SHORT BIO
Jeff Horwich is the interim host of Marketplace Morning Report and a sometime-Marketplace reporter. He is the former host of "In The Loop" from Minnesota Public Radio and a former business and economics correspondent for MPR. He is a graduate of Duke University and has a Master's in applied economics from the University of Minnesota.
Latest Stories (451)
What markets can hope for with the fiscal cliff deadline
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 27, 2012
For weeks now the major indexes have jumped on days when a fiscal cliff deal seemed possible. What might investors realistically hope for at this point as the deadline draws near?
PODCAST: Starbucks takes on the fiscal cliff, will Obama re-up refi?
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 26, 2012
Twas the day after Christmas, and a big credit card company says we were not spending enough -- go figure. Plus a plan to help more folks who are underwater on their mortgages. And a single-payer healthcare system is on its way to Indonesia.
U.S. may expand mortgage refinance program
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 26, 2012
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Obama administration is eying new relief for underwater homeowners. Who stands to gain from the program?
PODCAST: NYSE finds a mate, Boeing sacks up potatoes
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 20, 2012
Could the New York Stock Exchange have at last found a soul mate regulators can live with? In Europe, the Catholic Organization Opus Dei has gotten into a fight with a small Danish game-maker. And Boeing uses potatoes to test in-flight Wi-Fi.
Key Apple smartphone patent rejected
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 20, 2012
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has dealt Apple some bitter news.
The UBS LIBOR emails... in haiku
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 20, 2012
Those internal emails of UBS LIBOR rate-rigging do have a certain poetic ring to them...
PODCAST: Goodbye 'Government Motors', hello 'eagle baby'
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 19, 2012
GM wants you to never, ever call it 'Government Motors' again. Ralph Reed, of the Christian Coalition and more lately the Faith and Freedom Coalition, stops by to talk about what social conservatives want out of budget negotiations. And the most precise, nastiest-tasting Gingerbread house you've ever had the pleasure to not eat.
Ralph Reed on the budget deficit and fiscal cliff
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 19, 2012
Some treasured tax breaks are coming in for close scrutiny, and one of the country's leading social conservatives is weighing in on the matter.
Homebuilding slows down in November
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 19, 2012
After a rush of homebuilding in October, November turned out to be a little muted. Much of that you can blame on Sandy -- the storm definitely seems to have slowed down construction in the Northeast.
PODCAST: How rich is 'rich' and a Big Mac for Christmas?
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Jeff Horwich
Dec 18, 2012
For fiscal cliff tax hikes, just how rich is 'rich'? Officials are wrangling with a particular type of home business in the home of country music and news this morning that you can probably get a Big Mac on Christmas Day if you want to, but be sure to spare a kind word for the person behind the counter.