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Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
25K on Sep 10, 2026 → 25K on Oct 21, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #129 today · #117 a week ago · #130 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 25%
- Best rank seen
- #98
- Rank, 7 days
- −12 places
- Rank, 30 days
- +1 place
- Followers added
- +626
- Posts
- 2
- Reactions per post
- 83
- Reactions tracked
- 1.2K
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Oct 9, 2026
since tracking began
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 15 posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: Can You Feel It? — 127 reactions on Jun 30, 2026.
Recent posts
- Uncomfortable Truths
Well, funky fall 2.0 has definitely arrived. Opening up social media is like touching fire. It seems we are back in dial-a-conspiracy days with a good theory or trigger out there for just about everybody. The noise is overwhelming. I find it interesting watching those that capitalize on the noise versus those that just want to inform. For the analysts who have just been digging and trying to understand what’s going on out there so that we can educate, watching the performance can be agonizing as what events we could see coming start to unfold. Long-time followers will remember that I started…
- Freakout
After spending years chasing every data point I could to understand exactly what was happening in the housing market and why nothing in mainstream media matched what I was seeing on the ground, I came to the realization that narrative IS the name of the game (snap, snap, snap). If you think AI-is-going-to-kill-you headlines were scary, the media seems pretty intent on scaring us about mortgage rates over 7%. This is just from the WSJ : From Bloomberg: And, then the kicker which was “breaking news” on my phone this morning: For those who can afford it, these can all be good reasons to own a…
- Boo! (JK)
The summer from Hades packed a few more personal punches this past week just as the situation in the Middle East deteriorated and the bond market puked. The kiddo is now minus one appendix, and the world is contending with the prospect of less energy after escalations in the Middle East led to Saudia Arabia announcing that “it had halted pipeline transportation via its key Hormuz bypass.” While these events were unfolding our media went full Halloween with an AI psyop to scare the bejeezus out of everybody. I could not believe how little coverage events in the Middle East were receiving and…
- Extraordinary Complexity
If you were packing up the car last week in preparation for that beach trip you likely (and hopefully) missed the private credit fireworks. We are in the final month of Q3 and private credit and redemptions, or lack thereof, are back in the news. Both Blackstone and Cliffwater capped redemptions yet again while BlackRock’s CEO of its “troubled private credit fund” is headed for the exit “ after a long period of markdowns and government scrutiny of its valuation practices led the money manager to significantly overhaul the investment strategy last month.” In case you thought our friend Blue…
- Unintended Consequences
In a recent post on xTwitter, Dylan Ratigan did an excellent piece on the turmoil in the bond market and the administration’s actions to address it. He starts by recounting his days at Bloomberg in the early nineties when the bond market was seen as the most important beat. For Bloomberg to establish itself as a serious global financial news organization, the internal conviction was that they had to publish the smartest, most insightful, most defining bond market story in the world every single day. That was where primacy in financial news got established. If we could beat the Wall Street…
- Hunkered Down, But Looking Ahead
For weeks now, low, heavy clouds fat with water have hung over East TN. Every few hours they release their baggage and a deluge of water pours down, soaking the hills. In the mornings a magical mist encircles the smoky-colored mountains while humidity fogs the windows of the farmhouse. The garden has been ravaged by every moisture-related ailment you can imagine. Despite that, the harvest has been plentiful, though at times it seemed as if the rain would wash away the fruits of my labor entirely. Build, release, forage. The mood mirrors that of the one on social media and in the news…
- Deja Vu
- Condo Crisis 2.0?
- Debt Disasters
- Buckled Beams
- Can You Feel It?
- (Un)Comfortably Numb?
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