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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

  • The version of the financial reform bill which passed yesterday in the House may be threatened by the July 4 break.

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  • Chairman Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) participates in a Senate-House Conference Committee meeting on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C.
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    Congressmen negotiated a financial reform bill that both members of the House and the Senate could agree on, but will it keep our economy safe from future financial fall outs? Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson looks at how reform will affect the financial sector and Stacey Vanek Smith looks at how it'll affect the everyday consumer.

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  • The Commerce Department reported new home sales for the month of May dropped 33% to the lowest level on record. That's because home buyers stopped shopping for homes after the government stopped offering an $8,000 home buyer tax credit. The housing market got us into this recession, and Jeremy Hobson reports we're going to need it to help get us out.

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  • The New York State legislature passed a bill that will increase taxes on cigarettes by $1.60. That could mean New Yorkers might pay upwards of $9 to puff. Cigarette taxes are an easy way to raise revenue, but Jeremy Hobson reports other states aren't racing to follow New York's lead.

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  • The U.S. has been pushing China to unpack its currency years. But Jeremy Hobson reports it may be ordinary Chinese people that are cheering louder than ordinary Americans today.

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  • New FDA rules say cigarette makers can no longer market products as light, mild, or low. But tobacco companies will still be using color association.

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  • Merrill Lynch is being sued by wealthy investors, who lost millions of dollars after buying some complex pools of mortgages that went bad. The people who bought those pools were allowed to do so because they were considered sophisticated investors. Jeremy Hobson reports on why that term is so important.

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  • People are starting to pay a lot of attention to BP shareholders, specifically the dividend they're scheduled to get in a couple of months. That dividend is one of the only attractive things left about being a BP shareholder, unless Washington has anything to say about it. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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  • The word "bubble" might come to mind when you think of the Great Recession. And now there is some worry about another bubble developing — this time in the bond market. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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  • In the next few days, readers of The Times of London will have to pay $1.50 or $3 a week to read the general interest newspaper online. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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