The book gives you the 3,000-year view. These are the shows I trust for the current conversation — the ten podcasts worth your commute, or in my case, the morning miles.
Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson on markets, investor behavior, and whatever the industry is arguing about this week. Smart and genuinely fun.
Listen to Animal Spirits → 2Ted Seides interviews the people who manage the world's institutional capital — CIOs, LPs, and legendary managers.
Listen to Capital Allocators → 3Patrick O'Shaughnessy's long-form conversations with investors and founders. Consistently the deepest interviews in the business.
Listen to Invest Like the Best → 4Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway go deep on the market's most interesting plumbing — from private credit to shipping to Treasury markets.
Listen to Odd Lots → 5Barry Ritholtz's interviews with the biggest names in finance. A masterclass in career arcs and market history.
Listen to Masters in Business → 6Bain & Company's private equity podcast — deal trends, fundraising, and where the industry is headed, straight from the consultants who advise it.
Listen to Dry Powder → 7Howard Marks unpacks his famous Oaktree memos. Decades of credit-cycle wisdom in every episode.
Listen to Behind the Memo → 8Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norway's $1.7T sovereign wealth fund, interviews the CEOs his fund owns. Unmatched access.
Listen to In Good Company → 9One company per episode, taken apart piece by piece — how it makes money, what makes it durable. From the Colossus network.
Listen to Business Breakdowns → 10Josh Brown and a rotating cast of sharp guests on the week in markets. The Friday happy hour of financial podcasts.
Listen to The Compound →One more edge: most of these shows publish full transcripts and show notes. When an episode covers a manager or strategy you work with, the transcript is a fast way to pull talking points for advisor and client conversations.