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Jeremy Hobson

Former Host, Marketplace Morning Report

Jeremy Hobson is the former host of  Marketplace Morning Report. Hobson started at Marketplace in 2007 as a reporter based in Washington, D.C.  He later covered Wall Street and its impact on ordinary Americans for Marketplace, based in the New York City bureau. He started reporting from New York one week before Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.  Hobson hosted Marketplace Morning Report from 2011 through 2013. Before joining Marketplace, Hobson frequently found himself in the right place at the right time when it came to big stories: He was calling Florida precincts for NPR’s 2000 election coverage, he was working for Boston’s WBUR during the Boston Catholic Church Sex Abuse scandal, and he was an intern for NPR’s Guy Raz in Turkey at the start of the Iraq War. In addition to those roles, Hobson has worked as producer for NPR’s All Things Considered, Day to Day and Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! He has also worked as a host and reporter for public radio stations WILL Urbana, WCAI Cape Cod and WRNI Providence. Hobson’s radio career began in earnest at the age of nine when he started contributing to a program called Treehouse Radio.  Hobson is a graduate of Boston University and the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. He lives in New York and enjoys hiking, traveling and extremely spicy foods.

Latest from Jeremy Hobson

  • It's the anniversary of George H.W. Bush famous tax quote. The tiny island of Cyprus is the latest eurozone nation seeking a bailout. And News Corps is on the splits, according to The Wall Street Journal. All that and more in today's Mid-Day Update Podcast.

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  • Egypt has a new president-elect. It's Mohamed Morsi, whose political party, the Muslim Brotherhood, was banned while former President Hosni Mubarak was in office.

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  • A decision is expected from the Supreme Court on President Obama's health care overhaul, which is sure to have big economic implications however it is decided — but there are some other high stakes battles going on.

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  • One of the fastest growing segments of the cosmetics market is actually products geared towards men. According to the research firm Mintel, sales of men's toiletries could hit $3.2 billion by 2016.

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  • According to Democratic Congressman Howard Berman, helicopter noise in Southern California is getting way too loud and frequent, and that's why he's pushing for new federal regulations.

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  • Global markets are down about a percent this morning after the rating agency Moody's downgraded the credit ratings of 15 of the largest banks in the world. Among them, European institutions — but also big American banks like JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America.

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  • The new track and field uniforms for this year's Olympic games were recently unveiled by Nike.

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  • If you've been to a gas station recently, you know that prices are down — on average, about 20 cents lower per gallon than a month ago. That's in part because the price of oil is at an eight-month low.

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  • Big pizza chains like Domino's and Papa John's have banned together in a coalition called The American Pizza Community to stop proposed calorie-labeling regulations.

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  • In Egypt, tens of thousands of protestors have returned to Tahrir Square in Cairo. They're responding to the country's recent presidential election between a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a candidate tied to former President Hosni Mubarak.

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