geoff: roben farzad, host of the full disclosure podcast, thanks as always for your insights, friend. pleasure. thank you, geoff. ♪ geoff: the islamic republic of iran is no stranger to popular uprisings. the regime cracked down on protests in 2009, and again ten years later. but the demonstrations sweeping the country today are different. they're being led by young people, and are playing out both in the streets, and online. ali: after two weeks of protests, and brutal government backlash -- [explosion] iranian activists, predominantly young women, remain defiant. the protests started earlier this year over high prices, but erupted in mid-september after the death of 22-year-old mahsa amini. she died in police custody after being arrested by iran's morality police, who said she was wearing her hijab improperly. [chanting] since demonstrations began, more than 80 people have been killed. >> down with terrorist regime! ali: and protests have spread to other countries, from the u.s. to turkey, where an iranian woman cut her hair -- a popular act of resistance. nasibe: today, men and wom

with us now to talk more about this is roben farzad, host of the "full disclosure." why do you think that the gdp fall -- it fell during the first six months of the year, but now we're seeing a rise in this third quarter. why do you think that is? >> it's a resilient economy. it's hard to keep it down. i like to frame it as the fed versus fomo, fear of missing out. all the people who want to travel and dine out and trying to hire homebuilders and whatnot. it's a resilient economy and there are tranches and tranches of savings and leftover money that was saved during the pandemic that is difficult to extinguish the force of if you're the fed and the fed has taken up rates by three quarters of a point and it's going to do so again and probably again after that. and right now it's this kind of battle of wills. at what point does the economy cry uncle. i think many people are surprised at how resilient it is. >> the price of basic food items continues to rise. the basic foodstuffs that people need to have in their home continues rising. milk up 15%. look at these. eggs,