Substacks recommended by Ken Smith

Recommended by Ken Smith

Open Source Defense

100% gun rights, 0% culture war. Making people proud to care about gun rights.

Freedom isn't free. Philosophy, morality, legality, and politics of personal defense.

- Ken Smith

QTR’s Fringe Finance

By Quoth the Raven

Liberty. Finance. Bullshit.

The exposed nerve of financial media. Always interesting and always entertaining. I enjoy Chris' take and his principled adherence to the truth as he sees it. Slam poetry.

- Ken Smith

The Pragmatic Optimist

By Amrita Roy

The Pragmatic Optimist is an AI-focused investment research publication, where we help investors successfully navigate the evolving AI innovation landscape, and make long-term investments with proven alpha generating returns.

Thoughtful and thorough market and macroeconomic analysis.

- Ken Smith

Doomberg

A lateral-thinking approach to energy, finance, and geopolitics | Subscribe below for free previews of new articles | Click through to our About page for pricing and FAQ.

The best substack on Substack. Doomberg regularly unearths nonobvious truths about what's happening today. Their understanding of finance, and particularly energy, is unparalleled.

- Ken Smith

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Ted really is an honest broker. He writes about so much more than music but his knowledge of music and its history is encyclopedic. Beautifully written.

- Ken Smith

Edelweiss Capital Research

By Javier Pérez

Capital is sacred and scarce. We invest in businesses, people and cultures. Behind rebel capital allocators, incentives, and business moats.

Extremely disciplined thinking about companies and markets.

- Ken Smith

The Dirt Codes

By My Daily Dirt

Pressure is the path. It reveals what is real, sharpens discipline, and turns challenge into clarity, skill, and sustainable growth.

Pitchfork Papers

Questions that arise from the world of small business, finance and financial fluency, leadership in all its various guises, strategy, and thinking about the future.

With the heart of a poet, Sir Steven writes so beautifully, it doesn't matter what subject he's writing about. I learn something about him and about myself in every piece.

- Ken Smith