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Total student loan debt outstanding

correlates with

Elon Musk tweets per year

r = 0.91792% · 2015-2022
Total student loan debt outstandingElon Musk tweets per year

These two datasets have a 92% correlation over 2015-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Total student loan debt outstandingfred.stlouisfed.org
Elon Musk tweets per yearvisualcapitalist.com
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