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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

  • Economist Gary Schilling explains what it means to be two full years from the low point of the stock market. And what it means for ordinary investors.

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  • The government announced this morning that the U.S. economy only grew at a rate of 2.8 percent last quarter — after originally reporting it grew at 3.2 percent. Jeremy Hobson speaks to Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at Key Private Bank, about what that means for the economic recovery.

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  • Deep water drilling has been on hold in the Gulf of Mexico since the disastrous BP oil spill. But industry executives say they're ready to resume drilling. Jeremy Hobson speaks with Barbara Shook, Houston bureau chief for the Energy Intelligence Group.

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  • Jeremy Hobson speaks with Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial, on how the turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa will affect the global economic recovery.

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  • On Tuesday, Senate Democratic leaders called for negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, on federal spending cuts to avoid any government shutdowns. House Speaker Boehner says he's open to a short term bill, as long it includes cuts to spending. Jeremy Hobson discusses the cuts with Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.

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  • Jeremy Hobson speaks with Juli Niemann, analyst with Smith Moore and Company, about the unrest in Libya and the effect it's having on the global price of oil.

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  • Jeremy Hobson speaks to Dan Cook, CEO of IG Markets, about the two big economic issues of the week — inflation and debt. These two issues are front-and-center in the U.S. and around the world. Dan Cook explains the impact.

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  • David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times discusses why online credit card fraud is becoming a big problem, and how to best guard yourself from it.

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  • Jeremy Hobson speaks to Richard DeKaser, economist at the Parthenon Group, about today's inflation numbers from the U.S. Labor Department.

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  • The Commerce Department this morning reported retails sales rose 0.3 percent in January. Sales have increased for seven consecutive months. Jeremy Hobson speaks with Juli Niemann, Analyst at Smith Moore and Company, about what this means for the U.S. economy.

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