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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.

24,916 posts matched · last 24 months · refreshed hourly

Matched on 2 phrases
strait of hormuz hormuz

Momentum · how it moved

Sep 2024 Sep 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
20,570 posts
Oil & OPEC
17,511 posts
Shipping & insurance
9,676 posts
Markets & inflation
9,593 posts
Energy & gas
6,064 posts
Fertilizer & food
3,161 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

1,192 posts that week

  • Walk in the Pines #388
  • The Final Battle
  • Dipping my toes

Mar 19, 2026

1,091 posts that week

  • La settimana dell'Alieno #132
  • "Gooning Towards the Führer" as policy coordinat...
  • Walk in the Pines #389

Apr 2, 2026

1,238 posts that week

  • JMP Portfolio Pulse — Mid-Week Portfolio and Mac...
  • Iran War Arc | 6 of 8 | The Hormuz Deadline: Thr...
  • Conditions of Peace

Apr 9, 2026

1,257 posts that week

  • In The Post-Epstein World, You Always Have 10 Da...
  • From Oil to Growth Shock
  • 173: iran chose bitcoin

Apr 16, 2026

1,110 posts that week

  • Of Course, People Want To Tax the Rich
  • The State of Us, by Wiggia
  • The World After Trump

Who's covering it

#1 No1 Writer · No1's Daily Digest 171
#2 KING CAMBO Writer · Fear and Loathing In Trader Hell 143
#3 Ismaele Writer · GeoPolitiQ 140
#4 K61 Writer · Kommander: Rapporto di Area 128
#5 Oliver Boyd-Barrett Host · Empire, Communication and NATO Wars 125
#6 Izabella Kaminska Writer · The Blind Spot 104
#7 Paul Krugman Host · Paul Krugman 103
#8 phil dauber Writer · Morning Musings- Thoughts from Dauber Island 98
#9 Prof Robert Pape Host · Escalation Trap 89
#10 Michael Feller Host · Geopolitical Dispatch 89
#11 Ashley Truong Writer · Viet Hustler 87
#12 Francesco Sassi Writer · Energy Geopolitics & Statecraft 85
#13 Stu Turley Host · Energy News Beat 82
#14 Jānis Vīksne Writer · Geopolitical Musings 81
#15 John Ellis Host · News Items 80
#16 LoRosha Writer · LoRosha's Investment Desk 80
#17 Ayesha Tariq, CFA Writer · MacroVisor 78
#18 Bernard Hickey Host · 5 in 5 with ANZ 73
#19 Andy Fately Writer · FX Poetry 68
#20 Stephen Innes 🇨🇦 🇹🇭 Writer · The Dark Side Of The Boom 64

Sources — by share of their own coverage

Source Posts Share of their coverage
1 GeoPolitiQ 210 20.5%
2 No1's Daily Digest their beat 203 90.2%
3 Kommander: Rapporto di Area their beat 185 61.9%
4 Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast their beat 179 79.9%
5 Drop Site News 170 16.4%
6 Schwab Network volume 165 1.6%
7 Fear and Loathing In Trader Hell their beat 164 69.2%
8 The Dark Side Of The Boom 156 21.7%
9 Geddry 151 28.2%
10 GeopoliticsUnplugged Substack 141 27.2%

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

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