Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

Kroger. Whole Foods. Wegman's. Publix. Ahold Giant. Lidl. Aldi. Trader Joe's. AMAZON! Old regional monopolies, be damned. The supermarket industry is in an arms race to scratch and claw for single-digit profit margins. Why is this otherwise sedate and mature business suddenly in hyper-expansion mode? Is it a bubble? Consider the case of Richmond, VA -- perhaps the country's most supermarketed city...

Finally: veteran investing columnist Jason Zweig of the WSJ agrees to come on Full Disclosure. He talks about the markets, his career, Wall Street's rampant bullshattery and his handy little book, The Devil's Financial Dictionary. We're @FullDRadio on Twitter and Facebook.com/FullDRadio ...

Tess Vigeland, longtime Marketplace host, left her job, sold her belongings and is now traveling the world to reinvent. She authored the book Leap: Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want. We patched her in from Vietnam.

Hyperinflation. Empty store shelves. A thriving black market for smugglers and dummy businesses. An angry street. Crippling debt. Five-cent gasoline. Welcome to the dystopian economy of Venezuela after Hugo Chavez. Craig Shealy of BlackCreek Group guest hosts.

We're joined by Paul Barrett of BW, author of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun; and investor Craig Shealy, a lifelong hunter who owns several guns but refuses to join the NRA.

Venture capitalist Mamoon Hamid, general partner and co-founder at Social Capital talks about his path to the industry, the path forward for technology, Yahoo, Tesla and the necessary audacity of startups like Uber and Airbnb.

My guests are Tarek Masoud, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and co-author of The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform (2015); and Roberta Oster-Sachs, a former NBC News producer who covered the 9/11 attacks and frequented Paris.

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, co-founders of ad giant (Publicis) Kaplan Thaler, talk about the state of advertising and their national bestseller GRIT to Great. Available on NPR One, iTunes, Stitcher and SoundCloud.

Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street Internet analyst who reinvented as a digital news mogul. On NPR One, WRIR, Stitcher and iTunes. Twitter @FullDRadio Facebook.com/FullDRadio

CBS News foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan assesses how the U.S. and the world are trying to deal with a convulsing Middle East.

Eurasia Group president and Time foreign affairs columnist Ian Bremmer joins us to talk the Middle East, Vlad Putin, oil and the 2016 election.

Iranian-American funnyman Maz Jobrani talks about coming to America, making it in Hollywood, making it in spite of Hollywood -- and investing in himself.

Hedge fund manager James Chanos, Wall Street's most outspoken skeptic on the Chinese economy. We talk commodities, central planning, comparisons to Japan, Joe Biden, solar financing and clambakes.

A frank conversation with James Harmon and Katy Chih of the Caravel Fund, a top performer in emerging and frontier markets -- having grown from $1 million to over $800 million in assets since its 2004 launch. How does this compare to 1997? Or Japan's 1989? Is the emerging market dream over? Interrupted? Only as good as China? Don't miss this episode.

Lauren Young, Money editor of Reuters, joins portfolio manager Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington. They are like big sisters to me.

Media critic Michael Wolff, author of the new book Television is the New Television. He explains, admits, dishes, disses...

A rare, in-depth conversation with Marty Schenker, senior executive editor at Bloomberg News. The veteran is like the news giant's curator-in-chief, overseeing the most important headlines that go out to Bloomberg's battalions of terminal-addicted customers across the planet. We talk China, the Fed, Kanye, emerging markets, Iran, Trump...and the meaning of life.

What can we learn from an Iranian businessman who just moved his family to America?

Trevor Rabin, longtime guitarist for the band Yes, recalls the life of his pal Chris Squire, the band's bassist and co-founder.

Felix Salmon on journalism, finance, tea and reinvention -- and the broader meaning of chicken tikka masala. (@FullDRadio)

Behind the great American micro brewing craze...

We talk about the bond market, seven years of zero interest rate policy and investor memory with Brian Broadway of Aspen Partners -- on his 20th year in the business.

Kendra Feather, veteran restaurateur -- Garnett's, The Roosevelt and Ipanema -- advises fledgling Liz Fishman and her Daily Jars

A mildly NSFW vent session with Sarah Lacy, editor and founder of PandoDaily. We talk AOL's (latest) demise, Facebook, Google, BuzzFeed, Vice News, Yahoo, legacy news outlets and the Don Draper of Silicon Valley.

Tesla's Powerwall wants to change the world. Guests: author Steve LeVine of Quartz; energy banker Craig Shealy; solar salesman Henry Clifford. On NPROne, Stitcher, iTunes and Twitter and Facebook @FullDRadio