Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

The story of Ironclad Coffee Roasters, a Virginia upstart that is taking the plunge into the cafe business -- with the help of family & friends and even crowdfunding. How do you win business vs corporate giants? How to clear a profit on a cup of coffee? How do you decide what to pay yourself? We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Ed Zitron, PR executive and author of the book Fire Your Publicist, dishes on the rampant bullshattery and worst practices of the public relations industry. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio, iTunes: FullDRadio.com

Bear Stearns and AIG veteran Ardavan Mobasheri on the decade since the economy and Wall Street's historic meltdown -- and what the market's recent surge in volatility is telling us. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio | Facebook.com/FullDRadio | iTunes at FullDRadio.com

Barry Ritholtz, founder and CIO at Ritholtz Wealth Management, on markets, risk aversion, AmazonBerkshire Health .... and maybe even a little bit of the Bitcoin. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Warren Buffett disciple Tom Gayner started at Markel Corp in 1990 and reinvented the insurer into an investing powerhouse with diverse holdings. Gayner's eye for good values (financial and cultural)helped propel Markel's stock to 93 times where it traded upon his arrival. We talk about his career, markets and the lost art of "value investing" in go-go-growth 2018.

Investor and b-school case-study darlings Facebook, Google and Amazon now sport a combined $2 trillion in value and enviable swathes of market share. The Economist's U.S. tech editor Alexandra Suich Bass on how the triumvirate's dominance is bad for consumers and competition.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer, is trying to ride this year's growing blue wave to win Virginia's 7th U.S. Congressional district. President Trump is unpopular, grassroots activists are buzzed and Democrats think the incumbent is vulnerable. The seat has been held by Republicans since 1971; the Tea Party snatched it in 2014 and Trump won the district by six points.

The Council on Foreign Relations president and veteran diplomat on the volatility of international affairs in the era of Trump. We discuss Haass's latest book, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order. [Twitter @FullDRadio | Facebook.com/FullDRadio]

Bloomberg Gadfly's Shira Ovide on tech's heady year...and the tensions and risks going into 2018. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Snapchat. Uber. Twitter. WholeFoodsPrime. It's all here.

Top-ranked financial advisors Dalal Salomon and Daniel Ludwin (Salomon & Ludwin: $1 billion in assets) on the increasingly tricky questions facing investors after yet another huge year for markets. Complacency is rampant. Nothing is really cheap. Who even remembers volatility? What's a correction? Is cash necessarily trash?