Who is actually growing in finance publishing. This tracks 786 newsletter on Substack’s public finance leaderboards plus 7 on beehiiv and self-hosted platforms, snapshots them every night, and compares this week against last.
Movers need a week of history. Rank changes, subscriber gains and tier crossings appear once there are snapshots seven days apart. Collecting since Sep 10, 2026 (1 day so far). Everything below that does not depend on a comparison is live now.
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1Necessary InventionsDoomberg · Sep 5, 2026“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach Among the most ironclad, stone-cold, lead-pipe-lock bets of history is that aggregate primary energy consumption is a curve…867
2Falkland AroundDoomberg · Sep 9, 2026“I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.” – Anthony Edwards In March of 2013, 1,517 inhabitants of what the United Nations (UN) officially refers to as the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) went to the polls to vote on a sovereignty…620
3Trading Post 9/4/2026Cassandra Unchained · Sep 4, 2026This one is short and sweet. I’ve been going through the lululemon (LULU) 10-Q, conference call transcript and the 8-K press release, and clearly things have changed for the worse. My IV15 fell rather dramatically under new assumptions and…522
5我離職了FOMO研究院電子報 · Sep 9, 2026有件事情，想告訴你們。 上個星期，我離開了本來的工作，正式全職投入FOMO研究院。 FOMO研究院電子報 is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 還記得一年前，我宣佈推出付費會員計畫。…480
8I WILL PAY ONE READER $3,000 TO TELL ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY NOVELCapital Mischief · Sep 5, 2026 · PAYHarperCollins Has Opinions. I’d Rather Hear Yours. I have a slightly insane proposition for you, although after five years of writing a novel I have lost whatever authority I once possessed to distinguish sane propositions from the other…322
10Thank You Rick Santelli, You Fucking LegendQTR’s Fringe Finance · Sep 5, 2026It was announced this past week that Rick Santelli will be retiring next month. So today I offer a tribute to perhaps the last man standing on CNBC with a functioning economics textbook, and one of the few figures in financial media who…299
11You’re wasting 78% of your time (here’s how to fix it)The 5-Minute Finance · Sep 4, 2026When I left my job earlier this year to run this newsletter full time, people assumed my days would be packed. Writing, researching, replying to emails, managing the business side of things. The assumption was that going full time would…298
12One Molecule, Three Victims: Your Groceries, Europe's Mortgage, and the Fed's NerveCapital Mischief · Sep 9, 2026The Most Important Price in America Is the One Nobody's Allowed to Notice There is a truck stop off I-81 in Virginia where a gallon of diesel costs more than a gallon of milk. This is new. As of Monday the national average hit $5.90, a…282
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