Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
Roben Farzad
The business of culture. The culture of business. Policy; media & tech; entrepreneurs and more.
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Oct 27, 2017 • 44min
Will Video Save the Telecom Star?
Former AT&T Broadband CEO Leo Hindery on the dizzying ways content and distribution are (once again) tag-teaming, from AT&T-Time Warner to Verizon-AOL-YaHooffPo and free Netflix on T-Mobile. Fat pipes. Dumb pipes. Skinny bundles. Cord-shaving. Fed-up subscribers. Elusive margins. We've got it all on this week's show.

Oct 16, 2017 • 39min
The Bull Market in Everything?
The Economist's Simon Cox on the implications of lofty asset prices across the planet -- the magazine's recent cover topic. Stocks, real estate, farmland....seemingly nothing is cheap in 2017. Does it all have to end in heartbreak? We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Oct 4, 2017 • 41min
Free Willie?
Willie Falcon started dealing cocaine in 1970s Miami. He was on the run from the law in the '80s; captured and prosecuted in the '90s; sentenced in the '00s. Now, the Feds want to deport him to his native Cuba. Smuggling pal Carlos Ruiz and "Cocaine Cowboys" producer Alfred Spellman on the five-decade pursuit of Miami's most famous kingpin.

Sep 25, 2017 • 31min
Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre
Reeling from a $70-billion financial crisis, the very last thing Puerto Rico needed was wholesale destruction by massive hurricanes. The territory is losing population to the mainland U.S.; the power is out everywhere; everything is rusted or damaged and San Juan is broke. Puerto Rico Clearinghouse's Cate Long on the stark choices facing the island. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Sep 14, 2017 • 36min
Miami Water Torture
Miami dodged catastrophe when Hurricane Irma swerved. Even so, much of its downtown ended up submerged. Keeping the sea at bay has rapidly become costlier and more complicated for this Pan-American boomtown, whose skyline holds record foreign wealth. What if...? I talked to condo power broker Alicia Cervera Lamadrid and the Miami Herald's Nick Nehamas. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Sep 4, 2017 • 47min
The Fed's Looooooong Unwind
Unemployment's low. Stocks are at highs. The financial crisis is a distant memory. So why are interest rates still so stubbornly low? And how will they get back up to some level of "normalcy"? We ask Al Broaddus, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He joined the Fed back in 1970.

Aug 27, 2017 • 40min
The Rogue Mouseketeer
Wall Street analyst Rich Greenfield is outspoken in his belief that Walt Disney Co., parent of struggling ESPN, is in trouble. The CEO blocked him on Twitter. He's ignored on Disney's analyst calls. You know the House-of-Mouse of Pain is in effect, y'all.

Aug 13, 2017 • 41min
HBR's Appetite for Disruption
Harvard Business Review editor in chief Adi Ignatius on the 95-year old publication's reinvention for the smartphone age. After cutting its print frequency and doubling down on digital and subscriber-only content, HBR just posted record circulation growth.
We're on Twitter @FullDRadio.

Aug 6, 2017 • 47min
The Cigarette's Last Stand?
Dr. Stanton Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, on the FDA's surprise decision to target nicotine levels in cigarettes. Though U.S. smoking rates have been falling, cigarettes remain a cash-cow. Is this Big Tobacco's big reckoning?
We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Jul 29, 2017 • 42min
(He Moved Your Cheese)
Jon Steinberg is CEO and founder of Cheddar, the "post-cable" news network that's drawing in investors, viewers and marketing partners. Big Media is rapidly getting disrupted. Netflix. Amazon. Apple. Facebook. AT&T-TimeWarner. Apps and digital startups. Everyone wants a wedge of the action.
We're on Twitter @FullDRadio | Facebook.com/FullDRadio


