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Peter Balonon-Rosen

Producer

Peter produced the narrative podcasts “The Uncertain Hour” and “This Is Uncomfortable.” He also reported radio features for Marketplace’s radio programs, wrote for our website and served as an in-studio and field photographer. What was your first job? Dishwasher What do you think is the hardest part of your job that no one knows? Video conferences. In your next life, what would your career be? Foley artist. Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______. Snacks for the snack desk. What’s your most memorable Marketplace moment? Seeking out tornadoes with storm chasers for half a week to report a story about the business of storm chasing. Watching severe storms develop over the prairies of Nebraska was breathtaking.

Latest from Peter Balonon-Rosen

  • On May 5, “This is Uncomfortable” is back!

    Listen to the trailer now, and follow the show on your podcast favorite app.

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  • A scene from the Mariachi rent strike in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights
    Courtesy Union de Vecinos

    For the last episode of our season, we take you through months of court battles, protests and tense negotiations in a Los Angeles rent strike.

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  • Dec 9, 2021

    Chasing hippos

    Gina Serna and her family on a childhood trip to Hacienda Napoles.
    Courtesy: Gina Serna

    Gina Serna dreamed of being a wildlife veterinarian since she was little, but her biggest assignment has painful ties to her childhood.

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  • Felicia and Dalip Singh
    Courtesy Felicia Singh Campaign for City Council

    Dalip Singh thought driving a taxi would be his ticket to the middle class. Instead, he discovered that he’d bought into a massive lending scam.

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  • Hayli McKnight and her dad, Rick Carroll, when McKnight was a toddler.
    Courtesy: Hayli McKnight

    When you’re a kid, your parents make all the financial decisions for you. But what happens when you grow up … and don’t agree with their choices?

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  • Daranda Hinkey holds some pieces of clay containing lithium, or “white gold,” that could be key to a decarbonized future.
    Molly Wood/Marketplace

    To get off fossil fuels, you need a lot of batteries. To get a lot of batteries, you need to mine a lot of lithium. Welcome to Thacker Pass, Nevada, where a proposed lithium mine has sparked protests.

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  • Nov 11, 2021

    Alimony till death

    Sonia Delgado at her wedding, as a teenager.
    Courtesy: Sonia Delgado

    When Sonia Delgado divorced her husband after 30 years of a bad marriage, she thought she’d finally seized financial freedom. Instead, she faced a lifetime of alimony.

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  • Nov 4, 2021

    Family secrets

    The Chow family, circa 2003.
    Courtesy Serena Chow

    Matthew Chow spent his adult life trying to build a close relationship with his estranged father. In his father’s will, he found a decades-old family secret.

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  • Piles of cash hidden in a drawer.
    Getty Images

    What happens when you stumble on something with the potential to change your life? First, Oscar almost had a panic attack. Later, regret consumed them.

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  • Oct 21, 2021

    Just trust me

    Ibby Hanlon and her husband Chris.
    Courtesy: Ibby Hanlon

    After a series of unexpected events change one woman’s body — and finances — forever, she questions her faith in the medical system.

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