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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.

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.

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.

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.

New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff on his relationship with his late, cocaine-addicted father -- and the grit it took to strike out on his own to become a nationally renowned journalist. In 2018, Itzkoff published a bestselling biography of tormented funnyman Robin Williams, who he got to know before his 2014 death.

Fueled by celebrity promotion, Shelly Tygielski's Pandemic of Love movement connects donors with people in Covid need. The lapsed corporate executive discusses her immigrant upbringing, quarter-life crises and her upcoming book, Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World.

Dr. Robert Winn, director of VCU's Massey Cancer Center, on breakthroughs in prevention, detection and intervention in the COVID era. Plus, Traci Eagle and Vickie Brooks (musical duo Tray and Vickie) on how fighting hate has helped Eagle's fight against cancer.

The unrest in Cuba -- some of the most violent scenes in more than 40 years -- also has the Miami street stirring. What are the stakes for a regime that's been in power since 1959? What can Washington do? What should Washington do?

Ri Sharma, 21, the voice behind Instagram forum Wall Street Confessions, always thought she wanted to go into investment banking. Then she realized there's too much in the industry that no one is talking about. Nicknamed "the Carrie Bradshaw of Finance," the Manhattanite discusses her personal journey; the mental health of junior employees; and the traumas that go with being a woman on Wall Street.

As he approaches his own retirement, veteran personal finance columnist Jonathan Clements reflects on 35 years of covering investing and the markets. The author of several books (including From Here to Financial Happiness and How to Think About Money), he contemplates risk, humility, "normalcy," advice to his younger self -- and much more.

Photographer, documentary maker, author, child of the Rust Belt, self-proclaimed "urban explorer": Seph Lawless (VICELAND; the book Autopsy of America) documents decaying spaces -- from dead malls and haunted houses, to abandoned factories and motels; even alligators terrorizing defunct water parks. What do these tableaus tell us about America?