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Paddy Hirsch

Senior Editor, Marketplace

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Paddy Hirsch is a former Contributing Editor at Marketplace and the creator and former host of the Marketplace Whiteboard. 

Latest Stories (452)

Daily Pulse

U.S. falls in competitive stakes

by Paddy Hirsch
Sep 7, 2011
America is now the fifth competitive economy in the world. The World Economic Forum dropped the U.S. one place in its rankings, putting America...
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Stay cool, America

by Paddy Hirsch
Sep 6, 2011
The U.S. is still the coolest kid on the block. So says a survey of 30,000 people all round the world by badoo.com. We knew this all the time, of...
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Strike out: More workers take to the picket lines

by Paddy Hirsch
Sep 5, 2011
Work stoppages and strikes are on the rise. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that we're tracking to have more workers on strike this...
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Marketplace Whiteboard®

WHITEBOARD: Fiscal policy vs. monetary policy

by Paddy Hirsch
Sep 5, 2011
Often conflated, often confused, fiscal and monetary policies take very different approaches to influence the economy. And they rely on two very ...
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The New American dream? Try the lottery

by Paddy Hirsch
Sep 2, 2011
What is that, exactly? A good job? Your own house? Your own car? Americans appear to be substituting that dream for a more immediate reverie:...
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News In Brief

Data Points

by Paddy Hirsch
Sep 1, 2011
Mortgage rates are scraping along near historic lows, Freddie Mac says in its latest survey of what lenders are offering to well-qualified...
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No more land of the free?

by Paddy Hirsch
Sep 1, 2011
Want free checking? Don't go to a big bank. A report from Moebs Services, which tracks banking activity, says the number of big banks offering fr...
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News In Brief

Market timing

by Paddy Hirsch
Aug 31, 2011
A report by the Institute for Policy Studies that 25 corporate CEOs earned more than their companies paid in taxes attracted a surprising amount of...
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News In Brief

Data Points 8/31

by Paddy Hirsch
Aug 31, 2011
August Chicago PMI came in at 56.5 beating estimates but below the July figure. The number was the lowest since November 2009. (via Clusterstock)...
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Trade off

by Paddy Hirsch
Aug 31, 2011
Trade in America is slowing. A report from the OECD today says the growth we saw in both imports and exports earlier this year is settling back a...
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