Matt Levine explores Wall Street and finance through the incentives, contracts and unusual situations behind the headlines, with room for curiosity and humor.
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92 sources · Curated, not exhaustivePublisher links and editorial notes
The Financial Times examines market arguments, valuations and macroeconomic forces, helping readers test the assumptions behind prevailing investment narratives and the day’s price moves.
Publication / Newsletter
FT Alphaville
An inquisitive Financial Times publication exploring market plumbing, economic claims, corporate finance and unusual data, with a free website and an email edition.
A collection of Reuters email briefings spanning world news, business and markets, allowing readers to choose the desks and subjects that match their interests.
Publication / Newsletter
The Wall Street Journal Newsletters
The Journal’s collection of email products offers different routes into business, markets, economics and other reporting, with authorship and access varying by selection.
Newsletter
Axios Markets
A concise markets-and-economy briefing from Emily Peck and Matt Phillips, pairing selected developments with context that helps readers understand why the financial story matters.
A concise business and investing briefing that connects company developments, economic shifts and market news for readers building a dependable daily information habit.
Newsletter / Publication
Finimize Daily Brief
A short finance newsletter explaining important market stories and their investment implications, with approachable analyst commentary and an optional paid research offering beyond the email.
Newsletter
The Diff
Company analysis and financial ideas that connect technology, market behavior, and economic incentives, with an emphasis on changes whose consequences emerge over years.
Ben Thompson analyzes the business models and competitive strategies of technology and media companies, explaining how their choices reshape markets and society.
Newsletter
Not Boring
Optimistic essays on ambitious startups, technology, and business strategy, combining company stories with explorations of the scientific and industrial changes they pursue.
Weekly stories explaining how financial businesses work, connecting banks, investors and fintech companies with the incentives and history behind their decisions and business models.
Data informed essays about building wealth, understanding market risk and making financial decisions, with charts that connect investing research to everyday choices.
Publication
Collab Fund essays
Essays from Collaborative Fund on investing, human behavior, and business.
Publication / Newsletter
Banker on Wheels
A European focused investing resource whose free Weekend Reading email curates market perspectives, portfolio ideas and practical links for people managing their own money.
Long-form audio explorations of companies and the paths that made them consequential.
Podcast / Publication
Colossus
A network of business and investing conversations, including Invest Like the Best.
Podcast
Rational Reminder
A podcast about sensible investing, research, and financial decisions.
Educational videos on investing, personal finance, and economics.
Video / Podcast
Patrick Boyle On Finance
Video and audio commentary on finance, with educational material on quantitative finance.
Community
r/investing
An open discussion community for investing questions and opinions.
Community
Value Investors Club
A community built around investment write-ups and discussion.
Community / Research tool
TradingView
Charting tools, market information, and a community of published trading ideas.
Research tool
Koyfin
A platform for financial dashboards, company research, and market analysis.
Official releases, speeches, and research feeds from the Federal Reserve Board.
Economic charts and explanations from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Primary source
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Official U.S. labor-market and price statistics, with release feeds.
The SEC’s public filing search for company disclosures and offering documents.
Primary source
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Official U.S. economic statistics, including the PCE price index.
Newsletter
Bloomberg Morning Briefing Americas
Bloomberg’s Americas morning email provides an opening view of the news agenda, giving readers a starting point for the business and market day.
Newsletter
Bloomberg Points of Return
John Authers uses charts and commentary to explore global markets and investing, offering a framework for readers who want to examine financial narratives carefully.
Newsletter
Reuters Morning Bid U.S.
Mike Dolan’s Reuters briefing looks ahead to the U.S. market day, connecting international developments with the economic events and financial themes investors are watching.
Newsletter
WSJ Markets A.M.
Spencer Jakab prepares readers for the market day with investing analysis focused on the companies, sectors and financial questions shaping the trading agenda.
Newsletter
FT Due Diligence
An FT briefing on dealmaking, private equity and corporate finance, combining reported developments with analysis of the institutions and people shaping major transactions.
Newsletter
FT Moral Money
Simon Mundy examines how business and finance respond to environmental and social pressures, connecting sustainability debates with corporate decisions, investment and economic policy.
Newsletter
The New York Times DealBook
DealBook follows the intersection of business and finance through The New York Times’ reporting, with Andrew Ross Sorkin serving as founder and editor-at-large.
Newsletter
Semafor Business
Liz Hoffman and Rohan Goswami report on Wall Street, corporate leadership and dealmaking in a twice-weekly briefing focused on the institutions shaping business.
A lively daily business briefing that mixes company and economic news with technology, culture and useful context for readers establishing a morning reading routine.
Newsletter
Snacks
An accessible market and business newsletter pairing conversational explanations with short news items, useful for readers who want financial developments connected to everyday life.
Newsletter
Exec Sum
A daily financial news roundup from Litquidity, combining Wall Street and technology headlines with deal coverage and the humor of finance workplace culture.
Newsletter
EntryPoint
A free premarket newsletter linking macroeconomic themes to individual stocks, with charts, technical context and data on what traders are doing on Robinhood.
Newsletter
The Hustle
A business and technology newsletter drawn to unusual companies, emerging trends and overlooked industries, with concise daily stories and longer original reporting on Sundays.
Dan Primack’s compact briefing on venture capital, private equity and corporate transactions, combining a reported opening perspective with a structured scan of deal activity.
Newsletter
Fortune Term Sheet
Fortune’s weekday briefing on venture capital, private equity and dealmaking, combining reported stories about investors and startups with a broader view of capital activity.
Newsletter
StrictlyVC
A daily venture capital newsletter following startups, investors and the wider technology industry, with a public archive and an associated program of industry events.
Newsletter
PitchBook Daily Pitch
PitchBook’s daily private-market news offering, with separate venture capital and private equity coverage choices that connect reported developments with the publisher’s wider research.
Newsletter
Crunchbase Daily
A weekday email delivering Crunchbase News reporting on startups, venture funding and private-company trends, with particular value for readers who like data-supported business coverage.
Newsletter
Advisor Upside
A specialist newsletter for financial advisors, combining industry developments and investment context with financial planning, practice management and the technology used to serve clients.
Newsletter
ETF Upside
A specialist ETF newsletter for advisors and capital allocators, following fund launches, issuer strategy and industry developments alongside the investment questions raised by new products.
Newsletter
The Overshoot
Matthew Klein connects economic data, international financial flows, and policy decisions in detailed essays explaining how the global economy shapes financial markets.
Joseph Politano uses charts and economic research to explain labor markets, inflation, trade, investment, and the policy choices shaping everyday economic conditions.
Newsletter
Noahpinion
Noah Smith’s essays apply an economics perspective to technology, industrial policy, geopolitics, and culture, combining research references with a clearly expressed personal viewpoint.
Newsletter
The Macro Compass
Alfonso Peccatiello explains monetary mechanics, macroeconomic cycles, and portfolio decisions through a free newsletter alongside paid research, investment strategy, and educational products.
Newsletter
The MacroTourist
Kevin Muir examines market positioning, macroeconomic policy, and trading mechanics, combining longer essays with charts and observations informed by his own trading experience.
Newsletter
Doomberg
An industrial perspective on energy, finance, and geopolitics, using pointed essays to examine physical constraints, policy incentives, and the consequences of economic choices.
Lyn Alden’s free investment letter combines macroeconomic analysis, valuations, asset allocation, and a real-money model portfolio to explain changing opportunities across major asset classes.
Newsletter
The Daily Shot
A daily visual briefing that organizes economic and market charts by region and asset class, helping professional readers scan global macroeconomic developments efficiently.
Newsletter
Chartbook
Adam Tooze places contemporary economics and geopolitics in historical context through substantial essays, charts, research references, and wide-ranging collections of recommended reading.
Newsletter
CalculatedRisk Newsletter
Bill McBride’s active newsletter provides detailed U.S. housing analysis, following construction, sales, inventory, prices, mortgage conditions, and regional differences through data and charts.
Newsletter
ResiClub
ResiClub follows U.S. housing through regional price and inventory data, homebuilder reporting, mortgage conditions, and analysis of rental investors and residential market shifts.
Newsletter
CRE Daily
A concise commercial real estate briefing covering major transactions, financing, development, property sectors, and market trends, with links to expanded reporting and analysis.
Newsletter
The Breakdown
Byron Gilliam’s daily Blockworks newsletter explores crypto and financial markets through explanatory essays, curated links, charts, and reflections on technology and investment ideas.
Newsletter
State of Crypto
CoinDesk’s weekly policy newsletter examines how legislation, regulators, courts, and political decisions shape cryptocurrency markets, with reporting and context from Nikhilesh De.
Newsletter
A Wealth of Common Sense
Ben Carlson uses market history, charts and plain language to explain investing, personal finance and the behavioral choices that shape long term financial outcomes.
Newsletter
The Irrelevant Investor
Michael Batnick’s market commentary combines charts, investor psychology and a practitioner’s perspective on the mistakes, emotions and decisions that influence investment outcomes over time.
Oaktree’s public investment memos examine risk, market cycles and investor psychology, using Howard Marks’s experience to frame difficult decisions under uncertainty for investors.
Newsletter
The Rational Walk
Reflective essays on investing, Berkshire Hathaway, books and decision making, with a long public archive and new writing distributed through a free email subscription.
Newsletter
Compounding Quality
Research on quality businesses and long term compounding, combining investing lessons with company analysis, valuation work and updates on the publisher’s own portfolio.
Newsletter
Investment Talk
Thoughtful essays about businesses, investing process and human behavior, written from a product professional’s perspective with room for uncertainty, curiosity and changing one’s mind.
Newsletter
Yet Another Value Blog
Equity research focused on special situations, misunderstood businesses and unusual market setups, with detailed investment theses, risk discussions and follow ups on earlier ideas.
Newsletter
Money with Katie
A weekly newsletter connecting personal finance with work, culture and economic systems, helping readers think through money decisions and the assumptions behind conventional advice.
Newsletter
HumbleDollar
Practical personal finance and retirement writing from a broad contributor community, combining lived experience with reflections on saving, investing and using money purposefully.
Newsletter
Fintech Takes
Alex Johnson analyzes the business decisions behind fintech and banking, connecting product design, customer behavior, regulation and industry incentives through a twice weekly newsletter.
Newsletter
Fintech Brainfood
Simon Taylor interprets developments in fintech, payments, banking and AI, combining industry news with analysis of the products and infrastructure changing how money moves.
Newsletter
The Generalist
Company case studies, founder interviews, and venture capital analysis that explain how important technology businesses operate and what their development means for investors.
Newsletter
Benedict's Newsletter
A weekly selection of consequential technology developments, with commentary that puts individual announcements and emerging ideas into a broader business and industry context.
Newsletter
SemiAnalysis
Detailed research on semiconductors and AI infrastructure, connecting chip design, manufacturing, datacenters, and model economics with the businesses and supply chains behind them.
Jamin Ball's weekly analysis of AI and software companies pairs industry commentary with valuation comparisons and operating metrics for publicly traded cloud businesses.
Newsletter
Big Technology
Original reporting and interviews on major technology companies, AI, and society, focused on the internal decisions and incentives that explain the public headlines.
Newsletter
Platformer
Independent reporting on AI, social platforms, and technology governance, examining how decisions inside powerful companies affect workers, public debate, and everyday life.
Newsletter
Lenny's Newsletter
Researched advice on building products, driving growth, and developing a career, with practical frameworks and contributions from experienced founders, operators, and product leaders.
Newsletter
Fintech Business Weekly
Reporting and analysis of banking, fintech, and crypto, with close attention to regulation, bank partnerships, consumer finance, and the business models behind industry developments.
Newsletter
Fintech Blueprint
Analysis of fintech, decentralized finance, and AI that connects emerging technology with financial services strategy, company economics, and the practical work of building businesses.
Newsletter
Edge by Quartr
Quartr's free newsletter presents illustrated company stories and business deep dives, explaining how familiar brands and less obvious industry leaders developed over time.
Newsletter
MBI Deep Dives
Detailed public-company research, financial models, and recurring investing notes from a generalist seeking to understand business quality, valuation, and the assumptions behind an investment case.
Newsletter
Wall Street Breakfast
A compact morning briefing connecting financial headlines, company developments, global markets, and the economic calendar before the US trading session begins.
Newsletter
Need to Know
MarketWatch's morning newsletter highlights an investing argument and the market developments readers should understand before the US trading day gets underway.
Newsletter
Review & Preview
An evening briefing from Barron's that reviews consequential market news and puts the next trading day's developments into context for investors.
Newsletter
Smart Investor
Morningstar's Saturday newsletter gathers its latest coverage of major market trends and emerging investment opportunities into a weekly reading list for investors.
Newsletter
The Kiplinger Letter
A paid weekly business forecasting letter examining the economy, Washington policy, industries, and emerging developments that could affect business and investment decisions.
Newsletter
Fidelity Viewpoints
A free weekly email combining market and investing insights with practical coverage of retirement, taxes, estate planning, and the financial decisions of everyday life.
Newsletter
Morning Squawk
CNBC's morning email brings together business and market developments, helping readers establish the day's financial context and decide which stories deserve a closer look.
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