Kimberly Adams

Correspondent

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Kimberly Adams is Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent and the co-host of the Marketplace podcast, “Make Me Smart.” She regularly hosts other Marketplace programs, and reports from the nation’s capital on the way politics, technology, and economics show up in our everyday lives. Her reporting focuses on empowering listeners with the tools they need to more deeply engage with society and our democracy.

Adams is also the host and editor of APM’s "Call to Mind", a series of programs airing on public radio stations nationwide aimed at changing the national conversation about mental health.

Previously, Kimberly was a foreign correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt, reporting on the political, social, and economic upheaval following the Arab Spring for news organizations around the world. She has received awards for her work from the National Press Club, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Religion Communicators Council, and the Association for Women in Communication.

Latest Stories (833)

For U.S. companies, costs are rising. This is how tariffs work.

Jul 25, 2018
General Motors shares tumbled Wednesday as the company cited rising steel and aluminum costs as one reason for a smaller profit forecast. GM is not alone. Whirlpool, Coca-Cola and others are starting to tell the story of pain from the steel and aluminum tariffs in earnings reports, price projections and CEO interviews. None of this […]

For some workers, the economy looks good enough to take a chance on a new job

Jul 11, 2018
More Americans are quitting their jobs nowadays, according to the latest numbers out from the Labor Department. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) shows that in May, the “quits rate” hit its highest level in 17 years.  That means that in some sectors, workers feel good enough about the economy to leave a […]

Tariffs can push prices in either direction

Jul 5, 2018
Trade fight. Trade skirmish. Possible trade war. We’ve been hedging our language around what the Trump administration’s multiple rounds of tariffs actually mean. But come midnight tonight, when $34 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods are supposed to kick in, all that talk of trade war starts to look a lot more real and a […]

Economic effects of the heatwave

Jul 4, 2018
A heat wave has been frying parts of the midwest and northeast. It’s had millions of people blasting their air conditioning at full power. That is causing record surges in electricity demand in some places and will lead to some higher than expected electric bills for businesses and individuals. So, what’s this weather doing economically? […]

Senators head to Moscow for pre-summit talks and look-see

Jul 2, 2018
Congress is out this week for its Fourth of July break. But rather than go back home to their districts, a handful of senators are in Russia. They are getting their own sense of what’s happening there ahead of President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a couple of week. Click the […]

Greater scrutiny of Chinese investment still likely

Jun 27, 2018
The Trump administration announced it is not imposing additional investment restrictions on China for now. Instead, the White House endorsed a plan working through Congress to reform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. It’s an interagency committee, commonly known as CFIUS, that doesn’t come up much in casual conversation, not even in […]

Big tech and other companies decry Supreme Court travel ban ruling

Jun 26, 2018
Business leaders say President Trump’s travel ban goes against their values and hurts economically.

No one knows how a military Space Force would work, exactly

Jun 26, 2018
The Department of Defense is expected to send a report on the structure of the proposed sixth branch of the military by August.
Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. salutes the U.S. flag on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969.
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Short-termism not long for Wall Street?

Jun 7, 2018
Only about a quarter of public companies continue to include earnings predictions in their quarterly reports. Guidance is not required by law, and experts say it has become the tail that wags the dog. Once companies forecast earnings for the coming quarter, they manage their businesses to meet — or beat — those forecasts, which […]

The U.S. trade deficit got smaller in April but a wider lens shows a less rosy picture

Jun 6, 2018
Fluctuations in the trade deficit coupled with recent trade tensions cause a rebalancing of trade flow.