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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.

Harvard Business Review editor in chief Adi Ignatius on the 95-year old publication's reinvention for the smartphone age. After cutting its print frequency and doubling down on digital and subscriber-only content, HBR just posted record circulation growth. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio.

Dr. Stanton Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, on the FDA's surprise decision to target nicotine levels in cigarettes. Though U.S. smoking rates have been falling, cigarettes remain a cash-cow. Is this Big Tobacco's big reckoning? We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Jon Steinberg is CEO and founder of Cheddar, the "post-cable" news network that's drawing in investors, viewers and marketing partners. Big Media is rapidly getting disrupted. Netflix. Amazon. Apple. Facebook. AT&T-TimeWarner. Apps and digital startups. Everyone wants a wedge of the action. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio | Facebook.com/FullDRadio

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the author of two NY Times bestsellers and a former politics producer for ABC News. We talk about her career reinvention and U.S. foreign policy in the shadows of Iraq and Afghanistan. Twitter @FullDRadio