Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

How 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.

Veteran 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.

Richard 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.

Tom 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.

Economics 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.

Help 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?

Veteran 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.

Wall Street polymath Barry Ritholtz on markets, investor psychology and New York 20 years after September 11.

Our first-ever highlights episode. Featured conversations: reformed whiz kids; a citizen sleuth; comedians; the son of an infamous Miami gangster; a photojournalist who explores abandoned malls; an author trying to make peace with the ghost of a volatile parent; and the battle to diversify public media.

Two decades and more than two trillion U.S. dollars later, was this latest fall of Afghanistan inevitable? The nation of 40 million is once again in the hands of the Taliban, which is trying to rebrand. Can it be trusted? The Economist's James Astill and international security consultant Michael Arrighi weigh in.