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Amy Scott

Host & Senior Correspondent, Housing

Amy Scott is the host of “How We Survive,” Marketplace's climate solutions podcast, and a senior correspondent covering housing, climate and the economy. She is also a frequent guest host of Marketplace programs. Since 2001, Amy has held many roles at Marketplace and covered many beats, from the culture of Wall Street to education and housing. Her reporting has taken her to every region of the country as well as Egypt, Dubai and Germany.  Her 2015 documentary film, “Oyler,” about a Cincinnati public school fighting to break the cycle of poverty in its traditionally urban Appalachian neighborhood, has screened at film festivals internationally and was broadcast on public television in 2016. She's currently at work on a film about a carpenter's mission to transform an abandoned block in west Baltimore into a community of Black women homeowners. Amy has won several awards for her reporting, including a SABEW Best in Business podcast award in 2023, Gracie awards for outstanding radio series in 2013 and 2014 and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting in 2012. Before joining Marketplace, Amy worked as a reporter in Dillingham, Alaska, home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run. These days she's based in Baltimore.

Latest from Amy Scott

  • Elizabeth Moran, was a vice president of talent management at Lehman Brothers. She tells how she's adapting to her new life away from Wall Street.

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  • Does your financial adviser put your interests first? Some brokers are allowed to sell you products they have a personal interest in pushing. Amy Scott reports.

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  • In the last few weeks, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have all bounced big time — and taxpayers are big investors in all three. But Amy Scott tells us why it might not be a good idea to invest even though these seem like hot stocks.

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  • President Obama announced today he wants Ben Bernanke to stick around for another term as Fed chairman. Another term of steering the U.S. economy out of recession, dodging inflation, dealing with critics…. Amy Scott reports.

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  • The world's central bankers are gathering in Wyoming to wrestle with the state of the global economy. New York bureau chief Amy Scott talks with Bill Radke about what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had to say at the retreat.

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  • NFL legend Brett Favre is delaying retirement yet again. Will the quarterback boost the bottom line for his new team, the Minnesota Vikings? Amy Scott reports.

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  • Despite fatter paychecks from stimulus money and a boost from the Cash for Clunkers program, retail sales fell last month. Amy Scott asked around and found a lot of economists were taken by surprise.

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  • The World Trade Organization ruled today that China broke free trade agreements by restricting U.S. imports of books and other media. That could open up the Chinese market for American publishers and film studios. Amy Scott reports.

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  • If you hit the mute button once an obnoxious commercial comes on TV, you might be happy to know Congress may turn down the volume on ultra-loud advertising. Amy Scott explains.

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  • Flash orders let Wall Street members see orders to buy or sell stock milliseconds before they to the public. The SEC wants to ban the practice, but traders aren't putting up a fight. Some are ceasing the method before it causes an uproar. Amy Scott reports.

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