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Jan 6, 2022 • 52min

Rewind: 2019's Concert Series

Flashback to 2019: Nada Surf, Silversun Pickups and (Professor!) David Lowery (Cracker; Camper Van Beethoven) on the highs, lows and hustle it took to make it in the music industry. We'll return to live music when Covid finally exits stage left.
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Dec 20, 2021 • 50min

Full Disclosure Rewind II

Travel with another greatest-hits episode, featuring The Economist, CNBC, Top Chef, Wall Street Confessions, an accomplished investor in Africa -- and more. Full Disclosure podcasts to NPR One, Spotify and Apple at FullDRadio.com. Coming in 2022 to NPR member-station WVTF Virginia Public Radio.
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Dec 12, 2021 • 53min

Parental Guidance Demanded

50+ million Americans provide unpaid care for someone over 50. Children of parents needing elder-care -- a surging share of the aging population -- are learning how little they can depend on the social-safety net. Julia Pekarsky Schneider and Kitty Eisele share their experiences as daughters who had to parent a parent.
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Dec 4, 2021 • 51min

Remote Control

So much for the great return to offices. Many of us are still working remotely, often with little desire to go back to the five-day-a-week desk-grind. Who gets hit hardest in this new order? Can you negotiate dividends from this shift? Guests: Bloomberg's Matthew Boyle and Prof. Andra Ghent, chair in real estate at the University of Utah's School of Business.
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Nov 12, 2021 • 51min

Live Show: "What Did VA Just Tell US?"

From the University of Richmond's Robins School: Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope, the politics duo from the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Virginia Public Radio, on the national implications of the GOP's big 2021 wins in Virginia.
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Nov 10, 2021 • 51min

The Economist’s World Ahead: 2022

Editor Tom Standage discusses The Economist's special 2022 outlook issue. We covered everything from climate to China to the new space race, inflation and the intensifying tug-of-war over remote work.
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Nov 7, 2021 • 51min

Life's Many Stitches

How Jenny Doan, a grandmother of 25, came back from poverty and domestic violence -- and rode the YouTube boom to launch the Missouri Star Quilt Company. Her memoir is How to Stitch an American Dream: A Story of Family, Faith and the Power of Giving.
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Nov 2, 2021 • 60min

From Wall Street to Washington to Wazirabad

Veteran banker James Harmon on his 60-year journey from Wall Street to the Clinton administration to investing in bleeding-edge markets like Pakistan and Ghana. Along the way, he helped IPO Starbucks and dabbled in film and music moguldom. His book is Up and Doing: Two Presidents, Three Mistakes, and One Great Weekend―Touchpoints to a Better World.
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Oct 21, 2021 • 55min

The Contented Life

Richard Siklos, until recently VP of corporate communications at Netflix, used to cover the media business for the New York Times and Fortune. We discussed the streaming arms race and ongoing disruption of old media, consolidation musical chairs and the elusive dream of marrying distribution with content.
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Oct 15, 2021 • 53min

Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin

Tom Barkin, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, on the unprecedented shocks and monetary interventions of the pandemic. We discussed the "Great Quit," inflation, rusty supply chains and much more before an audience at the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business.

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