Andie Corban

Producer

Andie is a producer of Marketplace's flagship daily program. She produces field stories, economic explainers and interviews with government officials, small-business owners, CEOs and others. Andie joined Marketplace in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles.

Before Marketplace, Andie led the news department at Rhode Island radio station WBRU. She also worked at Boston's NPR station, WBUR, and her investigative reporting has been published in The Providence Journal newspaper. She has a degree in public policy from Brown University.

In her free time, Andie enjoys baking new recipes (or just making her favorite chocolate chip cookies) and going to movie screenings across Los Angeles. She was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Latest from Andie Corban

Jul 6, 2026
Back-to-school shopping? Already?
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Anxiety over higher prices and pandemic-holdover retail schedules have families shopping early. Plus: Great Lakes algae, a native plants nursery, energy grid strain, and consumer moods.
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Jul 6, 2026
Chicago Fed launches a new consumer sentiment composite index
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How consumers feel about the economy used to line up with how they spent. These days, not so much.
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Jul 3, 2026
Trading up to an AI-proof career
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A trade school in North Carolina is trying to get more women and non-binary people into careers in the trades — a more steady, AI-proof field than most. Plus, country stores, labor force participation, and a tailoring business.
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Jul 2, 2026
An underwhelming June jobs report
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There’s no widespread layoffs, and the unemployment rate kicked down, but economists expected double the amount of new jobs added. Plus, wage growth, de-extinction, the “lump of labor” fallacy, Saudi Aramco, and a social worker with a tour guide side hustle.
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Jul 1, 2026
What would make Kevin Warsh consider a "Fed put?"
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With a new Federal Reserve chair, can we expect a “Fed put” to promote stability in financial markets? Plus, teen jobs, home building, prediction markets, rush hour, and cowboy boots.
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Jun 30, 2026
A confusing economy means a less confident consumer
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New data showed a slight increase in consumer confidence in June, though mixed signals from the economy could mean that’s temporary. Plus, a widening gender wage gap, small business struggles, remote work’s impact on parenting, and natural gas pipelines.
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Jun 29, 2026
The president's new power over independent agencies
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The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday expanded presidential power over independent agencies — with the Fed as an exception. Plus, transportation costs, infrastructure projects, Comcast’s spinoff, and L.A. estate sales.
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Jun 29, 2026
What it's like running an LA estate sale business
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After using an online estate sale business to sell her late mother’s goods, Amy Byer knew she’d found a new career path. Now people wait for hours to attend her estate sales.
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Jun 26, 2026
The AI inflation roller coaster
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AI is likely to accelerate inflation over the course of the next year, but some economists say it could eventually bring the prices of goods and services down. Plus, we’ll look at garage sales, restaurant matchbooks, and how a union is saving on healthcare.
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Jun 25, 2026
Inflation sped up in May. What's to blame?
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High energy prices were a big factor — even when you take literal energy costs out of the equation. Plus: cargo shipping, screwworm, GDP, and Gen Z dating.
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