I just posted this short video on the national debt on TikTok. I think we've upped our production values in this one. Comments would be welcome.
This morning's post on TikTok has had more than 20,000 view so far. That is not bad for about a week on the platform.
@richardjmurphy The national debt's not as big as claimed The UK government says that the national debt is £2,659 billion. That's not true. £733 billion of that is owed to the UK government - and you can't owe yourself. So the real figures is much smaller than they claim. #money #uk #nationaldebt
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I’m not on TikTok but I can see why you are expanding in that direction. I like the subtitles because I can watch it in company without disturbing anyone with your dulcet tones! Anyway, I think your videos are very impactful and, hopefully, you will earn a new audience who wish to be better informed.
That’s the aim
Now we have worked out some of the basics quality is the target
Just a quick tip – it might be worth pacing out the TikToks / YT videos over a span of days, instead of bursting them out all at once.
It makes better use of the algorithmic reach, and audiences are more likely to return to a channel if it has 1-2m of content for them to consume than if they visit it and find it has about 25m of content. Otherwise, keep up the good work.
Thanks
We are being told otherwise
Some suggest three a day.
Everyone says daily is essential.
We plan to settle on two a day with TikTok being the main target. Longer forms will only be about one a week.
But thanks – and you may be proved to be right
Two or so a day might work. I’d honestly target one, going up at a regularised and optimised time.
The only real issue I see with blasting them all at once (despite them seeing good success!) is that you may run into an issue with content pipelines, where you run out of things to upload to it and then lose your algorithm momentum.
I have posted 3.3 times a day on average here every day, 365 days a year, for almost 18 years now. I am not anticipating running out of things to say.
You can owe yourself money if the plan is to unwind the QE by selling back the bonds to the market (that you bought previously).
And then cancelling the money that was previously created.
This is how QT works. How it was always going to work. How it was explained it would work. And which you repeatedly claimed would never happen!
And which is a disaster – and let’s be clear, has nothing whatsoever to do with QE
20,000 views – that’s amazing.
There is obviously a desire for these messages which is incredibly encouraging
Keep it going!
I have mentioned before that UK government debt passed 100% of government annual income many many years ago and you rubbished that claim. Although you didn’t provide evidence that it was wrong.
Now you provide evidence that I was right. A small win for economists who live in the real world and for that I grudgingly thank you
Thank you
Clear and succinct
Please continue to post them here, I don’t Tik Tok
Re: tic tok
I don’t and won’t subscribe to tictok. Your tictok vids have no sound on my phone – no idea why. Please get your YouTube channel up and running ASAP and, if possible, use those on your blog in place of the tictok.
We will be using the YouTube versions here in future – I just had to make Thomas a manager of it to sort that out
TikTok always defaults to silent – you have to turn it on….
The TikTok vids do have sound but only after I tap them. (Android phone andI don’t have the App.)
That is a TikTok thing – they turn on without sound by default