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- Top in Finance
- #207
- Subscribers
- 18K
- Paid subscribers
- 100+ paid
- Badge
- Bestseller 100
- Followers
- 36K
- Paid plan
- $5/mo
- Recommends
- 65
- Podcast
- Yes
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Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
18K on Sep 10, 2026 → 18K on Oct 20, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #207 today · #244 a week ago · #236 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 41 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 40%
- Best rank seen
- #207
- Rank, 7 days
- +37 places
- Rank, 30 days
- +29 places
- Followers added
- +429
- Posts
- 8
- Reactions per post
- 46
- Reactions tracked
- 920
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Oct 20, 2026
since tracking began
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 20 posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: The Next Battle for Progressives Won’t Be Against Republicans — 100 reactions on Aug 6, 2026.
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