Best finance podcasts in 2026
The best finance podcasts teach you how markets work and how great investors think. What none of them can do is tell you how your portfolio did today.
Here are the finance podcasts worth subscribing to in 2026 - plus StockCar, which generates a fresh podcast about your own holdings on demand.
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StockCar is not a weekly show - it is a podcast generator for your portfolio. Enter your tickers and it produces a fresh AI episode about your holdings on demand, covering stocks, crypto, ETFs, indices, and forex.
Verdict: The only one here that is about you. Everyone else is a great general show; StockCar is your portfolio, narrated.
Try Free →The Motley Fool's analysts get together to discuss the week's most important business and stock-investing news, with approachable takes for long-term investors.
Verdict: A great weekly habit for general market news. It will never mention your specific positions.
The flagship show of The Investor's Podcast Network and one of the largest investing podcasts in the world, with 180M+ downloads. Each week it interviews finance titans or deconstructs investors like Buffett, Munger, and Marks.
Verdict: The best classroom on this list. Pair it with StockCar for the part it can't cover: your own holdings.
Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson talk markets, life, and investing - what they are reading, writing, and watching - in a casual twice-weekly format.
Verdict: Fun, smart market company for the week. Not a substitute for knowing how your positions did.
NPR's Peabody-winning show that turns global-economy stories into short, accessible episodes that finance and non-finance listeners both enjoy.
Verdict: The best on-ramp to economic thinking. A different job from a portfolio briefing.
Subscribe to one or two of these for market education and a sense of how great investors think - We Study Billionaires and Motley Fool Money are a strong starting pair.
Then use StockCar for the part no general podcast can do: a fresh, on-demand episode about your actual holdings, ready whenever you want to listen.
Frequently asked questions
For weekly market news, Motley Fool Money; for learning from great investors, We Study Billionaires. For a podcast about your own portfolio specifically, StockCar generates one on demand from the tickers you hold.
Yes - StockCar. Rather than a fixed weekly show, it produces a personalized AI podcast episode about your specific holdings on demand, in under 10 seconds, with no account required.
Planet Money is the most beginner-friendly for understanding the economy, and Motley Fool Money is approachable for stock-market news. Pair either with StockCar to also hear about the stocks you actually own.
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