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WorldbyFlow for financial newsletter writers

A newsletter earns its subscribers by showing its work. WorldbyFlow maps the money behind a story, who gains and who pays, and every read publishes as a public page you can link from a post, so readers can check the sourcing themselves.

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Where this fits in your week

A paid newsletter is a weekly deadline and a standing promise to be right. The scans here do the structural groundwork under a post without writing a word of it: a money map, a cast list with leverage stated, the numbers with sources, a dossier on the fund in the news, and a graded read on why someone made the move everyone is talking about.

Lead scan

Follow the Money

2 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

Who is spending, who gains and who pays, mapped from the record. The structure of a story about money, ready to link.

Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know.
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Key Players

2 credits

Who holds what leverage in a market or on an issue, drawn from documented positions. The cast list under a post.

Try it on Private credit · The AI chip market · US shale

By the Numbers

2 credits

The figures on a topic with each one's source and interpretation. The numbers section, footnoted.

Try it on US household debt · Private credit · Sports betting

Fund & Institution

2 credits

A dossier on the fund or the investor in the news: stated strategy, documented activity, people. The background paragraph, sourced.

Try it on Berkshire Hathaway · Bridgewater · Citadel · ARK Invest

Why They Did It

3 credits

Why a company or an investor made the move everyone is writing about, with candidate explanations graded against the record.

Try it on Elon Musk buying Twitter · Michael Burry's short of the housing market · Warren Buffett's bet on Japanese trading houses
A working path

From a first run to a result you can hand over

The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.

01

Run Follow the Money on next week's topic

The flows with who gains and who pays. Publish the read as a page and link it from the post so readers can check it.

2 credits
02

Run Key Players for the cast

Who matters and why, from the record. The paragraph that usually takes the longest.

2 credits
03

Run Why They Did It on the move of the week

The graded explanations, sourced. Your take sits on top of a read the audience can see.

3 credits
04

Link it

Publish the read as a public page and link it from the newsletter. Readers who want the sourcing get it; you get the credit for showing it.

No credits.
The research bill for this path
2 + 2 + 3 = 7 credits · a Standard plan carries 20 a month
What comes back

A result whose claims carry their grades

Sourced, not asserted

Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question

Ready to hand over

Publish the read as a public page linked from the post, so subscribers can open the sources behind your argument.

Built to be argued with

Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →

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Research already published in this shape

Stablecoin Reserve Income: From User Deposits to Issuer Profit

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Stablecoin holders fund a zero-interest liability that issuers convert into a Treasury-yield asset — Tether keeps essentially all of that spread while Circle is contractually forced to hand roughly half of its gross reserve…

Follow the Money · August 18, 2026
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Run Follow the Money on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. If a colleague sent you here with an invitation, the credits land on your account when you sign up.

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