Business/Disrupted

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Business/Disrupted episodes

October 18, 2021 Encore The State of State Politics
In our continuing series on the business of politics, we look to state political parties - where the real action happens.
1 hr
October 11, 2021 Encore The Messy Business of Mass Torts
Purdue Pharma. Asbestos. Boy Scouts. Tobacco. Birth Defects. Medical Devices. The Opioid Crisis. Airline accidents. The common threat tying all of these things together is that they generate litigation - a lot of it.
1 hr
October 04, 2021 Encore Politics - the political operatives
Politics happens because of people - very skilled, dedicated people. So do political operations in labor unions, in elected officials’ offices, in national political parties. We discuss the ins and outs of a career in politics with Amy K.
1 hr
September 27, 2021 Encore The Music Industry, Unplugged (Part 2)
Musicians invested the gig economy. Living one job to another, having to be performer, CEO, marketing, advertising, and HR, and still find time to keep their skills honed and practice.
1 hr
September 20, 2021 Encore When Commercial Office Space Hits the Wall
More than a year into working from home, what's the outlook for commercial office space owners and tenants? Some employees want a return to the office, some loathe being around people again.
1 hr
September 13, 2021 The Complex Economic Maze of Adoption
Adoption is a process that brings adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoptees into a common set of events, but in wildly differing and often unpredictable ways. Things that those outside the adoption experience rarely need to consider - tax structure, legislation, and the always-evolving efforts restrict and protect women's bodily autonomy - all influence and impact the adoption process, impact options available to adoptive parents and those available to birth parents. How does a business designed to be a resource for both adoptive parents and birth parents in the most important decisions of their lives work? Our guest, Molly Rampe Thomas of Choice Network Adoptions, is a leader in the field and she joins us to explain some of these mysteries and shed light on existential threats to the adoption process and to those who most need the process to run smoothly.
56 min
September 06, 2021 Encore Politics - It's not all about kissing babies
The path to elected office starts years before a candidate declares and starts raising money, knocking on doors, giving speeches and, yes, kissing some babies.
1 hr
August 30, 2021 Encore Business Disrupted 02/08/21
We examine the folly that was the surge in the price of GameStop stock and how it impacted buyers, sellers and market-makers. Who won, who lost, and who was fodder for the cannon?
1 hr
August 23, 2021 Encore Did We Break the Law When We Weren't Breaking the Law?
From world-class skier to waitress, to administrative help to a real estate developer to the creator of a $4 million business - a poker game for the rich and powerful; only to pick up, change coasts and start it over again, only bigger.
1 hr
August 16, 2021 Encore NRA - WTF?
In early 2021, lobbying behemoth the National Rifle Association filed a chapter 11 case in Texas, intending to use the bankruptcy process not for financial or operational reorganization, but to escape the reach of the New York Attorney General.
1 hr

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Business is an everyday thing, but everyday things can have untold stories - the stories about the things we never stopped to think about. Anyone can pay attention to financial ratios and textbook…