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Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings. Contributing correspondent, Wall Street Journal. Views in tweets are strictly my own.

Washington, D.C.
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    David Wessel‏Verified account @davidmwessel 2 Sep 2016

    Best story in today's NYTimespic.twitter.com/vgbQpHpMaB

    3:51 AM - 2 Sep 2016
    • 2,161 Retweets
    • 2,546 Likes
    • Greg Mason Kris Stone Alana Gardner Bethany Chris Jones Dmitry Bikkinin Jessie Flori Shaheryar Popalzai Eial Wiznia
    29 replies 2,161 retweets 2,546 likes
    1. bob davis‏Verified account @bobdavis187 2 Sep 2016
      Replying to @davidmwessel

      You must have planted that story.

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      2. Adam Orth‏Verified account @adam_orth 2 Sep 2016

        I have to say that as of 30 seconds ago, I was one of them (but I use a Mac)

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    2. Pfeifer‏ @fbonacci 2 Sep 2016
      Replying to @davidmwessel

      in "Ad land" that's $250,000 worth of white space🐒

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      2. Mark‏ @markadams44 2 Sep 2016
        Replying to @davidmwessel

        @JaredMeyer10 Of course you should. Otherwise you will continue to be mistakenly emailed by the other recipients.

        2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Farrell‏ @OhhFarrell 2 Sep 2016
        Replying to @markadams44

        uh oh so you're THAT guy

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      4. Mark‏ @markadams44 2 Sep 2016
        Replying to @OhhFarrell

        I guess so.

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    3. Jason Delaney‏ @jasonjdelaney 2 Sep 2016
      Replying to @davidmwessel

      serous subtweeting of that annoying NYT co-worker

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    4. Elan Ruskin‏ @despair 2 Sep 2016
      Replying to @davidmwessel @Wertle

      Elan Ruskin Retweeted Bruce Potter

      https://twitter.com/gdead/status/771527795042385921 …

      Elan Ruskin added,

      Bruce Potter @gdead
      This one word NY article takes nearly 6MB and over 150 requests to load http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/technology/when-im-mistakenly-put-on-an-email-chain-should-i-hit-reply-all-asking-to-be-removed.html?_r=0 … pic.twitter.com/2Ybc1mfrdB
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    5. Rob Seamans‏ @robseamans 2 Sep 2016
      Replying to @davidmwessel

      the type of article that loses something in digital translation.

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      2. Gary‏ @Luvz2Fly 2 Sep 2016
        Replying to @davidmwessel

        @shanecelis TLDR

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      3. Alister Amo:~#‏ @AlisterWhitehat 3 Sep 2016
        Replying to @Luvz2Fly @davidmwessel @shanecelis

        hahahahhahah

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    6. Tâi Siáu-káu ✌ Taiwan‏ @TimMaddog 2 Sep 2016
      Replying to @davidmwessel

      .@davidmwessel @egasparis If I were the editor, I would've made "No." the headline.

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    7. ∼𝚝𝚢𝚖‏ @tym27 2 Sep 2016
      Replying to @davidmwessel

      Are you kidding? Best story in NYT *EVAR*!!!!1!

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    8. E.C. McCarthy‏ @paintedbird 2 Sep 2016
      Replying to @davidmwessel @wjhenn

      Also tax deductible.

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    9. Mark Ranchik‏ @MarkRanchik 2 Sep 2016
      Replying to @davidmwessel

      Is that story itself the newspaper equivalent of a "reply all"??

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      2. seesmirn‏ @seesmirn 2 Sep 2016
        Replying to @davidmwessel

        @Shannon_Simonds

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      4. seesmirn‏ @seesmirn 2 Sep 2016
        Replying to @shanswimdance @shannon_simonds

        I know right? Saw it shortly before our convo

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