MacroStack
Meta-framing the framers, in real time.
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This one was tough. Macro writers don’t sit neatly inside siloed specialisms, bridging is the very nature of structural thinking; any rigid taxonomy ends up either too coarse to be useful or too narrow to reflect how anyone actually writes. Coverage is also dynamic through time in line with the market itself.
So I built it the other way around. I created a frequency counter table which frames the macro ecosystem across authors in real time, ranked by their MarketStack Index position. Each author’s profile falls out as a dynamic by-product rather than a static picture.
The meta-frame
11 sub-categories are grouped into four macro lanes, each split by intent, not just subject:
Pure Macro — Briefings, Frameworks, Regimes. Weekly aggregators and chart packs; framework-builders (cycles, four quadrants, debt cycle); regime-callers (dollar debasement, monetary reset, debt jubilee).
Economy — Econ Data, Inflation, Supply Chain. The high-frequency desks parsing CPI, jobs, ISM — and the writers who turn those prints into a cycle thesis.
Policy — Fed, Other CBs. FOMC operations, dot plots, swap lines, BoJ. People and machinery, week by week.
World — Geopolitics, China & EM, FX. Cross-border flows, dedollarization, the financial plumbing of empire.
This is the meta-frame.
The actual map is dynamic
MacroStack is similar to the content library in that it links out directly to posts, meaning you can quickly navigate to a particular author’s thinking on a particular sub-category.
Click on either the sub-category such as ‘Regimes’ to pull up all posts in that sub-category…
Or on the author’s frequency count within that sub-category to pull up all posts from that author in that sub-category, e.g. Quoth the Raven on Geopolitics:
…or Citrini on the Fed:
Author overlays: diagnostic ↔ narrative + the market lens
Author chips carry a coloured border showing where the writer sits on a single axis: bronze for diagnostic (data-first, what just printed), silver for narrative (regime-first, what era are we in), gradient for both. It tells you in one glance whether you’re about to read a chart pack or a 4,000-word essay on the structural breakdown of the dollar system.
A green graph icon flags writers who tie macro reads directly into asset pricing and risk positioning — the trader-adjacent wing. Toggle Markets only above the table to filter the index down to those voices. Useful when you want regime takes you can trade against, not commentary that sits one step removed.
Why the rank matters
The number on the left is the writer’s MSI rank — the MarketStack Index composite of paid-readership momentum. So MacroStack isn’t just who writes about what; it’s a layered signal of author credibility. The table re-orders itself as the index moves.
A few patterns it surfaces:
Specialists — BoJ Watchtower lights up a single cell (NON-Fed)
Generalists — Bob Elliott spans Frameworks, Economy and Policy
Where to find it
MacroStack sits in the StackMaps tab alongside BondStack.
V1 covers 2,298 posts.
Let me know what you think!
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