The Wall Street Skinny
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- Top in Finance
- #137
- Paid leaderboard
- #338
- Subscribers
- 30K
- Paid subscribers
- 100+ paid
- Badge
- Bestseller 100
- Followers
- 34K
- Paid plan
- $8/mo
- Recommends
- 9
- Podcast
- Yes
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Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
27K on Sep 10, 2026 → 30K on Oct 20, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #137 today · #137 a week ago · #156 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 27%
- Best rank seen
- #117
- Rank, 30 days
- +19 places
- Subscribers added
- +3.0K
- Followers added
- +3.2K
- Posts
- 3
- Reactions per post
- 25
- Reactions tracked
- 393
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Oct 4, 2026
since tracking began
since tracking began
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 16 posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: “Is this the next Madoff?” — 60 reactions on Aug 19, 2026.
Recent posts
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- I got the chance to ask Scott Bessent ONE QUESTION.
- “Is this the next Madoff?”
- Why Big Law is Deciding Who Wins the AI Race
- THIS Just Tanked Global Semiconductor Stocks
- Sorry, Mr. President: That’s Not How It Works
- Here’s why I walked away from $100s of thousands of dollars and a Vice President title at Morgan Stanley
- Are Fannie and Freddie Repeating the Mistakes of 2008?
- Practitioner's Guide to the Discounted Cash Flow "DCF"
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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 Wall Street Skinny. 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: Oct 20, 2026.