Meredith Garretson Morbey

Supervisory Senior Producer

Meredith is a supervisory senior producer at Marketplace.

Latest from Meredith Garretson Morbey

Apr 25, 2025
Trump tests limits of executive power over independent agencies
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The Trump administration is focused on testing Humphrey’s Executor, a 90-year-old legal precedent that requires cause for firing independent agency appointees.
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Apr 25, 2025
Trade tensions play out in a U.S.-Canada border town
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In Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canadians feel both betrayed and uncertain about their future trade relationship with the U.S.
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Apr 24, 2025
Quantifying corporations' climate damage
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Scientists say they’ve developed a way to measure how much liability individual corporations have for the economic harm caused by the climate crisis.
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Apr 24, 2025
When IRS info is shared with law enforcement
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The government has opted to give immigration officials access to IRS records — a move that could widen the tax gap.
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Apr 23, 2025
A few "choice phrases" from the president can swing markets
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The stock market is open with wind at its back on news that President Trump says he won’t be firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
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Apr 23, 2025
Tesla's results were not electrifying, to say the least
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Q1 auto sales at Tesla were down 20%, and profits were down a whopping 70%.
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Apr 22, 2025
A lot of people are buying used EVs
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As the market for electric vehicles matures in the United States, sales of used EVs are climbing.
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Apr 22, 2025
Immigrant children and labor exploitation
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Unaccompanied minors who cross the border are uniquely vulnerable to trafficking. Now, legal aid groups that help them are facing funding cuts.
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Apr 21, 2025
Why the dollar is falling
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The U.S. dollar is down more than 1% this morning — a potential sign of investor anxiety over President Donald Trump’s threats to Federal Reserve independence.
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Apr 21, 2025
The skinny on what happens to weight-loss drugs now
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Fewer pharmacies will be making weight-loss drugs. What does that mean for consumers?
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