Jeff Tyler is a reporter for Marketplace’s Los Angeles bureau and reports on issues related to immigration and Latin America. Tyler began his career at Marketplace producing and editing stories and in 2000 his desire to report allowed him to move to the other side of the microphone becoming a foreign correspondent for the program. Tyler admits that working for Marketplace has given him a crash course in world economics. His work has taken him from Argentina and Brazil to Indonesia and Pakistan. A California native, Tyler is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. After college, he worked for a travel guide company, writing a guide for Honduras and editing a travel guide for Mexico.
Features By Jeff Tyler
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Defense sector braces for Pentagon cuts
With the super committee looking less and less likely to succeed, defense contractors are planning for the worst: automatic cuts.
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Proposing a 21-nation free trade zone
This weekend, President Obama hosts the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu. At the top of the agenda is a proposal for a Pacific free trade zone. How would it work?
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European economic crisis hits some U.S. regions harder
As Europe's economy continues to sour, the impact here isn't borne equally around the nation. In fact, some regions don't feel it at all.
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Toyota earnings still stifled
Everything from natural disasters to the currency exchange rate may force Japan's largest auto maker to reduce its earnings forecast for the full year through next March.
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Napa wineries pitch in to house workers
Wine growers in Napa, Calif., are clubbing together to provide some of the best farm worker housing in the country -- and finding it makes good business sense.
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Southwest fuel hedge misstep
Southwest looked smart a couple of years ago when it managed to lock in low fuel prices before gas prices surged. Now it, too, has been caught by a volatile fuel market.
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Group asks major leaguers to spit out the chewing tobacco
Health officials and four U.S. senators have launched a campaign to keep smokeless tobacco out of baseball.
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The costs of tearing down abandoned homes
Banks are looking into taking foreclosed and abandoned houses off of their balance sheets by demolishing them. What are the costs involved?
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Banks demolish foreclosed homes, raise eyebrows
Banks faced with the costs of maintaining foreclosed homes are demolishing them instead. This makes economic sense, but it doesn't always look good.
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Prosecutors: Marijuana dispensaries make too much money
Federal prosecutors say that many marijuana dispensaries, meant to be non-profit, are raking in too much cash.
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