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Donna Shalala, former Secretary of Health & Human Services and president of the University of Miami, is running for U.S. Congress. Up for grabs: an open seat in Miami long held by the GOP. We talked about Democrats' leadership vacuum, Trump's peculiar appeal to blue-collar voters -- and South Florida vs the opioid epidemic and sea-level rise.

Bestselling author and screenwriter T.J. English (Havana Nocturne, The Westies, NYPD Blue) on the Cuban-American bolita mob's evolution from the wreckage of the Cold War -- the subject of his new book, The Corporation. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Richmond City Councilman Parker Agelasto on his campaign to pass a cigarette tax to raise money for the city's crumbling schools. This is far easier said than done in the hometown of the nation's biggest tobacco company.

Famous investor Tom Dorsey (founder of Dorsey Wright, which Nasdaq bought in 2015) on the lessons of his more than four decades of working on and with Wall Street. Can you really beat the market? How much diversification is too much? We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

The story of Ironclad Coffee Roasters, a Virginia upstart that is taking the plunge into the cafe business -- with the help of family & friends and even crowdfunding. How do you win business vs corporate giants? How to clear a profit on a cup of coffee? How do you decide what to pay yourself? We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Ed Zitron, PR executive and author of the book Fire Your Publicist, dishes on the rampant bullshattery and worst practices of the public relations industry. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio, iTunes: FullDRadio.com

Bear Stearns and AIG veteran Ardavan Mobasheri on the decade since the economy and Wall Street's historic meltdown -- and what the market's recent surge in volatility is telling us. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio | Facebook.com/FullDRadio | iTunes at FullDRadio.com

Barry Ritholtz, founder and CIO at Ritholtz Wealth Management, on markets, risk aversion, AmazonBerkshire Health .... and maybe even a little bit of the Bitcoin. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Warren Buffett disciple Tom Gayner started at Markel Corp in 1990 and reinvented the insurer into an investing powerhouse with diverse holdings. Gayner's eye for good values (financial and cultural)helped propel Markel's stock to 93 times where it traded upon his arrival. We talk about his career, markets and the lost art of "value investing" in go-go-growth 2018.

Investor and b-school case-study darlings Facebook, Google and Amazon now sport a combined $2 trillion in value and enviable swathes of market share. The Economist's U.S. tech editor Alexandra Suich Bass on how the triumvirate's dominance is bad for consumers and competition.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer, is trying to ride this year's growing blue wave to win Virginia's 7th U.S. Congressional district. President Trump is unpopular, grassroots activists are buzzed and Democrats think the incumbent is vulnerable. The seat has been held by Republicans since 1971; the Tea Party snatched it in 2014 and Trump won the district by six points.

The Council on Foreign Relations president and veteran diplomat on the volatility of international affairs in the era of Trump. We discuss Haass's latest book, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order. [Twitter @FullDRadio | Facebook.com/FullDRadio]

Bloomberg Gadfly's Shira Ovide on tech's heady year...and the tensions and risks going into 2018. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Snapchat. Uber. Twitter. WholeFoodsPrime. It's all here.

Top-ranked financial advisors Dalal Salomon and Daniel Ludwin (Salomon & Ludwin: $1 billion in assets) on the increasingly tricky questions facing investors after yet another huge year for markets. Complacency is rampant. Nothing is really cheap. Who even remembers volatility? What's a correction? Is cash necessarily trash?

Do call it a comeback: How Patricia Williams went from a violent and hungry childhood, drug-dealing, teen motherhood and prison ("I've been shot twice and hit by a dump truck!") to breakout fame on the national comedy circuit. Her hot-selling memoir is Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat -- and you must read it. But first listen to this episode.

Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben of Rakontur -- the award-winning studio behind "Cocaine Cowboys" and ESPN's "The U" -- on stage at WNYC to make sense of Big Media & Entertainment's decline. Is anyone truly doing digital profitably? Who pays for journalism anymore? And Miami ... just what is it about Miami?

Eli Lake of Bloomberg View on the increasingly uneasy plate tectonics of international relations in the Middle East, from Saudi Arabia's feud with Iran and its implications on Beirut; to Israel's newfound love for Riyadh; and Syria and Baghdad's debt to Tehran. Oh, and has anyone seen Lebanon's Prime Minister?

Brandcenter chief Helayne Spivak started out in 1973 as a Madison Ave receptionist. She endured rampant sexism to work her way up to copywriter and then decorated industry exec. "#MeToo", she now says, in this season of confession for victims of sexual harassment and abuse...in Hollywood, corporate America, newsrooms...just about everywhere.

Former AT&T Broadband CEO Leo Hindery on the dizzying ways content and distribution are (once again) tag-teaming, from AT&T-Time Warner to Verizon-AOL-YaHooffPo and free Netflix on T-Mobile. Fat pipes. Dumb pipes. Skinny bundles. Cord-shaving. Fed-up subscribers. Elusive margins. We've got it all on this week's show.

The Economist's Simon Cox on the implications of lofty asset prices across the planet -- the magazine's recent cover topic. Stocks, real estate, farmland....seemingly nothing is cheap in 2017. Does it all have to end in heartbreak? We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Willie Falcon started dealing cocaine in 1970s Miami. He was on the run from the law in the '80s; captured and prosecuted in the '90s; sentenced in the '00s. Now, the Feds want to deport him to his native Cuba. Smuggling pal Carlos Ruiz and "Cocaine Cowboys" producer Alfred Spellman on the five-decade pursuit of Miami's most famous kingpin.

Reeling from a $70-billion financial crisis, the very last thing Puerto Rico needed was wholesale destruction by massive hurricanes. The territory is losing population to the mainland U.S.; the power is out everywhere; everything is rusted or damaged and San Juan is broke. Puerto Rico Clearinghouse's Cate Long on the stark choices facing the island. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Miami dodged catastrophe when Hurricane Irma swerved. Even so, much of its downtown ended up submerged. Keeping the sea at bay has rapidly become costlier and more complicated for this Pan-American boomtown, whose skyline holds record foreign wealth. What if...? I talked to condo power broker Alicia Cervera Lamadrid and the Miami Herald's Nick Nehamas. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Unemployment's low. Stocks are at highs. The financial crisis is a distant memory. So why are interest rates still so stubbornly low? And how will they get back up to some level of "normalcy"? We ask Al Broaddus, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He joined the Fed back in 1970.

Wall Street analyst Rich Greenfield is outspoken in his belief that Walt Disney Co., parent of struggling ESPN, is in trouble. The CEO blocked him on Twitter. He's ignored on Disney's analyst calls. You know the House-of-Mouse of Pain is in effect, y'all.