Ed Dowd: Beyond the Narrative

Substack by Ed Dowd: Beyond the Narrative · launched Aug 9, 2024

Ex BlackRock equity portfolio manager

Top in Finance
#179
Paid leaderboard
#242
Subscribers
16K

rounded by Substack

Paid subscribers
100+ paid
Badge
Bestseller 100
Followers
35K
Paid plan
$8/mo
Recommends
0

other newsletters

Podcast
Yes

Growth history

Subscribers (thousands, nightly)

12K on Sep 10, 2026 → 16K on Oct 21, 2026

Followers (thousands, nightly)

Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #179 today · #184 a week ago · #191 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 35%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen
#168

on Oct 17, 2026

Rank, 7 days
+5 places
Rank, 30 days
+12 places
Subscribers added
+4.0K

since tracking began

Followers added
+5.1K

since tracking began

Posts
5

last 30 days

Reactions per post
459

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked
8.3K

across 18 posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: The COVID Reckoning That Never Came — 1.9K reactions on Jul 10, 2026.

Ed Dowd: Beyond the Narrative — rank, subscribers and growth, tracked by Stock Market Watch
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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: Ed Dowd: Beyond the Narrative. 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.