The ACID Capitalist

Substack by Hugh Hendry · launched Jul 1, 2022

Former global macro hedge fund manager distilling market insights via his alter-ego, the acid capitalist Media https://linktr.ee/acidcapitalist

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Top in Finance

#268

Paid leaderboard

#124

Paid subscribers

100+ paid

Badge

Bestseller 100

Followers

16K

Paid plan

$30/mo

Recommends

1

other newsletters

Podcast

Yes

Growth history

Stats worth sharing

Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 62 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.

Percentile

Top 52%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen

#251

on Sep 12, 2026

Rank, 7 days

+5 places

Rank, 30 days

+17 places

Followers added

+1.8K

since tracking began

Posts

8

last 30 days

Reactions per post

16

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked

373

across 24 posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: the scoreboard in beijing. — 45 reactions on Oct 20, 2026.

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Recent posts

• don’t cure the brilliant child.

  Nov 5, 2026Paid0 reactions1 comments0 restacks

• the family in lagos who lends to washington.

  Nov 2, 2026Paid7 reactions1 comments3 restacks

• the robot doesn’t see the adverts

  Oct 31, 2026Paid15 reactions3 comments3 restacks

• bull markets begin when loved least.

  Oct 30, 2026Paid17 reactions0 comments2 restacks

• love it least.

  Oct 26, 202621 reactions8 comments4 restacks

• renting the fire alarm

  Oct 24, 2026Paid13 reactions4 comments1 restacks

• the richest poor man in paradise.

  Oct 23, 2026Paid10 reactions18 comments3 restacks

• the scoreboard in beijing.

  Oct 20, 202645 reactions12 comments3 restacks

• a bond with a beautiful view.

  Oct 4, 2026Paid12 reactions1 comments0 restacks

• the gun that fires backwards.

  Sep 25, 2026Paid20 reactions1 comments0 restacks

• there will be fucking blood.

  Sep 22, 2026Paid17 reactions7 comments0 restacks

• the fiscal war.

  Sep 19, 2026Paid26 reactions3 comments1 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: The ACID Capitalist. 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: Nov 10, 2026.