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Maria Hollenhorst

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Maria Hollenhorst is based in Los Angeles, California.

She produces content for Marketplace’s flagship broadcast including host interviews, economic explainers, and personal stories for the “Adventures in Housing” and “My Economy” series. Her work has been recognized by the Association for Business Journalists Best in Business Awards.

When not making radio, she can be found hiking, skiing, jogging, roller-blading, or exploring this beautiful world. Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, she wound her way into journalism after graduating from the University of Utah. She has a deep appreciation for trees.

Latest Stories (406)

“Low Earth orbit is now open for business”

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Nov 29, 2023
This is how Varda Space Industries hopes to commercialize manufacturing in space.
Will Bruey, CEO and co-founder of Varda Space Industries and Wendy Shimata, VP of Autonomous Systems observe Varda’s spacecraft as it orbits Earth.
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How Kickstarter became a marketing tool for board games

by Maria Hollenhorst
Nov 23, 2023
Crowdfunding helps publishers generate buzz for new games, driving sales of deluxe copies.
Board game enthusiasts play Critter Kitchen, one of a growing number of strategy games that have raised more than $1 million on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.
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Shelf Life

Are we still living in Milton Friedman’s economy?

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Nov 15, 2023
A conversation about the life and legacy of economist Milton Friedman with historian Jennifer Burns.
Milton Friedman, one of the most famous economists of the 20th century, died in 2006. But his ideas remain a presence in economics today.
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My Economy

How this California business puts animals to work preventing wildfires

by Maria Hollenhorst
Oct 25, 2023
Shepherdess Land & Livestock offers prescribed grazing services with sheep and goats.
“We use our animals in a very special, targeted type of manner, very different to traditional ranching with grazing animals,” says Cole Bush, owner and operator of Shepherdess Land & Livestock in California’s Ojai Valley.
Paul Mirah Collins
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Inside Smallhold's specialty mushroom supply chain

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Oct 10, 2023
The Brooklyn-based startup is hoping to alter the future of fungi through a network of urban farms.
Smallhold hopes to build a network of mushroom farms across the U.S. Above, yellow oyster mushrooms grow in Smallhold’s Vernon, California, farm.
Sofia Terenzio/Marketplace
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When will prices go back down?

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Oct 6, 2023
The answer might disappoint you.
Inflation is slowing, but when will prices go back down? Above: Shoppers walk through a grocery store in Washington, DC.
Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
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The monumental task of measuring the GDP over and over again

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Sep 28, 2023
The keepers of GDP continually update their calculations as more information becomes available.
Measuring the economy requires continually revising data as more data becomes available.
Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images
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The big business of wacky holidays

by Maria Hollenhorst
Sep 4, 2023
Holidays, even made-up ones, can be powerful marketing tools.
Volkswagen's Cameron Batten and Marlo Anderson, the founder of National Day Calendar, onstage at a reveal of National Volkswagen Bus Day on June 02, 2023 in Huntington Beach, California.
Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Volkswagen of America
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How Labor Day has changed — and not changed — in its 140-year history

by Maria Hollenhorst
Sep 4, 2023
The first Labor Day parade took place in 1882. Historian Allyson Brantley says there are notable parallels between that moment and today.
A member of the sheet metal workers union walks in a 2022 Labor Day parade in Wilmington, California. Parades have been a mainstay of Labor Day celebrations since the 1880s.
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When it comes to measuring economic welfare, GDP doesn't cut it

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Sep 1, 2023
Gross domestic product has been the standard measure for economic growth since 1944, but it doesn't measure the quality of life.
GDP has been a global standard for measuring economic growth since 1944, but it doesn't measure economic welfare.  
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