The Lens

Substack by Stephanie Kelton · launched Jul 28, 2021

Economic analysis, research, and commentary using the lens of MMT

Top in Finance
#184
Paid leaderboard
#319
Subscribers
28K

rounded by Substack

Paid subscribers
100+ paid
Badge
Bestseller 100
Followers
43K
Paid plan
$7/mo
Recommends
5

other newsletters

Growth history

Subscribers (thousands, nightly)

29K on Sep 10, 2026 → 28K on Sep 30, 2026

Followers (thousands, nightly)

Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #184 today · #205 a week ago

Stats worth sharing

Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 21 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.

Percentile
Top 36%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen
#182

on Sep 29, 2026

Subscribers added
−1.0K

since tracking began

Followers added
−30

since tracking began

Posts
2

last 30 days

Reactions per post
74

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked
1.0K

across 14 posts

Tickers covered
1

in tracked posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: The Deficit Myth Turns 5 — 129 reactions on Jun 9, 2025.

The Lens — 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: The Lens. 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: Sep 30, 2026.