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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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Marketplace Morning Report

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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Marketplace Morning Report

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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Marketplace Tech

Forced tech transfers happen. But how do they actually work?

Jun 20, 2019
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Marketplace Tech

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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Marketplace Morning Report

The cost of the crawl at the border

Apr 5, 2019
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Latest Stories (475)

Why is job growth so sluggish? Small businesses

by Tracey Samuelson
Jun 5, 2019
The labor market's too tight for them to compete for workers.
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Economic Anxiety Index®

What if we shortened the workweek?

by Tracey Samuelson
Jun 4, 2019
The five-day workweek is ingrained in American culture.
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When the yield curve inverts, how nervous should we be?

by Tracey Samuelson
May 29, 2019
Historically, an inverted yield curve has spelled recession.
The New York Stock Exchange on a rainy day in New York City last week.
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U.S. and Japan at odds over auto imports

by Tracey Samuelson
May 24, 2019
Or whether Japan can actually deliver.
This December 8, 2017 picture shows workers assembling fourth generation Toyota Prius cars on the production line at the company's Tsutsumi assembly plant in Toyota City, Aichi prefecture.
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New York City turns to dry ice to control its rat population

by Tracey Samuelson
May 23, 2019
The frozen carbon dioxide is more effective than rodenticide in some cases. But experts say cities will never eradicate rats.
New York City exterminator Joseph Rodriguez drops dry ice pellets into a rat burrow. The dry ice turns into a gas, essentially suffocating the rats with carbon dioxide.
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Changing supply chains isn't as easy as 1, 2, 3

by Tracey Samuelson
May 22, 2019
Some companies are better suited to change where they get things made than others.
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How the CBO became "God" in Washington's budget battles

by Tracey Samuelson
May 15, 2019
Credit the agency's founding director, Alice Rivlin, who died this week.
Keith Hall, Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), arrives to testify about CBO's Budget and Economic Outlook for Fiscal Year 2019-2029, during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 29, 2019.
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Export-Import Bank might shake years of reduced powers

by Tracey Samuelson
May 7, 2019
The Senate will vote on confirming three new board members who would enable the Export-Import Bank to perform its full mission. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
People arrive for the U.S. Export-Import Bank's annual conference in Washington, D.C., in 2013.
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What does "tight labor market" mean? Opportunity!

by Tracey Samuelson
May 3, 2019
Workers' bargaining power is greater.
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Worker productivity is booming. Why is inflation so tame?

by Tracey Samuelson
May 2, 2019
Additional production isn't translating to additional income.
Colby College, a small, private liberal arts college, will open the doors to the Davis Institute of Artificial Intelligence this fall. It plans on expanding the curriculum of AI and machine learning to all areas of study.
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