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TechAccounting is an accounting research blog that promotes the development of existing accounting standards and practices. Gravitate towards talking about US GAAP, crypto asset accounting, accounting technology developments, and financial reporting.

Can never have enough info about technical accounting issues and this newsletter delivers!

- The Dig

Deep Quarry

By Olga Usvyatsky

Deep Quarry unearths treasures hidden below the surface of the ocean of data.

Emerging Oceans

By Doug Stetzer

Exploring the transition of the ocean economy to a sustainable blue economy.

COPPOLA COMMENT

By Frances Coppola

Frances Coppola's comments. Mostly on banking, finance and economics, but sometimes other things.

Herb Greenberg | On the Street

Observations, opinions and insights on business, stocks, the markets and anything else I want to write about.

The maestro Herb Greenberg is a must read!

- The Dig

Don’t Look Down

By Corey S.

disordered prose, personal essays, short stories, and lyrical meanderings

Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter

Non-fiction horror stories. Politics, history, travel.

Good Eye: Movies and Baseball

By Noah Gittell

movies, baseball, and also baseball movies

Lots of wonderful in-depth analysis of movies that you may have forgotten or never seen. Matches my sensibilities.

- The Dig

Joseph Fasano

CREATIVE WRITING LESSONS AND TIPS. PAID SUBSCRIBERS GET EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL AT LEAST ONCE PER WEEK: MINI-LECTURES, ESSAYS, POETRY, BOOK EXCERPTS, and BONUS CONTENT.

THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES

By Hanif Kureishi

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

The Chancery Daily

By Chance the Lawyer

Inside the Delaware Court of Chancery, by Chance.

The Chancery Daily is the preeminent news source for in-depth analysis of Delaware Chancery litigation. I can not live without it!

- The Dig

Samuel’s Newsletter

By Samuel Alberto Mantilla Blanco

Análisis y opinión sobre la implementación de estándares internacionales

Buen recurso para estándares internacionales!

- The Dig

Samuel’s Newsletter

By Samuel Alberto Mantilla Blanco

Análisis y opinión sobre la implementación de estándares internacionales

Layers on Layers

By David Mihalyfy

Deep research at unexpected angles

Looking at things from a different POV.

- The Dig

This Week in Crypto Fraud

By Crypto Alien

The latest news and developments in crypto asset crime and investigations.

Do you need a reason why to keep up with this critical subject?

- The Dig

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.

I enjoy this newsletter immensely!

- The Dig

Dirty Bubble Media

Original investigations and insightful analysis of finance, fraud, and the dirtiest bubble of the 21st century.

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

I met George in person and got to spend some time with him in Greece in 2017 at a writer's workshop. He is a really great writer and teacher!

- The Dig

A Peek Behind the Numbers

Uncovering earnings manipulation and one-time benefits that Wall Street seldom talks about.

What a great idea for a newsletter!

- The Dig

Public Notice

By Aaron Rupar

Decolonizing Journalism

By Arturo Dominguez

A newsletter focused on telling the most important human rights and racial justice stories without a colonialist perspective.

Breaking the News

By James Fallows

Dispatches from a veteran reporter

AI Supremacy

By Michael Spencer

News at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, technology and business including Op-Eds, research summaries, guest contributions and valuable info about A.I. startups.

The Reframe

By A.R. Moxon

Weekly Essays on Politics and Fiction from author A.R. Moxon

Doomberg

Energy, finance, and the economy at-large | Doomberg readers are better informed and smartly entertained | Enter your email address below to receive free previews | Bonus access to 5 of our top articles is included in the Welcome email!

Scott's Substack

By Scott Cunningham (Professor

Deep dives into causal inference,("explainers"), an oral history of economics podcast told through economists' personal stories, announcements about workshops, letters from readers and random ChatGPT things.

I really enjoy learning about causal inference and love being brought into Professor Cunningham's world with his Saturday open tabs feature.

- The Dig

ESG Hound

By Eric Roesch

Sniffing out the latest in corporate compliance and sustainability

I highly recommend ESG Hound for great writing on sustainability.

- The Dig

Architecture and History of Chicagoland

By Rachel Freundt

Sharing photos and histories of Chicagoland's built environment.

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Calm Down

By Ben Dreyfuss

A substack about how the internet is making us all crazy.

Vicki Bryan's Bond Angle

A different way of looking at bond markets & market movers—especially troubled companies.

A great writer I have been reading for a long time. Highly recommend!

- The Dig

Dark Markets

By David Z. Morris

Bleeding-edge finance and technology analyst David Z. Morris, PhD (CoinDesk, Fortune) is your guide to the squirming underbelly of capitalism, where markets are irrational, money is imaginary, and the machines are even stupider than the rest of us.

Newcomer

Where technology and venture capital intersect: A deeply reported newsletter on the inner workings of the startup industry. Helmed by Eric Newcomer with writing from Madeline Renbarger.

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

I love, love, love this newsletter as much for the prose as the recipes.

- The Dig

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

Net Interest

By Marc Rubinstein

Financial sector insights from a former hedge fund manager with 25+ years experience analysing and investing in the industry.

The Intellectual Investor

By Vitaliy Katsenelson

Value Investing, Life/Philosophy and Classical Music Explained

ETCH

By Matthew Tower

5-minute, weekly updates on the EdTech ecosystem, with some opinion on the state of education attached

Press Watch by Dan Froomkin

An Intervention for American Political Journalism

BIG by Matt Stoller

The history and politics of monopoly power.

The quintessential source on monopoly power, competition, and antitrust. Matt is my guru on these subjects.

- The Dig

off the run by mary childs

By off the run (by mary childs)

a collection of the highest-quality runoff from my dayjob -- the lil anecdotes, the interesting behind-the-scenes, the good rage.

SHERO

By Amee Vanderpool

News that impacts women, but affects everyone.

The Racket (No longer on Substack)

By Jonathan M. Katz

Don't sign up here! Go to TheRacket.news instead.

Extra Points with Matt Brown

A newsletter on the off-the-field forces that shape college sports

Amazon Chronicles

By Tim Carmody

A weekly (for now) round-up of news about Amazon and the industries in its shadow.

Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Weekly analysis of the workings of the executive branch. Personnel is policy, and corporations know this all too well; we seek to counter industry influence on the workings of federal agencies, and hold government officials accountable to the public.

Conquest of the Useless

By Mic Wright

Honest media criticism from a complete arsehole.

The Foundation

By Peter Nickeas

Chicago, childhood trauma, violence. Notes from around here.

Melissa Gira Grant // Friday Letters

See: melissagira.ghost.io

PETITION

Curated financial news, analysis and commentary with an emphasis on distressed investing, restructuring and bankruptcy.