Marketplace®

Daily business news and economic stories

Stacey Vanek Smith

Reporter, Marketplace

Stacey Vanek Smith is a former senior reporter for Marketplace.

Latest from Stacey Vanek Smith

  • Nov 18, 2011

    OWS as meme

    Demonstrators with the Occupy movement are seen reflected in a sign November 2, 2011 in Oakland, Calif.
    Eric Thayer/Getty Images

    Occupy Wall Street references have seeped into daily lingo and situations that have nothing to do with money, movements or Wall Street.

    Read More
  • Occupy Wall Street protesters gather outside the New York Stock Exchange.
    Stacey Vanek Smith

    Recently evicted, the Occupy Wall Street movement hopes to keep its momentum going even after leaving Zuccotti Park.

    Read More
  • Mario Draghi, new president of the European Central Bank (ECB), speaks to the media following the first meeting of the ECB Governing Council with Draghi at the helm on Nov. 3, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
    Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images

    The U.S. central bank, known as the Federal Reserve, is the lender of last resort. Its bond-buying orgy bailed out banks during the financial crisis and rescued the economy. But its European equivalent has neither the ability not the will to do the same for the eurozone.

    Read More
  • Zuccotti Park after it was cleared by police this morning and cleaned up.
    Stacey Vanek Smith

    In the early hours of the morning, New York City police evacuated Occupy protests from their home in Zuccotti Park, but they say that won't stop them from going on.

    Read More
  • A cop stands by as protesters are evacuated in New York.
    Stacey Vanek Smith

    Occupy Wall Street set up its protest near New York's financial district on September 17. Estimates have been that 200 people have been living there. Now, New York police have raided the park and report they have arrested 70 people.

    Read More
  • Occupy Wall Street activists march in downtown Manhattan after police removed the protesters early in the morning from Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011 in New York City.
    Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

    Occupy Wall Street protesters ask a judge to overrule New York's ban on tents in Zuccotti Park.

    Read More
  • Zuccotti Park after the cleaning.
    Stacey Vanek Smith

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Occupy Wall Street can return to Zuccotti Park today — but without tents. The demonstrators want a judge to rule that's illegal.

    Read More
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to speak to delegates on the first day of the 24th CDU Party Congress in Leipzig, Germany.
    Sean Gallup/Getty Images

    Economist Julia Coronado discusses the difficult situation Europe is in right now and what German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to happen.

    Read More
  • An interior view of Athens stock exchange on April 28, 2010.
    LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images

    After the subprime mortgage crisis, investors fled to "safe" government debt. The eurozone crisis shows how toxic those bonds have become.

    Read More
  • This photo taken March 11, 2005, shows a 'QR Code' being displayed in a camera-equipped mobile phone in Tokyo. QR Code allows users to enter text information such as name and address on a name card, Internet URL or e-mail address, into mobile phones easily and quickly.
    TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images

    Stores like Sears and Wal-Mart are debuting walls where shoppers can scan QR codes and make purchases with their phones.

    Read More