Passing the Torch Newsletter
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- #223
- Subscribers
- 29K
- Paid subscribers
- 10+ paid
- Followers
- 29K
- Paid plan
- $17.50/mo
- Recommends
- 2
- Podcast
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Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
29K on Sep 10, 2026 → 29K on Oct 21, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #223 today · #186 a week ago · #123 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 42 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 43%
- Best rank seen
- #114
- Rank, 7 days
- −37 places
- Rank, 30 days
- −100 places
- Followers added
- −262
- Posts
- 7
- Reactions per post
- 30
- Reactions tracked
- 679
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Sep 14, 2026
since tracking began
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 23 posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: A Socialist and a Capitalist Walk Into a Bar... — 57 reactions on Aug 29, 2026.
Recent posts
- Who Is Making French Students Riot? Hint: They Trade Bonds...
- IQMaxxing: the next wave of hyperoptimization among Gen Z.
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- There Are Only Two Ways to Get a Job
- Underreported & Outsized Impact: Week of September 28th
- My High School is Banning Energy Drinks
- Are The Technocrats Beginning To Care?
- Underreported & Outsized Impact: Week of September 14th
- iPhone Duo, Shower Thoughts, and other articles.
- You’re Holding It Wrong: iPhone Duo
- Thursday Markets Roundup -- September 10th
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Data: Substack public leaderboards and publication archives, refreshed nightly, plus public beehiiv sitemaps and recommendation pages, refreshed weekly. Source for this page: Passing the Torch Newsletter. Subscriber counts are Substack’s own rounded public figures, so week-on-week changes move in steps. beehiiv audience sizes are self-reported by the publisher and are not verified. Last snapshot: Oct 21, 2026.