Charles Hugh Smith's Substack

Substack by Charles Hugh Smith · launched May 28, 2023

Choosing economic self-reliance, navigating global instability and degrowth, managing burnout, invest in yourself.

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Top in Finance

#367

Paid leaderboard

#371

Subscribers

8.0K

rounded by Substack

Paid subscribers

100+ paid

Badge

Bestseller 100

Followers

16K

Paid plan

$7/mo

Recommends

14

other newsletters

Podcast

Yes

Growth history

Stats worth sharing

Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 22 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.

Percentile

Top 70%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen

#319

on Sep 12, 2026

Rank, 7 days

−33 places

Followers added

+83

since tracking began

Posts

7

last 30 days

Reactions per post

19

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked

233

across 12 posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: We're Living in a Tragicomic Parody — 35 reactions on Sep 3, 2026.

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Recent posts

• We Can't Automate Learning, We Can Only Automate Dependence on AI

  Sep 10, 202610 reactions1 comments2 restacks

• Social Media Is Pointless Slag

  Sep 8, 202632 reactions4 comments5 restacks

• Convenience Decays on Many Fronts and In Many Ways.

  Sep 5, 20262 reactions0 comments1 restacks

• The Demise of Convenience

  Sep 5, 2026Paid20 reactions7 comments6 restacks

• Our Tragicomic Parody of a Functional Economy

  Sep 3, 20266 reactions0 comments1 restacks

• We're Living in a Tragicomic Parody

  Sep 3, 202635 reactions3 comments3 restacks

• The Irresistible Temptations of Centralized Power

  Sep 1, 202635 reactions4 comments8 restacks

• The Surprise-Ending of the AI Story: AI Will Catalyze Model Collapse

  Aug 29, 2026Paid17 reactions3 comments1 restacks

• We're All Blindfolded on the Precipice

  Aug 27, 20264 reactions1 comments1 restacks

• The Blindfolded Can't Make Informed Decisions--and We're All Blindfolded

  Aug 27, 202630 reactions2 comments1 restacks

• We Only "Own" What We Control--Everything Else Is "Rented"

  Aug 26, 20268 reactions2 comments1 restacks

• We're Actually Only "Renting" What We Think We "Own"

  Aug 26, 2026Paid34 reactions1 comments4 restacks

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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: Charles Hugh Smith's Substack. 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 1, 2026.