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Alex Schroeder

"Marketplace Morning Report" Producer

Alex is a producer for the “Marketplace Morning Report.” He's based in Queens, New York. Alex joined Marketplace in 2020, working as MMR's digital producer. After a little over a year, he became the show's overnight producer, getting up far before the crack of dawn to put together the day's newscasts with the host and team. Now, he works daylight hours, preparing interviews for the following morning and producing long-term specials and series. Before Marketplace, Alex worked on several national public radio shows produced out of WBUR in Boston. He was both a radio and digital producer with “On Point,” “Here & Now” and “Only a Game.” Alex also worked at The Boston Globe after graduating from Tufts University. Alex's interests outside of work tend to fall into one of two categories: film or soccer. (Come on Arsenal!) He’s always looking for ways to cover the economics of entertainment and sports on the “Marketplace Morning Report.”

Latest from Alex Schroeder

  • Indian workers produce soccer shoes at a manufacturing unit in Jalandhar.  (Photo by SHAMMI MEHRA / AFP//Getty Images)

    Duty-free status ends for some Indian goods exported to the U.S. Easy Jet faces a forced exit from London’s FTSE 100 exchange. A debt showdown looms between Italy and Brussels.

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  • 3rd May 1913:  Grand Marshal Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886 - 1916) leads a parade of 30,000 representives of the various Women's Suffrage associations through New York City.
    Paul Thompson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

    Lawmakers eye possible big tech collusion. Apple takes iTunes off the playlist. We take a history lesson on the suffragist lobby.

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  • Thousands of people take part in a march through central London in 2018 to protest against underfunding and privatisation of the NHS. (Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

    Australia slashes rates for the first time in three years. One of the U.K.’s biggest fund managers suspends trading in his largest fund as investors ask for their money back. Can Britain’s National Health Service open even more to private investment?

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  • In a simulated exercise, third-year orthopedic surgery resident J.P. Wanner practices making repairs to a dislocated hip on Osso VR's virtual reality platform. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is among a dozen institutions test piloting the technology.
    Blake Farmer

    President Trump heads back to the U.K. Why are emerging markets suffering lately? Your next surgery could happen thanks to VR.

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  • A younger, greater work-life balance
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    How to drop $19 billion on a real estate deal. U.S. lawmakers give a Chinese rail company the Huawei treatment. Young people are demanding a greater work-life balance.

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  • A British Airways aircraft taxies on a runway with the Pakistani and Union Jack flags upon landing at the Islamabad International Airport (Photo AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Will President Trump bolster America’s special relationship with Britain in his three-day state visit? Saudi Arabia gets an investment from one of the U.K.’s biggest businesses. How tourism could help revive Pakistan’s economy. 

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  • A billboard advertising a popular sports betting site is seen along a highway in Nairobi, on November 8, 2017.
    ONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images

    The inverted yield curve is back. The Earned Income Tax Credit could get an overhaul of its own. Kenyan regulators are keeping a watchful eye on online sports betting.

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  • Rapper Drake is seen wearing a Dell Curry jersey before Game One of the 2019 NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena on May 30, 2019 in Toronto, Canada.
    Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images

    Is a U.S.-Mexico tariff row brewing? Realtors fight antitrust allegations. America is rooting for the Toronto Raptors.

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  • Migrants taking part in a caravan heading to the US, rest next to a Mexican national flag. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP)

    President Trump targets Mexico in new tariff warning. Turkey exits recession. Lessons from Estonia’s reduction in opioid-related deaths.

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  • Nobel prize-winning US economist Joseph Stiglitz listens during the opening session of the 6th edition of the "Entretiens du Tresor" seminar at the Economy Ministry in Paris on January 31, 2017.
    ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images

    The economic growth of early 2019 could be waning. Greyhound’s British owner puts the company up for sale. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains “progressive capitalism.”

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