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Best Investing Podcasts
18 podcasts that provide institutional-grade analysis for free. Value investing, macro commentary, venture capital, real estate, and the perspectives that help you think better about markets.
How I Use Podcasts
I listen to investing podcasts during my morning routine, while driving, and while doing kiteboarding gear prep. They supplement — but never replace — reading primary sources, financial statements, and court filings.
The podcasts below are ones I have listened to repeatedly over multiple years. I am not recommending them because they are popular — I am recommending them because they have made me a better investor. Pair them with the best value investing books and the best investing tools for a complete education.
Top 4 Picks
If you only have time for four podcasts, make it these.
Investors Podcast — We Study Billionaires
Hosted by Stig Brodersen & Clay Finck · 2-3x per week
The gold standard of investing podcasts. Deep analysis of Buffett, Munger, value investing principles, and current market opportunities. The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting recaps are essential listening. Consistently one of the top business podcasts globally.
Why Glen listens: If you want to understand how the world's greatest investors think, this is where you start. They break down complex concepts without dumbing them down.
The All-In Podcast
Hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, David Friedberg · Weekly
Four tech billionaires debate markets, politics, technology, and everything in between. Raw, unfiltered opinions from people with real money on the line. The economics discussions are surprisingly deep for what started as a casual format.
Why Glen listens: Real-time market commentary from people who actually manage capital. Their SPAC and crypto analysis has been particularly insightful — both the wins and the misses.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy — Invest Like the Best
Hosted by Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Weekly
Long-form interviews with the best investors, founders, and thinkers in the world. O'Shaughnessy's preparation is exceptional — he reads everything his guests have written before each interview. Deep dives into business models, competitive advantages, and investment frameworks.
Why Glen listens: The guest list alone makes this essential. You will hear from portfolio managers, CEOs, and academics who rarely do media. The business breakdowns are at an institutional level.
Acquired
Hosted by Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal · Biweekly
Multi-hour deep dives into the greatest business stories ever. Episodes on Berkshire Hathaway, NVIDIA, LVMH, Costco, and more. Each episode is a masterclass in business analysis — they cover founding stories, competitive dynamics, and what made each company exceptional.
Why Glen listens: The quality of research is unmatched in podcasting. Their Berkshire Hathaway and NVIDIA episodes alone are worth hundreds of hours of business school.
Podcasts by Category
Find the shows that match your investing style and interests.
Value Investing
Deep dives into intrinsic value, margin of safety, and the frameworks of Buffett, Graham, and Munger.
Macro & Economics
Interest rates, currencies, commodities, and the global forces that shape every portfolio.
Venture, Startups & Business
Technology, entrepreneurship, and the business models creating tomorrow's wealth.
Real Estate
Multifamily, syndication, house hacking, and the asset class that has created more millionaires than any other.
General Markets & Investing
Broad market analysis, portfolio strategy, and investing culture from multiple angles.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy — Invest Like the Best
Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Acquired
Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal
The Meb Faber Show
Meb Faber
Chat with Traders
Aaron Fifield
Capital Allocators
Ted Seides
The Compound and Friends
Josh Brown, Michael Batnick & Downtown Josh Brown
Animal Spirits
Michael Batnick & Ben Carlson
We Study Markets (by The Investor's Podcast Network)
Shawn O'Malley & Matthew Berkhan
The Complete List
All 18 podcasts, covering every angle of investing.
Macro Voices
Erik Townsend · Weekly
Weekly macro analysis with top-tier institutional guests. Commodities, currencies, interest rates, and geopolitics. Townsend runs a macro hedge fund and brings a practitioner's perspective. The weekly research roundup is a valuable time-saver.
Why Glen listens: If you want to understand the macro backdrop for your investments — interest rates, inflation, dollar dynamics — this is the podcast. Institutional-grade analysis, free.
The Meb Faber Show
Meb Faber · 2x per week
Faber interviews quantitative investors, allocators, and researchers. Covers trend following, global diversification, factor investing, and market history. Data-driven and evidence-based, without the dogma of pure value or pure growth camps.
Why Glen listens: Meb brings a quantitative, evidence-based perspective that balances the narrative-driven nature of most investing media. His contrarian takes on valuations are consistently sharp.
Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
Tracy Alloway & Joe Weisenthal · 2x per week
Bloomberg's best podcast. They cover the weird, overlooked corners of finance: repo markets, shipping rates, semiconductor supply chains, and the plumbing of the financial system. Consistently surprising and educational.
Why Glen listens: You will learn about parts of the financial system you never knew existed — and discover why they matter for your portfolio. Their episodes on Treasury market structure are essential.
Value: After Hours
Tobias Carlisle, Jake Taylor, Bill Brewster · Weekly
Three value investors discuss markets, investing philosophy, and specific stock ideas. Casual, honest, and refreshingly self-aware about mistakes. Carlisle's deep value framework, Taylor's mental models, and Brewster's practical analysis create great chemistry.
Why Glen listens: This is what an investing conversation should sound like — smart people admitting what they do not know while sharing what they have learned. No ego, no hype.
Rational Reminder
Ben Felix & Cameron Passmore · Weekly
Evidence-based investing from two Canadian portfolio managers. They review academic research on factor investing, diversification, retirement planning, and behavioral finance. The most rigorous podcast on this list — every claim is backed by data.
Why Glen listens: If you want to understand what the academic evidence actually says about investing strategies, this is the podcast. They challenge conventional wisdom with data, not opinions.
Chat with Traders
Aaron Fifield · Weekly
Interviews with professional traders across all markets: equities, options, crypto, futures, and forex. Covers trading psychology, risk management, and the daily routines of full-time traders. More trading-focused than investing-focused, but the risk management lessons apply everywhere.
Why Glen listens: The risk management episodes are invaluable. How professional traders think about position sizing, stop losses, and drawdown management translates directly to long-term investing.
Capital Allocators
Ted Seides · Weekly
Seides interviews the people who allocate the world's institutional capital: endowment CIOs, pension fund managers, and family office leaders. You learn how the biggest pools of money are managed and what drives institutional decision-making.
Why Glen listens: Understanding how institutional money moves is critical for any investor. These are the people setting asset allocation policy for billions of dollars — their frameworks are world-class.
My First Million
Sam Parr & Shaan Puri · 3x per week
Not a pure investing podcast — it is about business ideas, entrepreneurship, and making money. But the market analysis segments and business model breakdowns are excellent. High energy, entertaining, and full of actionable ideas for building wealth beyond the stock market.
Why Glen listens: Great reminder that investing is just one way to build wealth. The best investments often come from understanding business models — and these guys analyze business models for a living.
The Compound and Friends
Josh Brown, Michael Batnick & Downtown Josh Brown · Weekly
Josh Brown — CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management and the most-followed financial advisor on social media — hosts a weekly roundtable on markets, economics, and investing culture. Brown's ability to translate Wall Street jargon into plain English is unmatched. The show blends data-driven analysis with humor and cultural commentary.
Why Glen listens: Brown has seen multiple market cycles from both the retail and institutional side. His perspective on market sentiment, positioning, and what narratives are actually driving prices is consistently valuable. If you want to understand what the financial advisor community is thinking, this is the window.
The Real Estate Guys Radio Show
Robert Helms & Russell Gray · Weekly
The longest-running real estate investing podcast. Covers syndication, market analysis, asset classes from multifamily to mobile home parks, and the macro forces driving real estate. They bring in economists, developers, and operators — not just coaches selling courses.
Why Glen listens: Real estate is a critical asset class that most stock-focused investors ignore. This podcast gives you the vocabulary and frameworks to evaluate real estate deals, even if you never buy a property directly. Their macro analysis of how interest rates impact cap rates is particularly sharp.
BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
David Greene & Rob Abasolo · 2x per week
The largest real estate investing community in the world produces a podcast to match. Interviews with investors at every level — from first-time house hackers to operators running thousands of units. Practical, tactical, and grounded in real numbers. The deal analysis segments are especially useful.
Why Glen listens: If you are curious about real estate investing but do not know where to start, BiggerPockets is the on-ramp. The diversity of strategies covered — BRRRR, house hacking, syndication, short-term rentals — gives you a complete picture of how real estate wealth is actually built.
Animal Spirits
Michael Batnick & Ben Carlson · Weekly
Two financial professionals discuss the stories and trends moving markets. Named after Keynes's concept of irrational economic behavior, the show excels at connecting market data to human psychology. Short episodes, sharp analysis, and a focus on what actually matters for individual investors.
Why Glen listens: Batnick and Carlson are prolific writers and thinkers. Their ability to separate signal from noise in a world of constant financial media is what makes this show stand out. Perfect for investors who want a 30-minute weekly briefing without the sensationalism.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Scott Galloway · 2x per week
NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway covers the intersection of business, technology, and culture. His analysis of Big Tech market power, antitrust dynamics, and the economics of higher education is consistently provocative. Not a traditional investing podcast, but his business analysis directly informs investment theses.
Why Glen listens: Galloway thinks in frameworks — T Algorithm, flywheel economics, the algebra of wealth. Whether you agree with his takes or not, his mental models for evaluating businesses are worth adding to your toolkit. His predictions on which sectors will face regulatory pressure have been ahead of the curve.
We Study Markets (by The Investor's Podcast Network)
Shawn O'Malley & Matthew Berkhan · Daily (weekdays)
A daily markets podcast from the same network behind We Study Billionaires. Covers the top stories moving markets each day in 15-20 minutes. Earnings breakdowns, macro data releases, and the investing angles that matter. Think of it as your morning market briefing without the cable news noise.
Why Glen listens: Perfect for staying current without drowning in information. The daily format forces discipline — they cover what matters and skip the filler. Pairs perfectly with a longer weekly show like Invest Like the Best or Acquired.
Best Episodes to Start With
Not sure where to begin? These episodes are perfect entry points — each one captures what makes its show special.
Investors Podcast — We Study Billionaires
“TIP 494: Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2023 Recap”
A masterclass in parsing Buffett and Munger's wisdom from the annual meeting. Perfect introduction to how the hosts break down investing giants.
“TIP 540: Value Investing in a Changing World with Guy Spier”
Guy Spier's journey from Wall Street cynic to Zurich-based value investor is one of the most honest conversations about what it actually takes to invest well.
The All-In Podcast
“E92: Markets in Turmoil, Banking Crisis Deep Dive”
When SVB collapsed, the besties had real-time insight because they had actual deposits at stake. The raw honesty and conflicting viewpoints made this essential listening for understanding systemic risk.
“E150: AI Investment Thesis — Where the Real Value Is”
Chamath and Friedberg lay out competing AI investment frameworks that are more nuanced than anything you'll find on financial TV.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy — Invest Like the Best
“Bill Gurley — All Too Well (Invest Like the Best, EP.337)”
Gurley is one of the greatest venture capitalists in history. This episode covers his entire framework for evaluating marketplaces, competitive moats, and what separates good companies from great ones.
“Howard Marks — The Value of Experiences”
Marks is the best writer in finance. Hearing him discuss cycles, risk, and second-level thinking in conversation is even better than reading his memos.
Acquired
“Berkshire Hathaway (Parts I & II)”
Six hours of the most thorough Berkshire analysis ever produced in audio form. From the textile mill to the insurance empire. If you listen to one Acquired episode, make it this.
“NVIDIA”
They recorded this before the AI explosion made NVIDIA a household name. The foresight in their analysis of Jensen Huang's long-term strategy is remarkable in retrospect.
Macro Voices
“Lyn Alden — Fiscal Dominance and the Dollar Endgame”
Alden is one of the clearest thinkers on fiscal policy and its impact on markets. This episode lays out a framework for understanding why deficits, rates, and the dollar are all connected.
Podcast Listening Strategy
Most people listen to podcasts passively — background noise while commuting. That is a waste. Here is how to actually extract value from every episode.
Take Notes, Even Bad Ones
Keep a running note for each podcast episode. Write down the guest's name, their core thesis, any tickers or assets mentioned, and one idea that surprised you. You do not need perfect notes — the act of writing forces active engagement. A voice memo app works if you are driving.
Follow Up on Ideas
After an episode, spend 5-10 minutes looking up anything unfamiliar. If a guest mentions a company, pull up the 10-K. If they reference a historical event, read the Wikipedia article. The follow-up research is where 80% of the learning happens. The podcast is just the spark.
Cross-Reference Across Shows
When multiple podcasts discuss the same topic — a stock, a macro trend, a policy change — pay close attention. Compare how a value investor on We Study Billionaires frames it versus a macro trader on Macro Voices. The differences in framing teach you more than either perspective alone.
Track Predictions and Outcomes
Write down specific predictions hosts or guests make. Revisit them in 6-12 months. This teaches you who actually has edge versus who just sounds confident. Calibrating your trust in different voices is one of the most valuable skills an investor can develop.
Curate Ruthlessly
Your time is your most valuable asset. If a podcast consistently fails to teach you something new, drop it. If an episode's title does not grab you, skip it. The goal is not to listen to everything — it is to listen to the right things deeply. Three great episodes per week beats ten mediocre ones.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best investing podcast for beginners?
Investors Podcast (We Study Billionaires) is the best starting point. They break down Warren Buffett's philosophy, explain core investing concepts, and interview world-class investors in an accessible format. Start with their Berkshire Hathaway episodes and work through the back catalog. We Study Markets from the same network is also excellent for daily market context.
Are investing podcasts worth listening to?
Yes, if you choose the right ones. The best investing podcasts provide institutional-quality analysis for free. They expose you to diverse perspectives, keep you updated on macro trends, and help you develop your own investing framework. The key is to listen critically — no podcast host has a perfect track record.
How many investing podcasts should I listen to?
Pick 3-5 that match your investing style and stick with them. Listening to too many creates noise, not signal. Better to deeply absorb a few great podcasts than to skim a dozen mediocre ones. Pair podcasts with reading — books provide the depth that podcasts cannot.
What is the best podcast for value investors?
Investors Podcast (We Study Billionaires) and Value: After Hours are the two best podcasts specifically focused on value investing. Invest Like the Best frequently features value investors as guests. For a data-driven approach, Rational Reminder covers the academic evidence behind value investing as a factor.
What is the best podcast for understanding macro economics and interest rates?
Macro Voices with Erik Townsend is the most focused macro podcast, with institutional-grade guests covering rates, currencies, and commodities. Odd Lots from Bloomberg covers the overlooked corners of macro — repo markets, Treasury plumbing, and global trade flows. For a daily macro briefing, We Study Markets keeps you current in 15 minutes.
Which investing podcasts cover venture capital and startups?
The All-In Podcast features four tech investors debating venture, markets, and policy in real time. My First Million focuses on business ideas and entrepreneurial wealth-building. The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway covers Big Tech strategy and the intersection of business and culture. For deep company histories, Acquired covers how today's biggest companies were built.
Are there good real estate investing podcasts?
BiggerPockets is the largest real estate investing community and their podcast covers every strategy from house hacking to large syndications. The Real Estate Guys Radio Show is the longest-running real estate podcast and excels at macro analysis of how interest rates and economic cycles affect real estate returns.
How should I take notes while listening to investing podcasts?
Keep a simple note-taking system — a notebook, a notes app, or a voice memo. Write down the guest's name, the key thesis, any stock or asset mentioned, and one thing that challenged your current thinking. After the episode, spend five minutes looking up anything unfamiliar. The follow-up research is where the real learning happens.
Can podcasts replace reading for investing education?
No. Podcasts are excellent for staying current, discovering new ideas, and hearing expert perspectives in real time. But the depth required for serious investing — understanding financial statements, reading 10-Ks, studying business history — comes from books and primary sources. Use podcasts as a complement to reading, not a substitute.
What is the best daily investing podcast?
We Study Markets delivers a focused 15-20 minute daily briefing on the stories moving markets. Animal Spirits provides a weekly wrap-up that covers the most important data and narratives. The Compound and Friends offers a weekly roundtable that puts daily market moves in broader context.
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