Apricitas Economics

Substack by Joseph Politano · launched Jun 6, 2021

Data-driven Insights on Economics, Business, Finance, and Public Policy.

Top in Finance
#218
Paid leaderboard
#260
Paid subscribers
100+ paid
Badge
Bestseller 100
Followers
201K
Paid plan
$15/mo
Recommends
6

other newsletters

Growth history

Subscribers (thousands, nightly)

83K on Sep 10, 2026 → 84K on Oct 21, 2026

Followers (thousands, nightly)

Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #218 today · #205 a week ago · #266 a month ago

Stats worth sharing

Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 61 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.

Percentile
Top 42%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen
#60

on Oct 28, 2026

Rank, 7 days
−13 places
Rank, 30 days
+48 places
Followers added
+5.9K

since tracking began

Posts
1

last 30 days

Reactions per post
231

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked
3.2K

across 14 posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: How Tariffs Are Breaking US Trade — 367 reactions on Jun 15, 2025.

Apricitas Economics — rank, subscribers and growth, tracked by Stock Market Watch
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Recent posts

  • How Canada is Decoupling From the US

    Thanks for reading! If you haven’t subscribed, please click the button below: By subscribing, you’ll join over 85,000 people who read Apricitas! Canada is increasingly decoupling from the US economy—the share of Canadian trade flows headed to the US has fallen to the lowest level in more than 30 years, with both US import and export shares dropping significantly since 2025. Trump’s trade war, consumer boycotts, and a formal Canadian government push to boost non-US trade have all reduced the country’s economic reliance on its southern neighbor. When Donald Trump began his second term, he…

  • AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class

    Thanks for reading! If you haven’t subscribed, please click the button below: By subscribing, you’ll join over 80,000 people who read Apricitas! America has lost more than 200k jobs in “creative” industries over the last four years, with roughly 50k lost within the last year alone. That makes for one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history, with similar job loss intensity and duration occurring only during the major economic recessions of 2001 and 2008. Yet there’s no generalized recession today—instead, this period of job loss coincides with the rise of AI systems…

  • America's Electricity Gap
  • Taiwan's Modern Miracle
  • The Supreme Court Ruled Against Trump's Tariffs. Now What?
  • America's $1T AI Gamble
  • The Economic Legacy of DOGE
  • The 'No Hire' Economy
  • America is Losing Blue Collar Jobs
  • America is Flying Blind on Immigration
  • California Keeps Losing Tech Jobs
  • The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom

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