r/Economics

About r/Economics

In its own words:

Reddit's largest economics community. Serving as a central forum for users to read, discuss, and learn more about topics related to the economic discipline. We have written rules to support this aim and welcome those who want to learn and those who want to contribute. We aim to foster an environment where everybody feels safe and welcomed and where people feel encouraged to have healthy and productive discuss

The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 3,154 subscribers (+0.06%). Among the 9 communities on our economics list it is the largest.

What sets r/Economics apart

Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (12:00 UTC) sees about 7.0× as many posts as the quietest (03:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/Economics went up from 5,765,682 to 5,778,325 subscribers (+12.6K, +0.22%). That is about 316 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.

Top posts on r/Economics this week

The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Oct 30, 2026).

1. Wages Fall to 43% of U.S. Gross Domestic Income, Lowest Since 1929u/ApprehensiveBug1774 · Oct 25 · link
2. Donald Trump has been a disaster for rural Americau/OtherwiseCanary8971 · Oct 26 · link
3. Trump says Iran war will end 'when I want it to' as costs reportedly balloon to $47 billionu/One-Emu-1103 · Oct 28 · link
4. The Trump admin said energy costs were a small price to pay in Iran war, but U.S. consumers are paying nearly 8x more than anyone else in fuel costsu/Appropriate-Till9598 · Oct 27 · link
5. US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study findsu/RareEarthPetal · Oct 25 · link
6. Alphabet falls 10% in premarket, putting it on course for its biggest ever post-earnings dropu/One-Emu-1103 · Oct 29 · link
7. Hundreds of ‘cruise for life’ passengers stranded in Cambodia due to soaring fuel costsu/marketrent · Oct 29 · link
8. California billionaire tax loses support as opposition spending tops $429 millionu/runswithscissors475 · Oct 28 · link
9. Reality Bites for Gen Xers doing retirement math: just 49% say they're on track, the worst of any generationu/Sufficient_Fuel5269 · Oct 25 · link
10. Iran war cost increases to $47 billionu/jediporcupine · Oct 28 · link

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Economics, from 2019 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

1. Economist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a "Deep, Deep Recession"u/BothZookeepergame612 · Feb 20, 2025 · link
2. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that he has officially balanced the NYC budget, reducing a $12 billion budget deficit to 0, and confirms that property taxes will not be raised.u/Scary_Firefighter181 · May 12, 2026 · link
3. 65% of Americans support monthly $2,000 COVID stimulus payments, new poll showsu/monkfreedom · Jan 7, 2021 · link
4. Republicans Less Trusted on Economy Than Democrats For First Time in Yearsu/Spiderwig144 · Apr 15, 2025 · link
5. Trump's first 50 days mark one of the worst starts for the S&P 500 under any presidencyu/BothZookeepergame612 · Apr 3, 2025 · link
6. US tourism to suffer huge '£49 billion drop' under Donald Trumpu/greenmyrtle · Mar 25, 2025 · link
7. Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn't reach employeesu/Kitties_titties420 · Jul 8, 2022 · 41,448 points · 386 comments · link
8. Trudeau announces Canada ban on Russian oil imports. “Today, we are announcing a ban on all imports of crude oil from Russia, an industry that has benefited President Putin and his oligarchs greatly,”u/dannylenwinn · Feb 28, 2022 · 37,944 points · 887 comments · link
9. Trump Admin disbands panels responsible for calculating GDP and collecting economic datau/bent_neck_geek · Mar 9, 2025 · link
10. CNBC: Harris to propose federal ban on 'corporate price-gouging' in food and groceriesu/BothZookeepergame612 · Aug 15, 2024 · link

What r/Economics talks about

We read the titles of 148 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “trump”, “china”, “prices”, “billion” and “iran”. Other frequent themes are costs, trade, tariffs, war, tax and deal. Recurring phrases include “iran war”, “billionaire tax”, “trade deal” and “south korea”. By format, 99% are links and 1% are videos.

• trump 18
• china 11
• prices 10
• billion 10
• iran 10
• costs 10
• trade 8
• tariffs 7
• war 7
• tax 6
• deal 6
• high 6
• inflation 6
• economy 6
• korea 6
• treasury 5
• oil 5
• japan 5

Popular post flairs: News (84), Editorial (7), Research Summary (7), Research (5), Blog (4), Statistics (4).

Activity and best time to post

r/Economics gets about 22 new posts a day. The public archive holds 364,054 posts and 7,541,834 comments in total, about 20.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (28 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (10). Posting peaks around 12:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.

Rules of r/Economics

The moderators of r/Economics list 5 rules. In short:

1. Rule I: Economics Perspective
2. Rule II: Economics Relevance
3. Rule III: Original Source, No Editorializing Title
4. Rule IV: Personal Attack
5. Rule VI: Comment Topicality

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/Economics and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Oct 30, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Economics.