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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

  • Armando La Rosa directs people to the Liberty Tax Service office as the deadline to file taxes looms on April 15, 2016 in Miami, Florida. 
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    We look at how fear, history and marketing have kept Americans from going DIY. Plus: the IMF cut its global economic growth outlook, and would requiring prices in pharma ads make drugs cheaper?

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  • The Google logo is reflected in windows of the company's China head office as the Chinese national flag flies in Beijing in 2010.
    Li Xin/AFP/Getty Images

    We take a look beyond China’s Great Firewall. But first: This is shaping up to be the biggest year for IPOs since the dot-com boom. We look at how investing has changed since then. Plus: Paying taxes in bitcoin?

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  • MC Hammer speaks onstage during a Capitol Music Group event in Los Angeles, California in 2018.
    Rich Polk/Getty Images for Capitol Music Group

    Get out your parachute pants, because MC Hammer begins his first major concert tour since 1991 on Saturday. Plus: Turning chaos into core strength with “Brexercise” and the economics of 3-pointers.

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  • By contrast, two of China's newest bullet trains are ready to depart Shanghai's Hongqiao Railway Station for Beijing. The journey--covering a distance of that between New York City and Chicago--will take less than five hours.
    Rob Schmitz/Marketplace

    Why have bullet trains have been an elusive American goal for more than 50 years? Plus, the latest on the Ethiopian Airlines crash, and the story of an undercover cop whose career was shaped by his county’s drug problems. 

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  • Why the NFL is undefeated
    Warren Little/Getty Images)

    Why does every NFL alternative seems to fail? But first, what you need to know about the recent spike in mortgage and refinancing applications. Plus, China’s professional shoppers who report mislabeled products for a share of the fine.

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  • Volunteers look over the US-Mexico border fence to see how illegal border crossers may jump the fence before going on the nightly patrol. 
    David McNew/Getty Images

    We look at the economic consequences, starting with putting the brakes on the auto industry. Plus, the fight against robocalls and why that tote bag might not be as environmentally friendly as you think.

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  • Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post, which details the procedures he would like the government to use as its regulation standard.
    David Ramos/Getty Images

    CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out the case for regulating his own company, but regulating one tech giant will likely mean regulating others. First we do the numbers on Saudi Aramco, the world’s most profitable company. Plus: what you need to know about a big snack food merger.

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  • Washington DC's Spingarn High School, where Keith Jackson attended before his arrest, November 2018. 
    Jared Soares/Marketplace

    One day, early in the semester, Keith Jackson didn’t show up to class. He’d been arrested for selling crack, but for his classmates, that wasn’t the surprising part.

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  • A pedestrian shelters beneath a Union flag-themed umbrella near Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament in central London on June 25, 2016, following the pro-Brexit result of the U.K.'s EU referendum vote.
    JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images

    Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been voted down a third time. On today’s special broadcast from London, Kai Ryssdal talks with business owners and regular folks about how they’re getting by amid all this uncertainty.

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  • Protesters gather to demonstrate against the EU referendum result in Trafalgar Square on June 28, 2016 in London, England. Up to 50,000 people were expected before the event was cancelled due to safety concerns. Early evening up to 300 people have still converged on the square to vent their anti-Brexit feelings. 
    Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

    It’s our second day of special Brexit coverage in London, and today we’re talking with entrepreneurs and American expats just trying to get by.

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