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Strait of Hormuz

A geopolitical flashpoint moving through business, energy, and security podcasts and newsletters in near-real-time — the July 2026 Iran/oil-shipping crisis, as it broke.

29,499 posts matched · last 24 months · refreshed hourly

Matched on 2 phrases
strait of hormuz hormuz

Momentum · how it moved

Oct 2024 Oct 2026

Weekly matches as a share of all posts that week — normalized so the line reflects real momentum, not just corpus growth.

The ripples — surrounding topics in Hormuz coverage

Iran & Israel
24,218 posts
Oil & OPEC
20,986 posts
Shipping & insurance
11,707 posts
Markets & inflation
11,368 posts
Energy & gas
7,294 posts
Fertilizer & food
3,742 posts

Each is Hormuz coverage that also touches this theme — a co-occurrence, self-filtered to themes with real signal.

Peak weeks — when it spiked

Mar 12, 2026

1,300 posts that week

  • The Watch: Four Horsemen —
  • Thematic Basket: Biotech II —
  • Maritime Activity in Strait of Hormuz —

Mar 19, 2026

1,203 posts that week

  • Guerra all'Iran — Terza Settimana —
  • A Compounding Oil Shock: Part III —
  • Dāgh —

Apr 2, 2026

1,333 posts that week

  • Not an Oil Shock, a System Crisis: How America I... —
  • Cessez-le-feu avec l'Iran ; Streep et Wintour en... —
  • Trump's Iran Speech & Debating the Deal —

Apr 9, 2026

1,357 posts that week

  • Going Deeper: The 25th Amendment —
  • The Berkshire Beat: April 10, 2026 —
  • Iran Ceasefire Explained: Winners, Losers, and W... —

Apr 16, 2026

1,192 posts that week

  • Issue 08: Which Technologies Will Gain From the... —
  • Pénurie de carburant d'aviation ; Voleurs de car... —
  • Playing With Your Money - The Ceasefire Is Exten... —

Who's covering it

#1 No1 Writer · No1's Daily Digest 175
#2 Ismaele Writer · GeoPolitiQ 147
#3 KING CAMBO Writer · Fear and Loathing In Trader Hell 143
#4 K61 Writer · Kommander: Rapporto di Area 131
#5 Oliver Boyd-Barrett Host · Empire, Communication and NATO Wars 128
#6 Heather Cox Richardson Host · Letters from an American 109
#7 Paul Krugman Host · Paul Krugman 107
#8 Izabella Kaminska Host · The Blind Spot 105
#9 Prof Robert Pape Host · Escalation Trap 98
#10 Michael Feller Host · Geopolitical Dispatch 98
#11 phil dauber Writer · Morning Musings- Thoughts from Dauber Island 98
#12 Mary Geddry Host · Geddry 97
#13 Ashley Truong Writer · Viet Hustler 92
#14 Francesco Sassi Writer · Energy Geopolitics & Statecraft 92
#15 Jānis Vīksne Writer · Geopolitical Musings 86
#16 Ayesha Tariq, CFA Writer · MacroVisor 84
#17 Stu Turley Host · Energy News Beat 84
#18 LoRosha Writer · LoRosha's Investment Desk 84
#19 John Ellis Host · News Items 81
#20 Bernard Hickey Host · The Kākā by Bernard Hickey 74

Sources — by share of their own coverage

Source Posts Share of their coverage
1 GeopoliticsUnplugged Substack their beat 289 51%
2 GeoPolitiQ 263 23.6%
3 No1's Daily Digest their beat 249 91.9%
4 Geddry their beat 240 37%
5 Drop Site News 225 19.8%
6 Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast their beat 222 82.2%
7 The Dark Side Of The Boom 211 17.4%
8 Kommander: Rapporto di Area their beat 199 56.9%
9 Fear and Loathing In Trader Hell their beat 181 66.1%
10 Schwab Network volume 174 1.5%

Share of coverage separates a beat from a mention: a show spending most of its output here (“their beat”) reads very differently from a big publisher where this is a sliver of a firehose (“volume”). Both are ranked by raw matching posts.

Data notes

Generated from live data, refreshed hourly · last updated 14 hours ago

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