Capital Wars

Substack by Michael Howell · launched May 2, 2023

Global Liquidity Insights

Top in Finance
#37
Paid leaderboard
#5
Subscribers
57K

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Paid subscribers
1,000+ paid
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Bestseller 1k
Followers
76K
Paid plan
$75/mo
Recommends
40

other newsletters

Podcast
Yes

Growth history

Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #37 today

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Tracked since Sep 10, 20261 daily snapshot so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly. It is free for Capital Wars to post, embed or send to readers, as long as the watermark stays on it.

Percentile
Top 8%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen
#37

on Sep 10, 2026

Posts
12

last 30 days

Reactions per post
61

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked
737

across 12 posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: AAA Rated: Bonds and the Hidden Architecture of Modern Finance 168 reactions on Aug 26, 2026.

Capital Wars — rank, subscribers and growth, tracked by Stock Market Watch
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Recent posts

  • In Conversation With Michael Howell

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  • Global Liquidity Watch: Weekly Update

    Global liquidity is being supported by benign funding conditions (low volatility), but underlying liquidity creation remains weak, with SMB growth still negative. Investor risk appetite remains strong, increasingly favouring select developed markets and commodity-related emerging markets

  • Bitcoin’s Liquidity Paradoxes

    We view liquidity as circulating through two distinct channels: the financial economy and the real economy. We often express this idea by saying that all money that is anywhere must be somewhere ; it cannot occupy two places simultaneously. In broad terms, liquidity in the financial sector supports bond prices and risk assets, while liquidity in the real economy fuels commodity markets, business activity and corporate profits. When liquidity shifts between these two circuits, equity P/Es may fall as bond yields rise, but stronger earnings can offset that pressure to a greater or lesser…

  • Impossible Things

    “Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’” — Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-Glass Markets are being asked to accept three widely held assumptions: that rising US bond yields reflect a loss of confidence in US assets, that higher rates are inherently bearish , and that recent US Treasury and Federal Reserve interventions amount to…

  • Global Liquidity Watch: Weekly Update

    Sorry for the errors in the table. Here is the corrected version.

  • Global Liquidity Watch: Weekly Update
  • More (Johnny) Cash?
  • AAA Rated: Bonds and the Hidden Architecture of Modern Finance
  • Global Liquidity Watch: Weekly Update
  • Bonds, Bessent and Bedlam
  • Global Liquidity Check
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