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Erika Soderstrom

Associate Producer

Erika works with a group of extraordinary producers to chase business and economic stories heard on “Marketplace Morning Report.”

Latest from Erika Soderstrom

  • Hu Maolin was left in the care of his grandmother when he was two years old, while his parents worked in the cities.
    Photo courtesy of Shanghai 808 Studio

    The GM worker strike isn’t just about GM workers. Wellness programs make it into Obamacare. How the trade war is affecting small shoe part suppliers across China.

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  • WeWork’s bad week spells trouble for Softbank
    Photo by Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images

    Growing economic inequality is spurring resentment among Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy protestors. Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s investment in WeWork is under scrutiny. Travelers are feeling increasingly guilty about flying.

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  • Debt, parents, society
    Sylvia Li for Marketplace

    The trade war will slow trade growth this year. Parents are saving for their kids’ college, but it still might not be enough. Credit Suisse is embroiled in a spying scandal.

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  • SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gives an update on the next-generation Starship spacecraft at the company's Texas launch facility on September 28, 2019 in Boca Chica near Brownsville, Texas.
    Loren Elliott/Getty Images

    Republican Congressman Chris Collins resigns amid accusations of insider trading. Chinese shoemakers struggle with rising costs and wages. The consequences of union busting on social media.

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  • Credit Suisse embroiled in corporate spying scandal
    Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

    Switzerland’s second-biggest investment bank sees its chief operating officer resign. Japan raises its controversial sales tax to 10%. China’s formerly turbo-charged economy is slowing as it celebrates the 70th anniversary of Communist rule.

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  • China's President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at a reception to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 30, 2019.
    NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images

    Are stable markets the quiet before the impeachment storm? China turns 70 as its economy sees slowing. Facebook’s digital currency faces a delay.

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  • Huawei Technologies Co. Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves the British Columbia Superior Courts at lunch hour on September 23, 2019 in Vancouver, Canada.
    Karen Ducey/Getty Images

    Fast fashion retailer Forever 21 files for bankruptcy. Businesses chafe at new employee data reporting meant to close the pay gap. Is China retaliating against Canadian farmers over Huawei?

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  • India bans onion exports to try tame rising prices
    Virendra Singh Gosain/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince claims that oil prices could become “unimaginably high” over Iran. The Kingdom is also trying to lure more tourists to its first resort open to non-Muslims. In India, onion prices are a political issue.

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  • Nuns hold a banner of Pope Francis reading "I ask you in the name of God to defend Mother Earth" during the Global Climate March in Bogota, Colombia, on November 29, 2015, on the eve of the UN conference on climate change COP 21, to take place in Paris.
    GUILLERMO LEGARIA/AFP/Getty Images

    Consumer confidence looks to be waning. VCs — and the Pope — are going green. Bills are piling up for GM and strikers.

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  • A picture taken on March 31, 2018 shows a Saudi man and journalist visiting the Madain Saleh, a UNESCO World Heritage site, near Saudi Arabia's northwestern town of al-Ula.
    FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images

    How likely is another government shutdown? A stock exchange calls it quits. Saudi Arabia opens up to tourists.

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