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Tracey Samuelson

SHORT BIO

Tracey Samuelson is a former senior reporter for Marketplace.

What was your first job?

Working in a bread store at the peak of the anti-carb movement.

What do you think is the hardest part of your job that no one knows?

Cramming all the interesting information I find reporting into a few minutes.

In your next life, what would your career be?

ER doctor.

Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______.

Lots of stuff from Amazon.

What’s your most memorable Marketplace moment?

That time I went to Hawaii ... on assignment.

Episodes by Tracey (14)

Marketplace Morning Report

Are you being crushed by student loan debt? Come on down!

Oct 11, 2019
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Who are the victims of economic abuse?

Oct 11, 2019
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Marketplace Tech

Does encryption help with privacy, or does it violate public safety?

Oct 9, 2019
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Marketplace Morning Report

The street cred of stealing an "Old Town Road" sign

Sep 11, 2019
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Reaching out to women to curb gun violence

Sep 11, 2019
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Marketplace Tech

What happens if the trade war hits the tech industry?

Jun 21, 2019
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Forced tech transfers happen. But how do they actually work?

Jun 20, 2019
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Facebook's crypto dream

Jun 19, 2019
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Marketplace Morning Report

The company town dealing with the Boeing fallout

Apr 5, 2019
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The cost of the crawl at the border

Apr 5, 2019
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Latest Stories (475)

How finances keep people in abusive relationships

by Tracey Samuelson and Rose Conlon
Oct 11, 2019
For domestic violence survivors, economic abuse can have lasting effects.
Cecilia Carlstedt for the California Sunday Magazine
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The tricky business of investment restrictions

by Tracey Samuelson
Sep 30, 2019
The Trump administration is reportedly considering limiting U.S. investments in China as part of the trade war.
The Trump administration might force some Chinese companies to de-list from American stock exchanges. Above, Alibaba Group opens on the NYSE in 2014.
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Impeachment inquiry will likely stall legislative agenda

by Tracey Samuelson
Sep 26, 2019
Priorities are expected to shift in the coming weeks and months.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces a formal impeachment inquiry on September 24, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
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From an idled GM plant to a UAW picket line

by Tracey Samuelson
Sep 20, 2019
The No. 1 issue on this assembly line worker's strike agenda? End GM's use of temporary workers.
Members of the United Auto Workers Union picket outside the General Motors assembly plant on Sept. 16 in Wentzville, Missouri.
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Striking GM workers’ concerns include health care, temp workers

by Tracey Samuelson
Sep 18, 2019
Pay and benefits for temps is front of mind for many strikers.
Members of the United Automobile Workers who are employed at the General Motors Co. Flint Assembly plant in Flint, Michigan, slow down salaried employees entering the plant as they strike early on Sept. 16.
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What GM workers are thinking as they join picket lines

by Tracey Samuelson
Sep 16, 2019
"We're getting little pennies compared to [GM executives]," one worker told Marketplace's Tracey Samuelson.
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Michigan bans flavored e-cigarettes

by Tracey Samuelson
Sep 5, 2019
San Francisco banned the sale of e-cigarettes earlier this year. Now Michigan becomes the first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
A variety of e-cigarette flavors are viewed for sale at Vape New York in 2013 in New York City.
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What's the appeal of the "century bond"?

by Tracey Samuelson
Aug 29, 2019
Investors would sign up to loan the U.S. government money for 50 or even 100 years.
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Will shareholders make way for other stakeholders?

by Tracey Samuelson
Aug 19, 2019
CEO group Business Roundtable says companies should consider how they're affecting employees, customers and society — in addition shareholders.
JPMorgan Chase will report earnings tomorrow.
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How the closings of two auto plants changed Hamtramck and Detroit's Poletown

by Tommy Andres and Tracey Samuelson
Aug 14, 2019
When the Dodge Main plant closed in 1979, local leaders offered GM tax breaks and more land to move in. Now the GM plant is closing, too.
"The Spirit of Detroit" monument sits downtown. In the background is the Renaissance Center, where GM is headquartered.
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