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Meredith Garretson Morbey

Supervisory Senior Producer

Meredith is a supervisory senior producer at Marketplace.

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  • Iranians inspect the wreckage of a bus that was set ablaze by protesters during a demonstration against a rise in gasoline prices in the central city of Isfahan (Credit: Getty Images).

    Protests erupt across Iran over fuel price rises. Saudi Aramco values its share listing. The popularity of electric cars means searching for power sources… at the bottom of the ocean.

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  • John Legere (R), CEO and President of T-Mobile US, and Marcelo Claure, Executive Chairman of Sprint, testify about the T-Mobile and Sprint merger during a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 13, 2019.
    SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

    The trade deal that never was. Some are calling Colin Kaepernick’s NFL tryout a league publicity stunt. Why is the Sprint-T-Mobile merger taking so long?

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  • With a “Chill” section and selfie studio, this isn’t your mother’s Penney’s
    Image courtesy of JCPenney

    Amazon sues the Pentagon for going with Microsoft’s cloud instead. J.C. Penney entices the youth with new “chill” and “on point” sections. Looking at private equity through an anthropologist’s eyes.

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  • Instagram influencers can still fake it till you make it
    BBC

    The world’s longest passenger flight touches down in Sydney. We look at France a year after the Yellow Vest protests. Making big bucks from Instagram selfies isn’t for everyone.

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  • Is the visa process deterring international students?
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    The Fed might be leaving lower-income Americans out of its inflation equation. Colleges could suffer due to the cumbersome process international students face to obtain visas.

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  • The US flag flies over a container ship unloading it's cargo from Asia, at the Port of Long Beach, California on August 1, 2019.
    MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

    Hong Kong enters a recession. Tariffs are taking a toll at our ports. Why inflation figures aren’t jibing with all this news of low unemployment.

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  • “China is the Wakanda of online payments”
    Photo by Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images

    Germany narrowly avoids recession. China is light years ahead of Google when it comes to online payments. Sweden leads the way on closing the gender pay back.

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  • Flight shame gives way to the night train

    Inflation ticked up in October. Fed Chair Jerome Powell appears before Congress. Flygskam, or “flight shaming,” even has airlines promoting greener travel.

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  • Seventeen-year-old Mya Kelly in her high school American government class at Paul Lawurence Dunbar High School.
    Kimberly Adams/Marketplace

    Are big media companies discriminating against content produced by minorities? Tesla’s first European factory will be in Berlin. The EPA wants scientists to share its confidential data on climate change. The U.S. needs to close its “civics empowerment gap.”

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  • Are the BRICS still relevant?
    Photo by Mikhail KlimentyevTASS via Getty Images

    Tesla picks Berlin for its first European factory. Have Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have met their economic potential over the last decade? Who will use Africa’s first high-speed rail?

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