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Nancy Marshall-Genzer

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Nancy covers Washington, D.C. for Marketplace. However, she has a wide range of interests and has reported on everything from homelessness to government shutdowns and the history of the Fed.

Before joining Marketplace, she worked in the NPR newscast unit as a producer and fill-in editor and newscaster. She also worked at WAMU, the NPR affiliate in Washington.

In 2023, Nancy was honored with a Gracie Award for a story on how pediatricians were coping with the end of the federal government's COVID public health emergency. The story also won a National Headliner Award and a Society of Professional Journalists award.

Episodes by Nancy (46)

Marketplace Minute

A consumer pulse check

May 22, 2024
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A mixed open on Wall Street

May 21, 2024
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Marketplace Morning Report

Red Lobster's woes go beyond just bottomless shrimp

May 20, 2024
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Marketplace Morning Report

The latest in the tense back-and-forth between the U.S. and China

May 20, 2024
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Marketplace Minute

Unemployment claims jump more than expected

May 9, 2024
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Uber underdelivers

May 8, 2024
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A mixed bag from Disney

May 7, 2024
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A Goldilocks jobs report

May 3, 2024
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Stocks open higher

May 2, 2024
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Wall Street opens lower

Mar 15, 2024
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Trying to boost diversity over margaritas at the Fed's Jackson Hole Symposium

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Aug 9, 2023
There's been a push to make the annual gathering more reflective of the country's demographics.
Every August, economists and central bank officials gather for the Jackson Hole Symposium. In recent years, there have been efforts to diversify its attendants.
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Some Republicans are exploring a new position on student loan debt

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jul 31, 2023
The proposal bucks the party's usual laissez-faire approach.
To have your student loan debt discharged by a judge, one must prove it’s causing them “undue hardship."
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Immigrant workforce reaches near record level

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jul 6, 2023
Foreign-born workers are continuing to play a crucial role in a tight job market.
Tisheeka Wallace is assistant manager of Pacci's Trattoria, where immigrants make up one-fifth of the workforce.
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Banks in Turmoil

No more business as usual for the Fed

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jun 29, 2023
Technology that can cause banks to fail overnight could force the Federal Reserve to upgrade its infrastructure, while continuing basic regulation to prevent failures from occurring in the first place.
Silicon Valley Bank's problems wouldn’t have been solved by an instant Fed bailout, said Wharton professor Itamar Drechsler.
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Some prominent Republicans pivot on the economy

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jun 22, 2023
The group of GOP members, including Marco Rubio, announced a new stance on free market capitalism.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the audience the GOP should be more skeptical of the free market — especially when corporations do things like move their factories to China.
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Finding Your Place

Biden plan to end homelessness is missing a crucial ingredient: more money

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
May 30, 2023
Getting an unhoused person into a home can cost $10,000 a year — and more than 580,000 people are unhoused on any given night.
Unhoused people are cleared from a park encampment two blocks from the White House in February.
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Banks in Turmoil

To prevent bank runs, FDIC wants to shore up its coverage of bank accounts

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
May 4, 2023
But it needs Congress's blessing.
The FDIC released a report on Monday with suggestions on how to improve federal backstops on deposits, with an aim to preventing bank customers from withdrawing their money in a panic.
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FHLB: The banking backstop you've never heard of

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Apr 18, 2023
The Federal Home Loan Bank system was created during the Great Depression to boost mortgage lending and absorb shocks for banks under stress.
The Federal Home Loan Bank System came out of the Great Depression in an effort to act as a shock absorber for banks under stress.
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Raising the Debt Ceiling

The last time the U.S. almost defaulted on its loans, the consequences were expensive

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Apr 17, 2023
The phrase "debt ceiling" brings some people right back to 2011, when the U.S. also went down to the wire.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy delivers a speech about the economy and debt ceiling at the New York Stock Exchange on April 17. McCarthy said that “defaulting on our debt is not an option.” But neither McCarthy nor the White House are showing any signs of compromising.
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Banks in Turmoil

Banks are borrowing less from the Federal Reserve

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Apr 14, 2023
That's good news, but banks are still borrowing a lot more from the Fed than they typically do.
New central bank data shows that banks borrowed about $9 billion less from the Fed in the week ending April 12, according to Krishna Guha, vice chair of Evercore ISI.
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