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Meredith Garretson Morbey

Supervisory Senior Producer

Meredith is a supervisory senior producer at Marketplace.

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  • U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the country is in talks with the U.K. to try to seal a mini-deal to reduce trade tariffs.
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    Plus, Brazil has reserved $4 billion for vaccines that the country could roll out starting in February. And, we hear from the Australian company behind the rapid, at-home coronavirus test, which has been approved in the U.S.

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  • Customers wear face masks while waiting in line to shop inside a Best Buy store on Black Friday in Hawthorne, Calif., on Nov. 27, 2020.
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    Also, record numbers of daily COVID deaths in Germany as the country enters a four-week lockdown. And, college athletics departments looking to compensate for lost income turn to gambling partnerships.

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  • Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., stands alongside a bipartisan group of Democrat and Republican members of Congress as they announce a proposal for a COVID-19 relief bill on Capitol Hill on Dec. 14, 2020 in Washington.
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    Plus, vaccines for residents and workers in long-term care facilities and nursing homes. And, an entrepreneur in Massachusetts has set up a text-based service to advise people if their material is racist.

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  • Australian barley farmers face 80% tariffs.
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    The trade dispute between Australia and China escalates, as Canberra moves to get the World Trade Organization involved over tariffs on Australian exports. And, in Santiago, Chile, protests to protect the country’s pioneering pension program.

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  • Clearing the way for another vaccine approval
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    The FDA said today that Moderna’s vaccine candidate has been found to be safe and 94% effective. Plus, the latest on the pandemic economy from the Federal Reserve. And, the future of organized labor under the Biden administration.

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  • Vials in boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Dec. 13, 2020.
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    The CDC’s “Social Vulnerability Index” tracks how disasters affect disadvantaged communities. Plus, the Federal Reserve begins its last interest rate meeting under President Donald Trump today. And, what’s next for the relationship between China and the U.S.?

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  • Big technology firms face new rules and regulations in the EU.
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    The EU is set to unveil new rules it says will “overhaul” the digital market, including how tech giants operate. Also, why Adidas is looking to sell its Reebok brand. And, a London brewpub on fighting to survive the latest round of coronavirus restrictions.

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  • An employee makes dry ice pellets at Capitol Carbonic, a dry ice factory, in Baltimore, Maryland, in November.
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    The first coronavirus vaccines are being delivered in the U.S. this morning. Plus, the Federal Reserve will take up the state of bond buying in its meeting this week. And, a growing greenhouse agriculture industry to support local produce even in winter.

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  • The administration proposed a student-loan repayment system based on earnings and family size in conjunction with its plan to cancel some student debt.
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    Marketplace senior economics contributor Chris Farrell thinks it’s become a matter of when and how much debt will be canceled.

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  • If not one coronavirus relief bill, maybe two?
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    The latest strategy from lawmakers? Split coronavirus relief into two separate packages. Plus, retailers are running out of room for all of those returns we’re making this year. And, calls for the Biden administration to cancel at least some student loan debt.

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