Macroeconomic Thinker & Financial Markets Analyst. African Nationalist. Author Zero Equilibrium (@0Equilibrium). Muslim. Love God, Family, Country and Celtics☘️
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When Nigeria speaks, the world actually listens.
It's not just saying the things they want to hear.
And,
It's not carrying itself in the way it's status requires.
A deadbeat Dad isn't unimportant, he just failed or in this case, failing in an important role.
#Nigeriawillrise
"If your conviction cannot survive a simple question, what exactly do you believe in?"
There is no better way to put this. Cause I don't know about dem man, but ISLAM stands up to scrutiny everything and comes out on top, for them that understand. It would be almost impossible to find many born Muslims willing to do what I can have and will still do for the cause.
Allah looked at billions of Kuffar in the world and singled me out. Most were just born into Islam and practice out of convenience. I lost friends, some family (extended), and alost my life. I'm from a place where you're looked at with suspicion if you're Muslim.
😂😂 Exactly! Some born Muslims will defend anything as long as they can attach it to the Prophet or a scripture. Ask them a simple question and they start shouting instead of thinking. As if asking questions is a crime. If your conviction cannot survive a simple question, what exactly do you believe in?
Chinedu Muhammad Okoye☘️ retweeted
😂😂 Exactly! Some born Muslims will defend anything as long as they can attach it to the Prophet or a scripture. Ask them a simple question and they start shouting instead of thinking. As if asking questions is a crime. If your conviction cannot survive a simple question, what exactly do you believe in?
Still recall one time I entered a bike in my hood, stopped over at Marouf's shop. I know my Hausa is poor, but we had agreed on N300, 'Deri Uku', I specified clearly. We get there, and bro switches up, says it was N500.
Now, normally, I wouldn't like to fuss, but not when there was an explicit agreement. Marouf comes out asks, story gets narrated. Marouf asks the man in Hausa if it was really 300 we agreed on, the fool even swore. Marouf stepped into his shop to get N200 to give him.
Then he said something very stupid. I told him I will.gove him the money, but she there's God? (Akwai Allah ko?), and man said something ending in Nyammiri and 'arne' (Marouf would later explain to me that he said: Nyammiri does not know God, cause you're infidiels).
That was when Marouf lost it. And the followup action became something I couldn't control. See, Marouf has a standing in the neighbourhood, he caters to the Maskjid, has three shops, has a Keke and like 5 bikes working for him. He is cousins with the Nike.m3ns associations leader. So when he began with the slaps, someone arund just came in quietly and tok the keys off ignition.
In less than 6-7 minutes my man was on the floor, bleeding and crying saying "ban se ni ba" (I did not know). Marouf asked him to apologise to me, he did. The Bike men that stpped were mere soectators (you wouldn't DARE cross Marouf if you're a nuke or kele or even shop owner in this hood.
All he did was call me an unbeliever. Amd his fellow Arewa born Muslims ensured he got what he asked for. Sometimes I wish here X Bants were on sight in my hood or even Area 1. See, bros, you go too collect. 😆 🤣 😂
Demand never really declined. Supply did.
Chinedu Muhammad Okoye☘️ retweeted
Before adding another certificate to your CV, ask what opportunity it could realistically help you access.
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It won't be forgotten Ty. This is a very personal and detailed exposition of what it feels like when you try to bring reason and empirical validation, to a discipline dominated by teleology and ideology.
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A little background for my post-Keynesian and MMT friends, and an explanation of what the fuck I've been doing on this account for the last six weeks.
Back in 2022, I met Steve Keen on a random livestream and ended up showing him a rather sophisticated pandemic model for Covid-19 I had developed for British Columbia, Canada, using his system dynamics software, Ravel. I had actually started using his software back in 2017, when I was working at a box factory and experimenting with ways to optimize productivity through system dynamics modeling.
Around the same time I first met Steve on that stream in 2022, I opened this Twitter account. I also started a YouTube channel producing system dynamics modeling tutorials, primarily focused on macroeconomics. Before that, I had deleted Facebook, Instagram, and pretty much every other social media account I had back in 2017 because I couldn't stand that shit anymore. "Just when I thought I got out, they pulled me right back in!"
In 2023, I began developing a large national economic model that led to a lot of unique opportunities and rebranded myself as Relearning Economics. I started posting historical economic quotes, which eventually became a regular feature of the account. Interestingly, quite a few accounts doing the same thing today appeared after I started doing it. Unfortunately, most of them turned out to be libertarian accounts.
Along the way, I met a tremendous number of economists, researchers, and systems thinkers. Those connections eventually turned into a steady side income from economic modeling contracts. Over time, I accumulated a substantial collection of unpublished models, experiments, and research that I wanted to make publicly available.
That eventually led to GDP Dynamics.
I launched @GDPDynamics and its corresponding website this past summer as a home for my economic models, forecasts, and research. Much of the forecasting and modeling work is available to the public for free, while a premium membership provides more detailed analysis and additional research. It has already developed into another source of income, allowing me to spend more time doing what I actually enjoy: building economic models.
Around the same time, I decided to retire the Relearning Economics identity, return to using my legal name on Twitter, and establish GDP Dynamics as a separate brand. Besides when you have the last name Keynes and you work in the field of economics, I could I have not returned to it. Another factor was the release of my book, Beyond Equilibrium: A dynamic Keynesian Approach to Macroeconomics.
After two and a half years, posting historical economic quotes had become rather dated and redundant relative to what I was trying to accomplish. It certainly helped build an audience, but it also came with an enormous amount of bullshit.
For nearly two years, I dealt with a constant stream of Austrian economists and libertarians attacking practically anything I posted. Share a John Maynard Keynes quote and suddenly you're accused of supporting pedophilia. Discuss fiscal policy and you're a communist. Apparently, I'm a communist despite spending a considerable amount of my spare time developing software, negotiating contracts, selling economic modeling services, and running a business. Some days I feel like the most oppressed entrepreneur in economics.
The personal attacks were relentless. I received countless threats of violence from anonymous keyboard warriors, none of whom I took particularly seriously. Nevertheless, dealing with that shit almost every day for a couple of years becomes exhausting.
And this brings me to my Post-Keynesian and MMT followers.
I've watched how our side of the economics community has been treated, particularly by the Austrian and libertarian crowd. The constant insults, accusations, and personal attacks. Being called retards, faggots, woke libtards, communists, and just about every other insult these people can manage to string together. I've seen perfectly reasonable economic discussions turn into absolute cesspools because somebody dared to question the intellectual foundations of Austrian economics.
When I returned to using my legal name and separated the GDP Dynamics brand from my personal account, I had a little social experiment in mind.
Social media has become a clickbait shithole, populated by countless little ideological echo chambers. People spend more time defending their intellectual tribes than actually learning anything. In my case I find it particularly frustrating because I'm in the business of economic forecasting, not abstract fuckery.
So, beginning September 15th, I started a calculated campaign of what I would describe as chud-style economic ragebait, primarily directed at Austrian economists and libertarians, with the occasional shot at New Keynesians and neoclassical economists.
Over the following six weeks, those posts generated millions of impressions.
There were three reasons for doing this.
First, I'm fascinated by how systems behave. That's probably obvious considering I spend a substantial amount of my life building nonlinear dynamic models. Social media is itself a complex system of feedback loops, reinforcement mechanisms, incentives, and emergent behavior. I wanted to see what would happen if I deliberately changed the nature of the content being introduced into that system.
Second, I wanted to change the composition of my audience. My historical quote posting had attracted what I estimated to be somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 Austrian and libertarian followers who had very little interest in my actual economic modeling work. I wanted to shed much of that audience and develop a healthier balance of people genuinely interested in macroeconomics, system dynamics, and the research I publish.
Based on the substantial follower turnover I've observed in my X Premium analytics over the past six weeks, that objective appears to have been achieved.
Third, and perhaps most importantly, I wanted to return some of the bullshit that I and many others in the post-Keynesian and MMT communities have endured on this platform which specifically accelerated after Musk took over.
After two years of watching these people casually throw around personal insults, threats, and accusations, I figured it might be entertaining to give them a taste of their own medicine.
Judging by the extraordinary amount of crybaby fuckery coming from libertarians over the past six weeks, I can say that particular objective has been rather satisfying. Those folk might be more woke than the woke woke(s)...
But there is also a more serious observation here.
What this experience has reinforced for me is just how ineffective social media can be as a platform for distributing substantive intellectual work. You can spend months developing an economic model, testing its behavior, validating its results, and writing a detailed explanation, only to reach a fraction of the audience that a deliberately provocative two-sentence post can attract in a few hours. Sadly this post that I have put effort into will mean little to nothing in a few hours and will probably get very low engagement because it's to long and complex for the TikTok generation.
The incentives overwhelmingly favor emotional reactions, ideological conflict, and instant gratification over research and meaningful discussion. Millions of impressions do not necessarily translate into people reading your work, understanding your models, or engaging with the underlying economics.
This is one of the reasons I established GDP Dynamics as an independent platform. I would rather have a smaller audience genuinely interested in my research than millions of impressions from people arguing about something they haven't bothered to understand.
And for anyone wondering whether I've become permanently consumed by Twitter/X ragebait, I can assure you I haven't. Will I stop, I don't know, If George Selgin gets any more emotionally damaged by my posts about David Graeber, he might end up on Prozac or some other antidepressant and if that's the case I will never stop.
In real life, I ride downhill mountain bikes for excitement, work on economic models, consulting work and run the GDP Dynamics site. As a Canadian I go to a lot of hockey games, say "eh" a lot and cut down trees with and axe. I'm probably more libertarian than a libertarian
Most of the stupid shit I post on this account is written while I'm sitting on the toilet. Not this one, I put some time into this some it can be forgotten about tomorrow.
"Just when I thought I got out, they pulled me right back in!"
😆 🤣 😂
And yeah, @ProfSteveKeen changed my life too. Jeep doing you.
#GDPDynamics
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A little background for my post-Keynesian and MMT friends, and an explanation of what the fuck I've been doing on this account for the last six weeks.
Back in 2022, I met Steve Keen on a random livestream and ended up showing him a rather sophisticated pandemic model for Covid-19 I had developed for British Columbia, Canada, using his system dynamics software, Ravel. I had actually started using his software back in 2017, when I was working at a box factory and experimenting with ways to optimize productivity through system dynamics modeling.
Around the same time I first met Steve on that stream in 2022, I opened this Twitter account. I also started a YouTube channel producing system dynamics modeling tutorials, primarily focused on macroeconomics. Before that, I had deleted Facebook, Instagram, and pretty much every other social media account I had back in 2017 because I couldn't stand that shit anymore. "Just when I thought I got out, they pulled me right back in!"
In 2023, I began developing a large national economic model that led to a lot of unique opportunities and rebranded myself as Relearning Economics. I started posting historical economic quotes, which eventually became a regular feature of the account. Interestingly, quite a few accounts doing the same thing today appeared after I started doing it. Unfortunately, most of them turned out to be libertarian accounts.
Along the way, I met a tremendous number of economists, researchers, and systems thinkers. Those connections eventually turned into a steady side income from economic modeling contracts. Over time, I accumulated a substantial collection of unpublished models, experiments, and research that I wanted to make publicly available.
That eventually led to GDP Dynamics.
I launched @GDPDynamics and its corresponding website this past summer as a home for my economic models, forecasts, and research. Much of the forecasting and modeling work is available to the public for free, while a premium membership provides more detailed analysis and additional research. It has already developed into another source of income, allowing me to spend more time doing what I actually enjoy: building economic models.
Around the same time, I decided to retire the Relearning Economics identity, return to using my legal name on Twitter, and establish GDP Dynamics as a separate brand. Besides when you have the last name Keynes and you work in the field of economics, I could I have not returned to it. Another factor was the release of my book, Beyond Equilibrium: A dynamic Keynesian Approach to Macroeconomics.
After two and a half years, posting historical economic quotes had become rather dated and redundant relative to what I was trying to accomplish. It certainly helped build an audience, but it also came with an enormous amount of bullshit.
For nearly two years, I dealt with a constant stream of Austrian economists and libertarians attacking practically anything I posted. Share a John Maynard Keynes quote and suddenly you're accused of supporting pedophilia. Discuss fiscal policy and you're a communist. Apparently, I'm a communist despite spending a considerable amount of my spare time developing software, negotiating contracts, selling economic modeling services, and running a business. Some days I feel like the most oppressed entrepreneur in economics.
The personal attacks were relentless. I received countless threats of violence from anonymous keyboard warriors, none of whom I took particularly seriously. Nevertheless, dealing with that shit almost every day for a couple of years becomes exhausting.
And this brings me to my Post-Keynesian and MMT followers.
I've watched how our side of the economics community has been treated, particularly by the Austrian and libertarian crowd. The constant insults, accusations, and personal attacks. Being called retards, faggots, woke libtards, communists, and just about every other insult these people can manage to string together. I've seen perfectly reasonable economic discussions turn into absolute cesspools because somebody dared to question the intellectual foundations of Austrian economics.
When I returned to using my legal name and separated the GDP Dynamics brand from my personal account, I had a little social experiment in mind.
Social media has become a clickbait shithole, populated by countless little ideological echo chambers. People spend more time defending their intellectual tribes than actually learning anything. In my case I find it particularly frustrating because I'm in the business of economic forecasting, not abstract fuckery.
So, beginning September 15th, I started a calculated campaign of what I would describe as chud-style economic ragebait, primarily directed at Austrian economists and libertarians, with the occasional shot at New Keynesians and neoclassical economists.
Over the following six weeks, those posts generated millions of impressions.
There were three reasons for doing this.
First, I'm fascinated by how systems behave. That's probably obvious considering I spend a substantial amount of my life building nonlinear dynamic models. Social media is itself a complex system of feedback loops, reinforcement mechanisms, incentives, and emergent behavior. I wanted to see what would happen if I deliberately changed the nature of the content being introduced into that system.
Second, I wanted to change the composition of my audience. My historical quote posting had attracted what I estimated to be somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 Austrian and libertarian followers who had very little interest in my actual economic modeling work. I wanted to shed much of that audience and develop a healthier balance of people genuinely interested in macroeconomics, system dynamics, and the research I publish.
Based on the substantial follower turnover I've observed in my X Premium analytics over the past six weeks, that objective appears to have been achieved.
Third, and perhaps most importantly, I wanted to return some of the bullshit that I and many others in the post-Keynesian and MMT communities have endured on this platform which specifically accelerated after Musk took over.
After two years of watching these people casually throw around personal insults, threats, and accusations, I figured it might be entertaining to give them a taste of their own medicine.
Judging by the extraordinary amount of crybaby fuckery coming from libertarians over the past six weeks, I can say that particular objective has been rather satisfying. Those folk might be more woke than the woke woke(s)...
But there is also a more serious observation here.
What this experience has reinforced for me is just how ineffective social media can be as a platform for distributing substantive intellectual work. You can spend months developing an economic model, testing its behavior, validating its results, and writing a detailed explanation, only to reach a fraction of the audience that a deliberately provocative two-sentence post can attract in a few hours. Sadly this post that I have put effort into will mean little to nothing in a few hours and will probably get very low engagement because it's to long and complex for the TikTok generation.
The incentives overwhelmingly favor emotional reactions, ideological conflict, and instant gratification over research and meaningful discussion. Millions of impressions do not necessarily translate into people reading your work, understanding your models, or engaging with the underlying economics.
This is one of the reasons I established GDP Dynamics as an independent platform. I would rather have a smaller audience genuinely interested in my research than millions of impressions from people arguing about something they haven't bothered to understand.
And for anyone wondering whether I've become permanently consumed by Twitter/X ragebait, I can assure you I haven't. Will I stop, I don't know, If George Selgin gets any more emotionally damaged by my posts about David Graeber, he might end up on Prozac or some other antidepressant and if that's the case I will never stop.
In real life, I ride downhill mountain bikes for excitement, work on economic models, consulting work and run the GDP Dynamics site. As a Canadian I go to a lot of hockey games, say "eh" a lot and cut down trees with and axe. I'm probably more libertarian than a libertarian
Most of the stupid shit I post on this account is written while I'm sitting on the toilet. Not this one, I put some time into this some it can be forgotten about tomorrow.
Chinedu Muhammad Okoye☘️ retweeted
I'm curious, what do you suppose 'Military Training' prepares you for? Annual General Meetings? 🤔
A soldier can be left behind enemy lines, whether through necessity or because he has lost his bearing and fallen behind. In that moment, he has little choice but to rely on what he remembers from training. That rigorous, torturous process, the conditioning that once seemed unbearable, becomes his best friend.
When everything else falls away, you don't cave, you rise to the occasion. You fall back on what you've been trained to do. And in that moment, the very experiences you resented while enduring them become the things that sustain you when life strips away your comfort, direction, and support.
It's not by force. But once you're in, you're all in. Sometimes I think Nigerians need to face a common existential external threat to understand why certain things should and shouldn't be.
I'm curious, what do you suppose 'Military Training' prepares you for? Annual General Meetings? 🤔
A soldier can be left behind enemy lines, whether through necessity or because he has lost his bearing and fallen behind. In that moment, he has little choice but to rely on what he remembers from training. That rigorous, torturous process, the conditioning that once seemed unbearable, becomes his best friend.
When everything else falls away, you don't cave, you rise to the occasion. You fall back on what you've been trained to do. And in that moment, the very experiences you resented while enduring them become the things that sustain you when life strips away your comfort, direction, and support.
It's not by force. But once you're in, you're all in. Sometimes I think Nigerians need to face a common existential external threat to understand why certain things should and shouldn't be.
Finally! You go explain why N50m dey enter one Felicia Anthony account. 😆
I KNEW HE WAS GOING TO DO THIS. IF TINUBU CAN'T CHANGE NIGERIA IT WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE TODAY TO ACHIEVE THAT.
President Bola Tinubu has approved the involvement of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in monitoring allocations from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) to Nigeria’s 36 states and 774 local government areas...
CREDIT: @RealUgoji
Before Nigeria? Na man., this isn't about preferences anymore. These man are literally a genuine threat to the country.
See ba, I can understand "Ypruba, Igbo, or Ibibio first. But pledging allegiance to God is one things (that's what being a Muslim means, one who surrenders, and resigns to the will of Allah, after all is said and done.
But, if your neigbors have a right over you, even and sme may say ESPECIALLY when they're Kuffar, how much more your countryman?
Make I still emtr Masjid sha. Pray for Nigeria.
99.9% bruv.
Yes he is your messiah, without him you would be nothing without him you can’t unite to find a good leader to lead your country.
I didn’t like people when I was younger and I can see why and I come to the same conclusion as my much younger self. 90% of people are irredeemable sheep meant to be led and never to lead