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Nancy Farghalli

Executive Producer

Nancy is the executive producer of “Marketplace,” a daily radio program hosted by Kai Ryssdal that reaches more than 12.5 million people weekly. She oversees all daily production and content of “Marketplace,” guiding the show’s series, specials and regular programming.

Prior to this role, Nancy held several positions at Marketplace, serving as lead pilot producer for podcasts and senior editor of the Wealth & Poverty Desk. In this position, she worked with a reporting team to cover social mobility, wealth disparity and the economics of mobility. She created and produced the award-winning podcast “The Uncertain Hour.” She has led production of live events, such as Marketplace’s 2012 election tour and the 25th anniversary roadshow tour. She also collaborated with the BBC, Slate, The New York Times and ProPublica on investigative and immersive series focused on health care economics, immigration and wage politics.

Nancy is on the board of SABEW, the Association for Business Journalists. She played a critical role in special coverage streams — including the last three presidential elections, the Great Recession and news about the Middle East and the Arab Spring.

Nancy worked on the Emmy Award-winning series “Big Sky, Big Money,” a PBS “Frontline” documentary about money in politics, produced in partnership with Marketplace.

Latest from Nancy Farghalli

  • An underwhelming June jobs report
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    There’s no widespread layoffs, and the unemployment rate kicked down, but economists expected double the amount of new jobs added. Plus, wage growth, de-extinction, the “lump of labor” fallacy, Saudi Aramco, and a social worker with a tour guide side hustle.

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  • Chicago's quantum leap into the future
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    Jeanne Whalen, economics reporter at The Wall Street Journal, explains why Chicago is betting on quantum computing as the next world-changing tech innovation.

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  • Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh speaks to reporters during his first news conference since taking the helm at the central bank on June 17, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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    With a new Federal Reserve chair, can we expect a “Fed put” to promote stability in financial markets? Plus, teen jobs, home building, prediction markets, rush hour, and cowboy boots.

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  • How Anthropic is tracking AI's impact on the labor market
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    Anthropic’s head of economics Peter McCrory discusses what the company’s latest research can tell us about AI’s effects on the broader job market.

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  • Consumers are feeling better about the economy and where inflation is headed, but worse about job prospects and family finances.
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    New data showed a slight increase in consumer confidence in June, though mixed signals from the economy could mean that’s temporary. Plus, a widening gender wage gap, small business struggles, remote work’s impact on parenting, and natural gas pipelines.

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  • Why Boston Dynamics is deploying robot dogs at the World Cup
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    Boston Dynamics senior director of product for software and quadrupeds, Merry Frayne, discusses how their dog-like Spot robots are being deployed at live stadiums for surveillance and security.

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  • The president's new power over independent agencies
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    The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday expanded presidential power over independent agencies — with the Fed as an exception. Plus, transportation costs, infrastructure projects, Comcast’s spinoff, and L.A. estate sales.

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  • Hospitals pull back on robotic nursing assistants
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    Varshal Bansal, reporter at Proof News, discusses the nursing robot “Moxi” and why hospital networks stopped using them after they were rolled out in 2019.

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  • The AI inflation roller coaster
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    AI is likely to accelerate inflation over the course of the next year, but some economists say it could eventually bring the prices of goods and services down. Plus, we’ll look at garage sales, restaurant matchbooks, and how a union is saving on healthcare.

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  • Why SpaceX stock soared, then stumbled
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    Plus, Meta is reportedly developing its own prediction markets app and Google makes an AI-related investment in independent film studio A24. Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino for this week's "Tech Bytes: Week in Review."

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