Channel
@r_econ
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54subscribers
+4 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001456378461 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @r_econ |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 31 October 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 8 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/r_econ |
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 29 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 88% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2026, 23:58 | 54 | +1 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 19:38 | 53 | +1 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 04:28 | 52 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 20:27 | 51 | +1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 11:16 | 50 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 16:27 | 50 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 26 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 9 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 2 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
How Scott Bessent used financial engineering to finance the $2 trillion deficit while leaving it untouched—and created a $1.45 trillion shortfall https://fortune.com/2026/08/08/treasury-borrowing-tbac-145-trillion-shortfall-bessent-debt/ https://redd.it/1vj0q7h @r_econ
K-shaped spending: The top 10% drop nearly as much on nonessentials as the bottom 70% combined https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/article/k-shaped-spending-the-top-10-drop-nearly-as-much-on-nonessentials-as-the-bottom-70-combined-132332976.html https://redd.it/1vfkpqf @r_econ
The bond market is unhappy with the Federal Reserve's unwillingness to fight inflation https://reason.com/2026/07/30/the-bond-market-is-unhappy-with-the-federal-reserves-unwillingness-to-fight-inflation/ https://redd.it/1vb29br @r_econ
Dow Tumbles 1,153 Points In Worst Day Of The Year https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/07/29/dow-posts-its-worst-day-of-the-year-after-federal-reserve-maintains-interest-rates/ https://redd.it/1va8oy1 @r_econ
‘Countless Seniors Will Soon Pay More’: Trump Ends Subsidy for Medicare Prescription Drug Plans | “Donald Trump and Republicans are making healthcare more expensive for seniors at every turn.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicare-prescription-drug-subsidy https://redd.it/1v9sd2z @r_econ
China’s exports are so huge they’re now lowering inflation in other countries https://fortune.com/2026/07/28/china-exports-lowering-inflation-in-other-countries/ https://redd.it/1v9dfjo @r_econ
Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-oil-reserves/ https://redd.it/1v92en4 @r_econ
They say we're winning who's the liar?? https://redd.it/1v8tsjo @r_econ
The Washington Post: NYC-run grocery stores will sell meat, other basics at 30% off, Mamdani says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/27/nyc-run-grocery-stores-will-sell-meat-other-basics-30-off-mamdani-says/ https://redd.it/1v8lmhs @r_econ
As the US pauses the war with Iran, is Trump really running out of weapons? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qvnk2ezp7o https://redd.it/1v8mzlj @r_econ
What Magic: The Gathering's record year reveals about America's stalled adulthood economy https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/magic-the-gathering-millennial-housing-wealth-nostalgia-economy/ https://redd.it/1v8awpq @r_econ
Everyone decent hates Elon. https://redd.it/1v7xhtt @r_econ
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @r_econ. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 7 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 8 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Economics & Finance” (@r_econ), 54 subscribers as measured 8 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/r_econ.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.