

Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
Roben Farzad
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Apr 25, 2025 • 53min
Jeffrey Lacker
Former Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker, a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee, on tariffs and the inflationary hangover; Pres. Trump vs. Fed Chair Powell; and the peculiarities of post-Covid economic life.

Apr 23, 2025 • 53min
ICYMI
In case you missed it: highlights from recent shows. Mudlarking on the River Thames; raising chickens in a Virginia backyard; and a Full Disclosure first -- a journo who I admire, Mo News's Mosheh Oinounou, interviews me about nervous markets and the economy.

Apr 11, 2025 • 54min
Mudlarking the River Thames
Gradually...bit by bit...shard by shred...coin by button....a storied river gives up thousands of years of history. London Mudlark and micro-paleontologist Alessio Checconi on his finger-wrinkling love-affair with the River Thames.

Apr 3, 2025 • 60min
Thomas Dolby
The professional journey of musician Thomas Dolby, the synth and MTV pioneer who hit it big with “She Blinded me with Science.” The British polymath has been a tech innovator, producer, author and professor at Johns Hopkins, among a thousand other things. Ian Stewart guest hosts ... with a fanboy chime-in by Roben Farzad.

Mar 26, 2025 • 52min
ICYMI
🎙️ Rick Stengel on TIME and the State Department
🎙️ Ray Suarez on the American immigrant experience
🎙️ Zoe Schiffer on Elon Musk

Mar 22, 2025 • 1h 4min
Mo ... Roben?
The tables have turned! For the first time in Full Disclosure's storied history, I, Roben Farzad, am interviewed -- and by a favorite journalist: Mosheh Oinounou, the exec. behind digital media empire Mo News. We discuss anxious markets, the economy, avocados, grievance, headline volatility, factory towns...the works.

Mar 12, 2025 • 55min
Jonathan Wald
Veteran TV news executive Jonathan Wald -- NBC; CNN; CNBC; MSNBC; Amazon's Election Night Live -- on the season of cable spinoffs and streaming consolidation and consternation.

Mar 8, 2025 • 50min
Greens, Eggs and ...
A backyard-chicken enthusiast on churning out eggs -- suddenly the most valuable food in the world. And the brave new world of raising fresh produce through micro-farming. Ian Stewart guest hosts.

Feb 28, 2025 • 52min
Ken Adelman
Ken Adelman, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Arms Control Director for Pres. Ronald Reagan, on the Trump administration's post-post-Cold War view on Russia -- and where that leaves Europe, NATO and the transatlantic order.

Feb 21, 2025 • 58min
DJ Hesta Prynn
Licensed therapist Julie Potash Slavin -- who circles the planet as DJ Hesta Prynn -- on where the dance floor meets the couch. CNN called her "the leading voice in music and mental health."