Tracey Samuelson

Tracey Samuelson is a former senior reporter for Marketplace. What was your first job? Working in a bread store at the peak of the anti-carb movement. What do you think is the hardest part of your job that no one knows? Cramming all the interesting information I find reporting into a few minutes. In your next life, what would your career be? ER doctor. Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______. Lots of stuff from Amazon. What’s your most memorable Marketplace moment? That time I went to Hawaii ... on assignment.

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Jan 9, 2019
Questions abound as World Bank seeks new leader
The head of the World Bank, Jim Kim, announced his resignation Monday — a surprise given that he’s still got a few years left on his term. So now the search is on to find his replacement. Traditionally, the World Bank’s been led by an American, while the International Monetary Fund has been run by […]
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Jan 2, 2019
Dollar could slide in 2019
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The U.S. dollar had a pretty hot year in 2018: The Wall Street Journal’s Dollar Index put it up 4.3 percent last year against a basket of 16 other currencies. But up in 2018 may mean down in 2019, as many currency analysts predicting a weakening for the dollar in year ahead. Click the audio […]
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Dec 27, 2018
Five things to watch in trade in 2019
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2018 was a busy year for U.S. trade policy and the 2019 outlook looks just as hectic.
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Dec 21, 2018
How falling bond yields are both good and bad for the economy
Thursday saw another big stock market sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 464 points, or 1.9 percent. The Dow is off 10 percent for December, and the Nasdaq is down more than 19 percent since Aug. 29. The bond market has been heading in the opposite direction these last few weeks, as increased investor interest […]
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Dec 20, 2018
Trump says new NAFTA will pay for wall. Not likely.
President Trump seems to have softened his stance on border-wall funding as a make-or-break issue to avoid a government shutdown. Instead, he says Mexico will pay for the wall indirectly through the new NAFTA agreement, now known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). It’s an idea he’s mentioned more than a few times, but so […]
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Dec 15, 2018
China’s growth slowdown is more than what meets the eye
We got some data out of China today that showed slowing growth in retail sales and factory output at three-year lows. Add to that some meh car sales and weak consumer sentiment. In short, economic growth is the world’s second largest economy is continuing to slow. Some of which is predictable, expected even, as the […]
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Dec 14, 2018
U.S. is drafting restrictions for high-tech exports
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The restrictions could impact a variety of new technologies that have national security implications.
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Dec 11, 2018
Rhetoric aside, a global downturn would hit the U.S., too.
Economic growth in the rest of the world will slow next year. And that slowing growth will take a bit of wind out the U.S. economy’s sails. So said Maurice Obstfeld, the outgoing chief economist of the IMF, this past weekend. In other words, despite “America first” rhetoric and increasingly nationalistic economic policies, the United States […]
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Nov 29, 2018
How the U.S. outgrew 1980s trade anxiety over Japan
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The tariff war between the U.S. and China echoes an earlier episode of trade history but with some key differences.
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Nov 22, 2018
How the trade routes of the old world have been repurposed in the cyber age
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The new world of illicit trading involves more nefarious commodities that are central to our planet's existential issues, according to author of "Dark Commerce," Louise Shelley.
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