Jenn’s Reading Room · A Public Index
The Economist
Podcasts
A reader’s index of The Economist’s flagship audio: one page per show, plus a live tracker for the closing quiz on Checks and Balance.
The Economist publishes five regular podcasts. This is my index of them: a tidy public catalogue, with one page for each show.
Two shows get more than a listing. Checks and Balance, on American politics, closes each episode with a quiz between its hosts, and I track every round on its own page. Money Talks, on markets, gets a data feature built on its latest episode: the US Treasury market, in real numbers.
The catalogue
The shows.
Each show links to its own page. Checks and Balance carries the live quiz tracker and Money Talks carries the Treasury data feature; the rest are catalogued with what they are, who hosts them, and what I’d track next.
Checks and Balance
American politics, unpacked weekly. Charlotte Howard, Idrees Kahloon, and John Prideaux examine the forces reshaping the republic, with a quiz at the end of every episode.
294 rounds tracked · Jan 2020–Feb 2026 · hosts Charlotte Howard, Idrees Kahloon, John Prideaux
Open the tracker→The Intelligence
DailyThe Economist's daily briefing. Three stories shaping the world: the big shifts in politics, business, and culture, in under 25 minutes.
Hosts: Jason Palmer, Rosie Blau
Boss Class
SeasonalAndrew Palmer (The Economist's Bartleby columnist) on how to be a better boss. Season 3 dives into AI at work: can it do your job, what happens when everyone can code, and what's your unfair advantage over a machine.
Hosts: Andrew Palmer
Drum Tower
WeeklyChina, from the inside. Jeremy Page and Sarah Wu (The Economist's China correspondents) cover politics, economics, tech, culture, and China's reach beyond its borders. Award-winning.
Hosts: Jeremy Page, Sarah Wu
Method
The sources.
Episode metadata is pulled from each show’s public RSS feed. Closing-quiz outcomes are coded from the audio, then cross-checked against the published episode page before they reach the leaderboard.
This page is research, not affiliation. The Economist, Checks and Balance, and the host names are references to the public programme.