
Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
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Latest episodes

Nov 7, 2022 • 50min
The New Bean-Counting
How one coffee-shop owner is taking on inflation and the Great Quit by *ditching* tips and propelling baristas onto the partnership track.

Oct 30, 2022 • 51min
The Local Motion
Karri Peifer, formerly of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, on becoming the first editor of Axios Richmond -- one of well-funded Axios's more than 24 local news efforts across the country ... at a time of spreading news deserts. The quest for a fresh, sustainable business model for local news.

Oct 24, 2022 • 54min
Goldman Handcuffs
Veteran Wall Street exec Jamie Fiore Higgins on her book, Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs.

Oct 16, 2022 • 51min
Islamic Devolution?
Iran's street is convulsing yet again. The protests and crackdowns -- fueled initially by the death in custody of a young woman -- have since exposed new fault lines both across and within class, commerce...even religious observance. Negar Mortazavi, host of the Iran Podcast, on where this takes the restive nation of 88 million.

Oct 1, 2022 • 54min
Bondsternation
Bloomberg Surveillance's Lisa Abramowicz and Truist Wealth's Chip Hughey discuss the inflation-stoked bear market that has rattled global bonds and stocks. Can the Fed subdue price pressures without pushing the economy into a steep decline?

Sep 27, 2022 • 51min
Pope and Schapiro on Virginia
The Virginia Public Radio - Richmond Times-Dispatch reporting duo of Michael Pope and Jeff Schapiro on Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's national ambitions; the prominent swing-district Democratic Congresswomen being targeted in Election 2022; and how the reversal of Roe v. Wade will play out in purpling Old Dominion.

Sep 19, 2022 • 52min
If You Can't Beat It ...
"Be the market. Don't try to beat the market." This mantra has dominated Wall Street for two decades, with investors sending trillions upon trillions of dollars into cut-rate, passive funds that track the broader market. The stock commission is dead. Equity investing has never been so accessible. What does this mean for you? Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg Intelligence ETF guru, weighs in.

Sep 12, 2022 • 1h
The Great Dispersion
Hybrid work. Quiet quitting. The eternally delayed return to the office. It's increasingly apparent that work is not going to revert to some imagined pre-Covid normal. The frictions are often inter-generational. Guests: Ed Zitron, CEO of EZPR, Substack's "Where's Your Ed At?" ; and Kian Gohar, co-author of Competing in the New World of Work.

Sep 6, 2022 • 51min
Full Disclosure Rewind II
• Eron Otcasek
• Bestseller William Cohan
• Axlesdotter Bakery
• Breanne Armbrust

Sep 6, 2022 • 51min
Full Disclosure Rewind I
• Planet Money's Mary Childs
• Restaurant mogul Chris Tsui
• NewsHour's Geoffrey Bennett