The Informationist

Substack by James Lavish, CFA · launched Aug 9, 2021

Simplifying one important financial topic weekly

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What they write about

A Monday market brief plus a weekly explainer built around a single question. Recurring subjects include Treasury auctions, buybacks and debt management, Federal Reserve communication and policy, Bitcoin, and labour-market and inflation data read from official statistics.

  • treasury market
  • federal reserve
  • bitcoin
  • inflation
  • labour market
  • macro

Recent examples: 💡 Is Oil Raising the Price of Everything? · 💡 What Is Fiscal Dominance?

Written from The Informationist’s own published post titles and openings in Sep 11, 2026. It describes the subjects the newsletter covers, not its views, and is not investment advice.

Growth history

Subscribers (thousands, nightly)

46K on Sep 10, 2026 → 46K on Oct 21, 2026

Followers (thousands, nightly)

Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #72 today · #72 a week ago · #70 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 14%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen
#62

on Sep 15, 2026

Rank, 30 days
−2 places
Followers added
+423

since tracking began

Posts
8

last 30 days

Reactions per post
42

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked
972

across 23 posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: 💡 Did the US Treasury Just Blink? — 72 reactions on Aug 23, 2026.

The Informationist — rank, subscribers and growth, tracked by Stock Market Watch
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Recent posts

  • 💡 Is Oil Raising the Price of Everything?

    ✌️ Welcome to the latest issue of The Informationist , the newsletter that makes you smarter in just a few minutes each week. 🙌 The Informationist takes one current event or complicated concept and simplifies it for you in bullet points and easy to understand text. 🫶 If this email was forwarded to you, then you have awesome friends, click below to join! Full disclosure, and as many of you already know: I hold bitcoin and hard assets personally and professionally, and I sit on the board of a bitcoin treasury company, so weigh my opinion accordingly. Nothing here is individual advice, and I…

  • 💡 What Is Fiscal Dominance?

    ✌️ Welcome to the latest issue of The Informationist , the newsletter that makes you smarter in just a few minutes each week. 🙌 The Informationist takes one current event or complicated concept and simplifies it for you in bullet points and easy to understand text. 🫶 If this email was forwarded to you, then you have awesome friends, click below to join! Full disclosure, and as many of you already know: I hold bitcoin and hard assets personally and professionally, and I sit on the board of a bitcoin treasury company, so weigh my opinion accordingly. Nothing here is individual advice, and I…

  • 💡Informationist Roundtable Recording: Q3 2026

    Hey everyone. As promised, here is the full un-cut video recording from last week. Roundtable Recording: Q3 2026 And the Passcode: 8+=g7TJE Please treat this as Confidential and do not pass or forward around. And please send any feedback you may have from today’s session by replying directly to this email. Thank you all again! Talk soon, James ✌️

  • 💡 When Will Mortgage Rates Fall?

    ✌️ Welcome to the latest issue of The Informationist , the newsletter that makes you smarter in just a few minutes each week. 🙌 The Informationist takes one current event or complicated concept and simplifies it for you in bullet points and easy to understand text. 🫶 If this email was forwarded to you, then you have awesome friends, click below to join! Full disclosure, and as many of you already know: I hold bitcoin and hard assets personally and professionally, and I sit on the board of a bitcoin treasury company, so weigh my opinion accordingly. Nothing here is individual advice, and I…

  • Roundtable Meeting Today

    Team, It’s today! Our quarterly live Roundtable starts at 1:00 PM PT (4:00 PM ET) . Plan for 90 minutes. Here’s your link. No account or app needed, just click and you’re in. Roundtable Live I’ll open the room a few minutes early. If you have a question you haven’t sent yet, just reply to this email and I’ll fold it in. Or bring it live once the mic opens up. See you at 1:00.

  • 💡 Are We Witnessing a Bond Apocalypse?

    ✌️ Welcome to the latest issue of The Informationist , the newsletter that makes you smarter in just a few minutes each week. 🙌 The Informationist takes one current event or complicated concept and simplifies it for you in bullet points and easy to understand text. 🫶 If this email was forwarded to you, then you have awesome friends, click below to join! 🍁 Through Monday at midnight Pacific, a full year of The Informationist is $150 instead of $250 , locked in for as long as you stay subscribed. Get the $150 Deal Full disclosure, and as many of you already know: I hold bitcoin and hard…

  • Roundtable Meeting: Q4 2026

    Team, Quick correction to this morning’s note. Next Thursday’s Roundtable is 90 minutes, not 30. Please plan for 1:00 to 2:30 PM PT (4:00 to 5:30 PM ET). Roundtable Live And keep those questions coming. Just reply to this email. See you next Thursday. James ✌️

  • Roundtable Meeting: Q4 2026

    Team, Next Thursday is our quarterly live Roundtable , and you’re part of it. The details: Thursday, October 1, 1:00 PM PT (4:00 PM ET) . Plan for 90 minutes. It’s on Zoom, and you don’t need an account or app to join, just click the link below. Roundtable Live The format is the same as last quarter. I’ll give you some quick thoughts about where we are macroeconomically, add…

  • THE INFORMATIONIST QUARTERLY LETTER

    Some of you have been hearing me talk about this for a while now, and it’s finally complete. The first edition of the Informationist Institutional quarterly macro research letter. This first letter is free for everyone and meant to be shared . As you will see, the letter is written specifically for serious investors and advisors who are looking for a deeper, more thoughtful set of articles that reach into history to help inform us what’s going on in the macroeconomic world today. A key piece of each quarterly newsletter is the Debasement Pressure Index (DPI) . This is a proprietary measure…

  • THE INFORMATIONIST INSTITUTIONAL QUARTERLY LETTER

    You’ve been hearing me talk about this for a while now, and it’s finally complete. The first edition of the Informationist Institutional quarterly macro research letter. I want to first thank you for being a founding member and helping bring this to life, and I truly hope that you find value and enjoy the letter. As you will see, this is written specifi…

  • 💡 Can Trump Really Send You $5,000?

    ✌️ Welcome to the latest issue of The Informationist , the newsletter that makes you smarter in just a few minutes each week. 🙌 The Informationist takes one current event or complicated concept and simplifies it for you in bullet points and easy to understand text. 🫶 If this email was forwarded to you, then you have awesome friends, click below to join! Today’s Bullets: What Is a Trump Dividend, Anyway? Doesn’t Congress Get a Say? Who Coughs Up the Dough? What Does This Do to the Price of Milk? Inspirational Tweet: Let’s be honest. We’ve all gotten quite used to politicians making all kinds…

  • The Monday Brief: Four Days and $119 Billion

    Your Monday compass. What's on my screen, why, and what would change my mind. In your inbox before the open, and four minutes start to finish. Yesterday was Labor Day, so this is a short week. A quiet Fed and a busy Treasury with just four days to cram it all in. WHAT I’M WATCHING THIS WEEK

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