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Meredith Garretson Morbey

Supervisory Senior Producer

Meredith is a supervisory senior producer at Marketplace.

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  • Flood waters covering farmland in the Mississippi Delta means thousands of acres of crops
    Victoria Darden

    Oil demand might go down, so the the prices do, too. The Renault-Fiat Chrysler merger is no more. Farmers’ fields remain unplanted in Mississippi.

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  • Workers at works in FIAT cars factory. (Photo by salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB /LightRocket via Getty Images)

    Seismic change continues in the auto industry. India cuts rates for the third time this year. How do you feel about taxing job-stealing robots? 

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  • A pharmacy technician prepares prescriptions for packaging and shipping after being filled on an automated line at the central pharmacy of Intermountain Heathcare in 2018 in Midvale, Utah.
    George Frey/Getty Images

    Women might struggle more as automation becomes the norm. May’s jobs numbers underperform. The Trump Administration restricts travel to Cuba.

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  • Bernie in the lions’ den
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    Bernie Sanders speaks at the Walmart shareholders meeting. The U.S. ends preferential trade treatment for India. More and more, researchers are seeing links between debt and mental health issues.

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  • Indian workers produce soccer shoes at a manufacturing unit in Jalandhar.  (Photo by SHAMMI MEHRA / AFP//Getty Images)

    Duty-free status ends for some Indian goods exported to the U.S. Easy Jet faces a forced exit from London’s FTSE 100 exchange. A debt showdown looms between Italy and Brussels.

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  • 3rd May 1913:  Grand Marshal Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886 - 1916) leads a parade of 30,000 representives of the various Women's Suffrage associations through New York City.
    Paul Thompson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

    Lawmakers eye possible big tech collusion. Apple takes iTunes off the playlist. We take a history lesson on the suffragist lobby.

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  • Thousands of people take part in a march through central London in 2018 to protest against underfunding and privatisation of the NHS. (Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

    Australia slashes rates for the first time in three years. One of the U.K.’s biggest fund managers suspends trading in his largest fund as investors ask for their money back. Can Britain’s National Health Service open even more to private investment?

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  • In a simulated exercise, third-year orthopedic surgery resident J.P. Wanner practices making repairs to a dislocated hip on Osso VR's virtual reality platform. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is among a dozen institutions test piloting the technology.
    Blake Farmer

    President Trump heads back to the U.K. Why are emerging markets suffering lately? Your next surgery could happen thanks to VR.

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  • A younger, greater work-life balance
    Getty Images

    How to drop $19 billion on a real estate deal. U.S. lawmakers give a Chinese rail company the Huawei treatment. Young people are demanding a greater work-life balance.

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  • A British Airways aircraft taxies on a runway with the Pakistani and Union Jack flags upon landing at the Islamabad International Airport (Photo AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Will President Trump bolster America’s special relationship with Britain in his three-day state visit? Saudi Arabia gets an investment from one of the U.K.’s biggest businesses. How tourism could help revive Pakistan’s economy. 

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