do exist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979981443569782918) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-19T18:42Z 8352 followers, XXX engagements


"@SealOfTheEnd @GarettJones @ATabarrok @MargRev Both Lynas and Mountain Pass are still producing so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1980156131319382128) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-20T06:16Z 8353 followers, XX engagements


"@_HenryBolton Venning's Law. "The correct answer to any question containing the word "surely" is "No"". Taxing transactions reduces the number of transactions makes the market less liquid. Thus people move less raising the unemployment rate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1976004623048769688) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-08T19:19Z 8342 followers, 1464 engagements


"@TomHCalver Yes it's fun numbers time. But we can also phrase this as "economy with major chunk taken out of it is smaller""  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1977412014701179258) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-12T16:32Z 8340 followers, XXX engagements


"@DanCollins2011 I am actually such an expert. I even got both Lynas and Molycorp right last time around too. On the other hand there is something that can usefully be done this time:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1977643154678640656) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-13T07:50Z 8341 followers, XXX engagements


"A couple of decades back I told @elonmusk that he didn't need to use scandium in his rockets (no really). This advice now slightly changes. He should at least investigate the use of scandium aluminide in the metallic heat shield tiles. That is all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1978495872892596566) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-15T16:19Z 8344 followers, XXX engagements


"What fresh hell of gross misunderstanding is this Someone been watching the Scrooge McDuck cartoons again Dyson's multibillions for example are the shares in the vacuum cleaner company. What's "hoarding" or even "passive" about that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979153585217630278) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-17T11:52Z 8340 followers, 2766 engagements


"@RnaudBertrand Sorry you're ignorant. Ga is produced with alumina not aluminium. Non-China world makes XX million tonnes a year of alumina. Which means 1200 t Ga contained and easy to extract. No it's trivial to do. US uses XX (twenty) tonnes a year. This isn't a problem. Get a grip sheesh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979170939481772452) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-17T13:01Z 8351 followers, 1155 engagements


"@BeijingDai Sigh. US uses c. XX tonnes Ga a year. You do not build a new alumina plant to make Ga. You add the Ga extraction circuit to an extant plant. Non-China produces XX million tonnes a year of alumina. Production of crude Ga is not a major problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979437868188631073) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-18T06:42Z 8346 followers, 1576 engagements


"@RnaudBertrand @PaulKoigi "Greek energy and metals group Metlen said on Thursday that in 2028 its production in critical mineral gallium which is used in smartphones will reach XX tonnes""  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979522282654486950) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-18T12:17Z 8340 followers, XX engagements


"@s8mb Why not just reinstate the pensions tax credit and watch the money flood into UK stocks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979598206208995724) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-18T17:19Z 8340 followers, XXX engagements


"@LupinPooter_ @AdamPugh @TheIFS I just used the Google AI. Do that then track their references. But if GDP is 25tr X% is XXX b. Pop is XX m XX% is 38.5m so bottom XX% each get 3900 a year Seriously that's not even close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979969382081061006) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-19T17:54Z 8341 followers, XX engagements


"@jerryalderson @David__Osland @metpoliceuk That would require Andrew to have been doing the paying. Which I am not sure anyone has been alleging"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979993697585365377) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-19T19:30Z 8352 followers, XX engagements


"@MysteriosoX @_i0n There was one day I had to drive to Lincoln to just by the cathedral close there. Out of Alfred St left onto Lansdown keep going until you see the cathedral. Still works even if it gets right narrow at times. Came back by main rods TBF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979995607566614755) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-19T19:38Z 8342 followers, XX engagements


"@AscendedYield Most of the value of innovation turns up as consumer surplus not GDP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979488774498164947) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-18T10:04Z 8352 followers, XXX engagements


"@RnaudBertrand Ho Hum. This is double US annual consumption. That demonstration plant has a cost of $X million apparently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979522117113975150) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-18T12:17Z 8352 followers, XX engagements


"Mebbe 1028 when Cnut became K of Norway maybe 1016 when he became K of England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979895519637123220) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-19T13:00Z 8353 followers, XXX engagements


"@David__Osland Why The accusation is that he shagged a XX year old. Which is above the age of consent in this country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1979983335460872443) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-19T18:49Z 8354 followers, XXX engagements


"No he's not right. Switzerland has no capital gains tax and inheritance T starts at XXX% and rises all the way to 7%. You can't have all three taxes - wealth CGT and IHT - at high levels because the rich people will leave. Wealthy people will only sit still for so much plucking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1980193192223101420) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-20T08:43Z 8354 followers, 57.5K engagements


"Usual damn idiocy from Reich. Median CEO pay in the US is $269000 a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1980247593176433036) [@worstall](/creator/x/worstall) 2025-10-20T12:19Z 8354 followers, XXX engagements