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Meredith Garretson Morbey

Supervisory Senior Producer

Meredith is a supervisory senior producer at Marketplace.

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  • Immigration rights activists take part in a rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 12, 2019.
    MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

    SCOTUS takes up Trump’s plan to end DACA. German investors are optimistic about the global economy. It turns out mortgage banking algorithms also discriminate.

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  • Raftsmen help Guatemalans cross the Suchiate towards Mexico, where they buy goods with higher quality and lower prices.
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    More and more Americans can’t afford their medications. Google moves into the medical data business. U.S. immigration policies hit the Mexico-Guatemala border.

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  • Disney Plus might not have a fairy tale outcome in China
    Tang Yanjun/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images

    The House of Mouse joins the global streaming wars, but what works in America won’t necessarily translate abroad. Racing giant Formula One plans to become carbon neutral by 2030. Singapore tests out a flying taxi.

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  • Jennifer Bailey, vice president of Apple Pay, speaks during an Apple product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on March 25 in Cupertino, California.
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    Apple’s credit card is accused of sexism. Hong Kong is worrying investors. One woman on the opportunity afforded to her by the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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  • Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill after witnesses failed to show up for closed door testimony during the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC on November 4, 2019.
    ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images

    How TV networks might still cash in on ads during impeachment proceedings. Singles Day sales hit $8 billion in 68 seconds. Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years later.

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  • A screen shows the gross merchandise volume, a measure of sales, after 1 minute 36 seconds of Singles Day sales, as it reaches about 1,429,510,821 USD in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province early on November 11, 2019.
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    China’s Alibaba rakes in tens of billions on the world’s biggest online shopping day. Australia’s worst wildfires in a decade head towards Sydney. Africa’s first commercial gene bank launches in Nigeria.

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  • Taking success back to school
    Notre Dame

    A possible U.S.-China trade is driving up interest rates. Spain is holding yet another election. Older people who’ve had success in the real world are heading back to school.

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  • A neon sign welcomes people to Reno, Nevada.
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    Chinese consumers might shun American good on the biggest shopping day of the year, and it’s not Black Friday. Electric trucks take over a former GM plant. How Reno became a tech hub.

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  • Lord Mayor Elect William Russell rides in the State Coach drawn by six shire horses during an early morning dawn rehearsal
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    London’s new Lord Mayor. Huge Brazilian oil fields for sale that almost no one wants to buy. How demonetization is impacting small business in India.

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  • A worker walks in front of pipes which lie stacked at the Nord Stream 2 facility at Mukran on Ruegen Islandon October 19, 2017 in Sassnitz, Germany.
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    There might be a “mini” deal on U.S.-China tariffs. Germany keeps pushing the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. A debrief on Saudi oil giant Aramco’s massive, forthcoming IPO.

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