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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

  • As hedge funds in Greenwich, Conn. fall, so does the real estate. Amy Scott talked revenue loss and surveyed available commercial space around town with real estate agent Steven Greenbush, who works with financial firms.

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  • Money is getting tighter for the high-end shops on Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, Conn., which caters heavily to the finance industry. Amy Scott visited a few stores on the Avenue to find out what a markdown meant to them.

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  • Greenwich, Conn., is one of the wealthiest towns in America. Known as hedge fund central, the recession is starting to take its toll on the Wall Street bankers who have settled there. Amy Scott reports.

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  • With all the scrutiny banks are getting these days, the industry is being extra cautious. Goldman Sachs is moving its annual investor conference from Las Vegas to San Francisco, the latest sign of a new, more serious era on Wall Street. Amy Scott reports.

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  • Ever wish you could be like the women in James Bond movies? Enroll in the Stiletto Spy School and you can learn it all — from mixing the perfect martini to firing an uzi. Marketplace's Amy Scott took a crash course.

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  • Hedge funds will soon send out year-end letters, most of them detailing how much they lost in the last year. Even though investors might not be looking forward to the missives, some of them can be pretty entertaining. Amy Scott reports.

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  • Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker and a group of international financial titans are calling for a series of reforms to fix the broken financial system. Amy Scott reports.

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  • Every year young, ambitious business school graduates dreaming of wealth and power come to Wall Street. But with job losses mounting in the midst of the financial crisis, things have changed. Amy Scott reports on the world of Wall Street's upstarts.

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  • Carmakers come out today with December sales, and analysts are saying along with poor figures, there are fewer cars on the road. But there are signs truck and SUV sales may be healthier as gas prices decline. Amy Scott reports.

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  • Jobs with private equity firms are highly coveted positions in finance. But getting inside their secretive world can be difficult for outsiders. Amy Scott takes us inside with a woman who claims to be a part of it.

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