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Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

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Episodes

Michael Gayed on the Safety Bubble

Michael Gayed of Pension Partners, for the hour. Follow on Twitter @FullDRadio Facebook at Facebook.com/FullDRadio. We're on iTunes at FullDRadio.com

Jul 14, 201655 min

£ucy Marcus on Br€xit

Joining us from London on the morning after: Lucy Marcus, professor, writer, thinker and head of Marcus Venture Consulting. She talks about the many implications of Britain's vote to leave the EU. Follow on Twitter @FullDRadio

Jun 25, 201658 min

Hear this Guy Out

Guy Spier, head of $175 million shop Aquamarine Capital and author of The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment. Twitter @FullDRadio

Jun 15, 201655 min

An Evening with Chef Peter Chang

The James Beard Award finalist tells us about his unlikely journey from poverty in Hubei, China to his U.S. restaurant empire. Taped at Richmond's historic Hippodrome Theater, where a sellout crowd enjoyed a four-course dinner prepared by Chang. Twitter @FullDRadio

May 18, 20161 hr 6 min

The App That Changed the World

Uber driver and entrepreneur Matt Donlon in studio with Uber addict Helayne Spivak, director of VCU's Brandcenter. We're @FullDRadio

May 11, 201656 min

What Are Words For?

Joshua Topolsky (stealth mode digital exec) and NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik on print journalism's ancient struggle to make a digital living. We also talk the New York Times, Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, NPR and beards in Brooklyn. Twitter: @FullDRadio

Apr 29, 201657 min

Yahoothanasia

Internet pioneer Yahoo! -- once worth $140 billion; its core business is now worth under $3 billion -- has reluctantly put itself up for sale. Activist investor Eric Jackson tells us where the company's board and management went wrong and what this says about the broader state of corporate governance. Twitter @FullDRadio

Apr 19, 201650 min

Young House LIVE

Sherry and John Petersik -- "Young House Love" -- are bestselling DIY authors, accidental Internet business moguls and overall millennial badasses. Hear their story of reinvention ... at our first show from Richmond's historic Hippodrome Theater. Follow us @FullDRadio and on Facebook.com/FullDRadio

Apr 13, 20161 hr 3 min

Reinventing Phil

After 37 years as a prolific writer, editor and blogger at TIME and Fortune, Philip Elmer-DeWitt is going solo as Apple 3.0. We talk about the heyday of expense-account journalism, magazines' prolonged decline and the challenges of getting readers to shell out for your content. Also: bathrobes.

Mar 23, 201656 min

Tuesdays With Marty: Episode 2

An hour around the world and across the headlines with one of my favorite journos: Marty Schenker, senior executive editor at Bloomberg News. We talk Election 2016, oil, China, markets, hedge funds, activism, real estate and the meaning of life.

Mar 16, 201656 min

Dr. Arnold Kim, Mac Daddy

Paging the nephrologist turned MacRumors guru. We talk about his unlikely career pivot, all things Apple, blogging, bathrobes, Tesla, kidney stones and making money on content in 2000 vs 2016.

Mar 09, 201656 min

On "Hate-Selling"

Frequent travelers Rafat Ali of Skift and Meg Riley of the Martin Agency lament the industry's record levels of passive-aggression -- and how technology and innovation are giving customers more leverage and new choices. Twitter.com/FullDRadio Facebook.com/FullDRadio

Feb 25, 201656 min

The Great 2016 Supermarket War

Kroger. Whole Foods. Wegman's. Publix. Ahold Giant. Lidl. Aldi. Trader Joe's. AMAZON! Old regional monopolies, be damned. The supermarket industry is in an arms race to scratch and claw for single-digit profit margins. Why is this otherwise sedate and mature business suddenly in hyper-expansion mode? Is it a bubble? Consider the case of Richmond, VA -- perhaps the country's most supermarketed city. Twitter @FullDRadio

Feb 17, 201657 min

Shooting the Bull$h*t with Jason Zweig

Finally: veteran investing columnist Jason Zweig of the WSJ agrees to come on Full Disclosure. He talks about the markets, his career, Wall Street's rampant bullshattery and his handy little book, The Devil's Financial Dictionary. We're @FullDRadio on Twitter and Facebook.com/FullDRadio ...

Feb 04, 201657 min

Quit Your Job Without a Backup Plan

Tess Vigeland, longtime Marketplace host, left her job, sold her belongings and is now traveling the world to reinvent. She authored the book Leap: Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want. We patched her in from Vietnam.

Jan 13, 201658 min

The No-Ply Economy

Hyperinflation. Empty store shelves. A thriving black market for smugglers and dummy businesses. An angry street. Crippling debt. Five-cent gasoline. Welcome to the dystopian economy of Venezuela after Hugo Chavez. Craig Shealy of BlackCreek Group guest hosts.

Dec 18, 201557 min

One Nation, Under the Gun

We're joined by Paul Barrett of BW, author of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun; and investor Craig Shealy, a lifelong hunter who owns several guns but refuses to join the NRA.

Dec 06, 201554 min

Venture Capital v 20.15

Venture capitalist Mamoon Hamid, general partner and co-founder at Social Capital talks about his path to the industry, the path forward for technology, Yahoo, Tesla and the necessary audacity of startups like Uber and Airbnb.

Nov 25, 201558 min

What is Paris Telling Us?

My guests are Tarek Masoud, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and co-author of The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform (2015); and Roberta Oster-Sachs, a former NBC News producer who covered the 9/11 attacks and frequented Paris.

Nov 17, 201556 min

Mad Women

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, co-founders of ad giant (Publicis) Kaplan Thaler, talk about the state of advertising and their national bestseller GRIT to Great. Available on NPR One, iTunes, Stitcher and SoundCloud.

Nov 07, 201557 min

The Six Lives of Henry Blodget

Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street Internet analyst who reinvented as a digital news mogul. On NPR One, WRIR, Stitcher and iTunes. Twitter @FullDRadio Facebook.com/FullDRadio

Oct 21, 201559 min

A Layover with Margaret Brennan

CBS News foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan assesses how the U.S. and the world are trying to deal with a convulsing Middle East.

Oct 14, 201557 min

The World According to Ian Bremmer

Eurasia Group president and Time foreign affairs columnist Ian Bremmer joins us to talk the Middle East, Vlad Putin, oil and the 2016 election.

Sep 29, 201555 min

This Iranian Life: Maz Jobrani

Iranian-American funnyman Maz Jobrani talks about coming to America, making it in Hollywood, making it in spite of Hollywood -- and investing in himself.

Sep 19, 201556 min

Chanos on China

Hedge fund manager James Chanos, Wall Street's most outspoken skeptic on the Chinese economy. We talk commodities, central planning, comparisons to Japan, Joe Biden, solar financing and clambakes.

Aug 28, 201558 min

An Emerging Emergency?

A frank conversation with James Harmon and Katy Chih of the Caravel Fund, a top performer in emerging and frontier markets -- having grown from $1 million to over $800 million in assets since its 2004 launch. How does this compare to 1997? Or Japan's 1989? Is the emerging market dream over? Interrupted? Only as good as China? Don't miss this episode.

Aug 26, 201556 min

My Sisters from Other Misters

Lauren Young, Money editor of Reuters, joins portfolio manager Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington. They are like big sisters to me.

Aug 11, 201557 min

The Wolff of Madison Ave

Media critic Michael Wolff, author of the new book Television is the New Television. He explains, admits, dishes, disses...

Aug 05, 201555 min

Terminal Velocity: An Hour with Marty Schenker

A rare, in-depth conversation with Marty Schenker, senior executive editor at Bloomberg News. The veteran is like the news giant's curator-in-chief, overseeing the most important headlines that go out to Bloomberg's battalions of terminal-addicted customers across the planet. We talk China, the Fed, Kanye, emerging markets, Iran, Trump...and the meaning of life.

Jul 29, 201556 min
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