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Episódios
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Thriving and Hurting: Brand NFL at 100
18/02/2022 Duração: 51minFounded a century ago, the National Football League brand is thriving: high TV ratings, sold-out Super Bowl ads and popularity among nearly all demographics. Yet, the NFL is reeling from allegations of institutional racism and sexual abuse, and not enough being done to protect players from traumatic injury. Brandcenter director Vann Graves and Sportico's Scott Soshnick on the dichotomy.
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Underrated?
11/02/2022 Duração: 51minThe Economist's Ryan Avent on the magazine's cover feature, "How High Will Interest Rates Go?" With inflation at a 40-year high, the Fed faces the tricky task of normalizing borrowing costs without killing the broader economy. Chip Hughey, managing director for fixed income at Truist, discusses the market implications.
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Doomed to Retweet It?
07/02/2022 Duração: 52minHow social media and the pull of clicks-at-any-cost are chipping away at real, facts-based history. Our guest is historian and author Jason Steinhauer, global fellow in history and public policy at The Wilson Center. Plus, a flashback to our chat with Michael Sayman, who joined Facebook at the age of 18.
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Business Insurance After Covid
25/01/2022 Duração: 52minCovid was a mass-extinction event for businesses, from restaurants and bars to concert venues and landlords. Many were blindsided to learn that their business-interruption insurance did not cover a pandemic. Risk advisor John Pendleton of Scott Insurance (est. 1864) and Penn Law Prof. Tom Baker discuss the tricky subject of what coverage will look like after this global shock.
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Revenge of the Small Investor?
17/01/2022 Duração: 52minWall Street Journal editor Spencer Jakab on his book, The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors. The Mulligan brothers, new investors from Oregon, share what they learned riding GameStop stock against the Hedge Fund-Industrial Complex.
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All the News That's Fit to Slash
10/01/2022 Duração: 51minHedge fund Alden Global has devoured and squeezed newspapers, most recently Tribune Publishing. It now wants Lee Enterprises, parent of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Charlottesville's Daily Progress and 75 other dailies. Can Lee stop Alden? Robert Zullo of the Virginia Mercury and NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik on this last stand for the industry.
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Rewind: 2019's Concert Series
06/01/2022 Duração: 52minFlashback 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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Full Disclosure Rewind II
20/12/2021 Duração: 49minTravel 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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Parental Guidance Demanded
12/12/2021 Duração: 52min50+ 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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Remote Control
04/12/2021 Duração: 50minSo 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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Live Show: "What Did VA Just Tell US?"
12/11/2021 Duração: 51minFrom 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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The Economist’s World Ahead: 2022
10/11/2021 Duração: 51minEditor 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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Life's Many Stitches
07/11/2021 Duração: 51minHow 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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From Wall Street to Washington to Wazirabad
02/11/2021 Duração: 59minVeteran 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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The Contented Life
21/10/2021 Duração: 54minRichard 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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Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin
15/10/2021 Duração: 52minTom 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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Independent Variables
04/10/2021 Duração: 50minEconomics writer Matthew Klein (Barron's, Bloomberg, The FT) on new schools of thinking on inflation and full employment; the rust on the post-Covid labor force and supply chains; China; the beleaguered class of savers; and striking out on his own with a subscription-supported newsletter.
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Restaurants: Impossible?
28/09/2021 Duração: 52minHelp wanted...desperately. Everywhere. Wages are up, but so are no-shows. Meanwhile, food costs are spiking and supply chains are rusty. The crisis has more and more restaurants curtailing hours and even shutting down outright. What gives?
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Finance: She Takes It Personally
20/09/2021 Duração: 53minVeteran personal finance writer Lauren Young (Reuters, BusinessWeek, SmartMoney) on the pandeconomy vs markets; shipping her kid off to college; yet more of the work-from-home Normal ... and shedding a tear for the departed investing magazines of yesteryear.
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The Barry Trade
12/09/2021 Duração: 52minWall Street polymath Barry Ritholtz on markets, investor psychology and New York 20 years after September 11.