Roben Farzad

Full Disclosure Host, NPROne
Affiliated Chapter

Keynote Speaker

Session Title: Institutional Memory

Overview:

Roben Farzad Is a PBS News Hour special correspondent who hosts Full Disclosure on NRP One. He began his career in journalism in 2000 after managing billions of assets for Latin American clients with Goldman Sachs. He has the charisma, the education, and the experience of writing and commenting on markets, business, and the culture of business for decades. 

 

The Fiscal and Monetary policies of today are rooted in market cycles of the past. High inflation, low inflation, high-interest rates, low interest rates. We as investors tend to take the most recent information and project those assumptions in the future forgetting those times of the past and adjusting for the present. What does that adjustment mean to our global economy, consumer confidence, market expectations, and ultimately shifts in our culture? Roben asks those thought-provoking questions that are here and now around Fed Policy, Fintech advances, and geopolitics.

Attendees will discuss:

  • Contemplating the differences and similarities between past and present Federal Reserve Policies 

Evaluating the regulatory environment and the banking role

About Roben:

  • Roben Farzad hosts the public radio show Full Disclosure, The Business of Culture | The Culture of Business • Media & Tech • Policy • Markets
  • He is a regular on NPR, MSNBC, PBS NewsHour and C-SPAN
  • Author: Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami (Penguin, 2017)
  • Formerly senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, covering Wall Street, international finance and emerging markets. Reported everywhere from Mozambique and Botswana to the Mideast and Medellín, Colombia, to the Dominican Republic and the Niger Delta.
  • Started career at Goldman Sachs, on a team that managed $1.8 billion in assets.
  • Appearances: MSNBC, CNN, PBS News Hour, C-SPAN, CNBC, Dateline NBC, ABC’s Good Morning America, the CBS Early Show and Charlie Rose. A regular on NPR. Bylines in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe. Born in Iran and raised in Miami.
  • Graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.