Reporter, Marketplace
Stacey Vanek Smith is a former senior reporter for Marketplace.
Consumers piqued by card and account fees at big national banks are switching to credit unions and community banks ahead of Bank Transfer Day.
As Occupy Wall Street protests bemoan executive pay, Nabors Industries' chairman gives up CEO role and gets $100 million severance-like payment.
Time Warner Cable has been shedding tens of thousands of subscribers every month. Are tight household budgets putting the squeeze on cable?
The online coupon company hopes to raise some $500 million when it goes public, but doubts have emerged about its accounting and growth prospects.
The video-rental pioneer has taken a hit after raising prices in July, but its shift to Internet streaming is the future of TV viewing.
The secret to the state's success in a down economy.
Zuccotti Park is one of many privately owned public spaces in New York. Unlike city-owned parks, it's open around the clock.
From unemployed college grads to homemakers, reporter Stacey Vanek Smith talks to the people who are protesting in Zuccotti Park.
There's no economic crisis in North Dakota. Oil in the hundreds of billions of barrels fuels an economy that others states could envy.
Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims studied an issue central to our dilemma today: How government policies actually affect the real economy.
