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r/Economics

The Dismal Science. Reddit's largest economics community. Serving as a central forum for users to read, discuss, and learn more about topics related to the economic discipline. We have written rules to support this aim and welcome those who want to learn and those who want to contribute. We aim to foster an environment where everybody feels safe and welcomed and where people feel encouraged to have healthy and productive discuss Founded 2008 · 5.8M members · links only

5.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 58.6K upvotes, which works out to 10 per 1,000 members.

10peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5.8Mmembers
58.6Kbest post
4.3Kmost comments
964posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

News 518 Research 39 Editorial 36 Statistics 23 Blog 20 Research Summary 17 Interview 6

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Economist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a "Deep, Deep Recession"

↑ 58.6K 💬 3.8K link 2025

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that he has officially balanced the NYC budget, reducing a $12 billion budget deficit to 0, and confirms that prop…

↑ 51.2K 💬 1.7K link 2026

65% of Americans support monthly $2,000 COVID stimulus payments, new poll shows

↑ 48.5K 💬 3.4K link 2021

Republicans Less Trusted on Economy Than Democrats For First Time in Years

↑ 44.3K 💬 1.4K link 2025

Trump's first 50 days mark one of the worst starts for the S&P 500 under any presidency

↑ 44.1K 💬 514 link 2025

US tourism to suffer huge '£49 billion drop' under Donald Trump

↑ 42.9K 💬 1.9K link 2025

Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn't reach employees

↑ 41.9K 💬 374 link 2022

Trudeau announces Canada ban on Russian oil imports. “Today, we are announcing a ban on all imports of crude oil from Russia, an industry that has be…

↑ 38.2K 💬 887 link 2022

Trump Admin disbands panels responsible for calculating GDP and collecting economic data

↑ 36K 💬 623 link 2025

CNBC: Harris to propose federal ban on 'corporate price-gouging' in food and groceries

↑ 35.6K 💬 2.7K link 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Economics, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Economics?
r/Economics ("The Dismal Science") describes itself this way: Reddit's largest economics community. Serving as a central forum for users to read, discuss, and learn more about topics related to the economic discipline. We have written rules to support this aim and welcome those who want to learn and those who want to contribute. We aim to foster an environment where everybody feels safe and welcomed and where people feel encouraged to have healthy and productive discuss. It was founded in 2008 and has 5.8M members.
How many members does r/Economics have?
r/Economics has about 5.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 964 of its posts; the biggest reached 58.6K upvotes, which is 10 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Economics?
"Economist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a "Deep, Deep Recession"" reached 58.6K upvotes and 3.8K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Economics.
What subreddits are similar to r/Economics?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/AccidentalRenaissance.
What kind of posts do best on r/Economics?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are link posts and 0% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Economics?
Across 964 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 18:00 UTC (10.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (10.1K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (8.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Economics?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Economics has 29.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 310 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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