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Business Insurance After Covid Jan 25, 2022

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Covid 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.

Revenge of the Small Investor? Jan 17, 2022

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Wall 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.

All the News That's Fit to Slash Jan 10, 2022

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Hedge 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.

Rewind: 2019's Concert Series Jan 06, 2022

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Flashback 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.

Full Disclosure Rewind II Dec 20, 2021

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Travel 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.

Parental Guidance Demanded Dec 12, 2021

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50+ 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.

Remote Control Dec 04, 2021

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So 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.

Live Show: "What Did VA Just Tell US?" Nov 12, 2021

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From 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.

The Economist’s World Ahead: 2022 Nov 10, 2021

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Editor 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.

Life's Many Stitches Nov 07, 2021

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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.