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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

  • Two firms that provide arbitration for credit card and cell phone companies are reportedly saying they'll stop taking cases after a lawsuit accused one firm of wrongdoing. Steve Chiotakis gets more details from Marketplace's Amy Scott.

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  • Testifying today before Congress on Capitol Hill, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said he expects a gradual recovery beginning in 2010, but unemployment will continue to be a problem for a couple more years. Amy Scott reports.

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  • California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reached a deal yesterday to close the state's $26 billion deficit. The proposed budget makes deep cuts to public schools and health care for the poor, but also avoids new tax increases. Amy Scott reports.

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  • CIT reportedly cut a $3 billion deal with its bondholders to avoid bankruptcy, and markets are responding favorably to the news. Steve Chiotakis gets more from Marketplace's Amy Scott.

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  • A report out today will give finer details of how banks are using TARP money. While the cash helped most of the banks avoid a drop in lending, some invested the cash or used it to pay off debts. Amy Scott reports.

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  • Bank of America has benefited from its controversial buyout of Merrill Lynch. But regulators won't let the bank pay back their borrowed TARP funds anytime soon. Amy Scott explores why.

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  • Rather than fight increased regulation, some hedge funds and other investment firms are starting to embrace it. Amy Scott looks into the thinking behind the culture change and what will be involved in the clamp-down.

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  • Recessions can often lead to a risk of deflation, when declining consumer demand forces prices down. But lately, analysts have been worrying about the opposite — inflation. Even hyperinflation. Amy Scott reports.

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  • The latest issue of Boston's Bay State Banner could be its last. Amy Scott reports the recession is hurting a number of minority-owned and ethnic newspapers.

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  • The U.S. Treasury's plan to get private investors to buy mortgage-backed securities is expected any day now. But it turns out some banks have been quietly loading up on these bonds for months now. Amy Scott reports.

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