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Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
70K on Sep 17, 2026 → 63K on Oct 21, 2026
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Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #21 today · #21 a week ago · #26 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 17, 2026 — 42 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 4%
- Best rank seen
- #21
- Rank, 30 days
- +5 places
- Followers added
- −8.1K
- Posts
- 51
- Reactions tracked
- 19
- Tickers covered
- 3
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Oct 28, 2026
since tracking began
last 30 days
across 56 posts
in tracked posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: 1 in 7 Home Buyers Are Walking Away Before Closing — 2 reactions on Oct 19, 2026.
Recent posts
- Trump Offers $1 Million to Anyone Who Reports Voter Fraud Leading to Conviction
Oct. 23, 2026. Trump traveled to Florida to rally for local Republican candidates ahead of next week's midterm elections. Alex Wong/Getty Images Good evening from the coast. A retired county clerk in Wisconsin worked the polls for 30 years, and she wrote to me tonight with a question about a post she read. If a neighbor reports her table to collect $1 mil…
- Three Elections in 10 Days: How Brazil, Israel, and the US Connect
A retired dental hygienist in Florida keeps $20,000 in a fund that holds Brazilian stocks, a slice she bought for the dividends. On Monday the index behind it fell 13.88% and the currency fell with it, and she asked me whether the world turned against her or whether she owned a bet she did not know she had made. My answer is the second, and the lesson re…
- Is Anthropic pulling a SpaceX?
Good morning from the coast. A retired pharmacist in Arizona with $150,000 in a brokerage account wrote to me last night. She read that Anthropic lost $80 billion in six months, and asked me how a company with that loss can talk about being worth $2 trillion. The prospectus went public on Monday morning, and it explains the big number. Here is what sits u…
- Oil Above All: How Washington Breaks the Rules for Total Control of the Fuel Market
Good afternoon from the coast. A retired factory worker in Maine pays $1,727 each fall to fill her 275-gallon heating oil tank. With diesel holding near a national average of $6.28, high-minded geopolitical speeches mean nothing to her. She asks bluntly: why are we trading with Moscow while drafting strike plans for Tehran? The answer is simple: an Americ…
- Four Days, Three Tech Giants, One Fed Meeting: Sizing This Week’s Risk
Good morning from the coast. A retired postal worker in Georgia holds $250,000 in an S&P 500 fund that lost about $1,170 last week, its second weekly loss in a row. She asked me what this week will decide. Three companies, a central bank and two government reports share the same four days. Here is the calendar, the figures that matter to me and my view go…
- Why the 10-Year Treasury Yield Finally Broke Below 5%
Good evening from the coast. A retired electrician in Tennessee bought $50,000 of 10-year Treasury notes on Wednesday at a yield of 5.13%. By Thursday afternoon new notes paid about 4.95%, which put his notes about $695 ahead on paper. He asked me whether he got lucky or got fooled. The answer depends on why the yield fell, and the reason is more worrying…
- One Russian Tanker Is Bound for New York. Here Is What It Changes.
A Kansas farmer topped off a 1,000-gallon tank this week at $6.31 a gallon, which is $6,309, against $3,629 a year ago, a gap of $2,680 for the same fuel, with the harvest under way. On Monday the president announced $8 billion in aid for farmers at a rally in Park City, Kansas. On Thursday a Russian tanker loaded 40,000 tons of diesel at the Baltic port…
- Why Harvard’s 63% Youth Headline Represents Only 21% of Gen Z
Good morning from the coast. A retired bookkeeper in Ohio asked her 24-year-old grandson last week whether he plans to vote on November 3. He shrugged and said nothing on the ballot changes his rent. A new Harvard poll shows how many young adults feel like him, and who its headline number leaves out. The headline says close to 2 in 3 young voters are moti…
- Uber Says Robotaxis Need Human Drivers. What the Pay Data Shows
Good afternoon from the coast. A retired nurse in Austin drives for Uber three evenings a week to cover her car insurance and groceries. This week she read that Uber plans to keep human drivers beside its robotaxis, and she wants to know how long that lasts. Uber’s own head of autonomous mobility concedes that robotaxi economics need work, and a firm that…
- Midterms called a "worst case" for stocks
Good morning from the coast. A retired machinist with $400,000 in a rollover IRA reads a headline calling the midterms a worst case for stocks, and he wonders whether to move to cash before November 3. The headline rests on one table, and the table is real, but it leaves out three things. Here is the table, the history around it and the meeting that comes…
- Anthropic’s IPO Filing Could Come as Early as Friday
Good morning from the coast. A retired schoolteacher with $60,000 in her IRA reads that Anthropic could file its IPO prospectus as early as Friday, and she wonders whether to ask her broker for a piece of it. The company has given no date, and the numbers that surfaced on Tuesday come from a draft. Here is what the reports say, what the draft shows and wh…
- Putin, Xi and Trump May Meet in China. Here Is the Calendar.
Good evening from the coast. A retiree who tows a camper with a diesel truck filled a 25-gallon tank on Friday, October 9, at the national average of $6.28 per gallon, against $3.68 a year ago. That is $65 more for one fill-up and $780 more over twelve. Minutes after Trump announced a Russian diesel deal that day, Treasury lifted sanctions on the fuel. Un…
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