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Jeff Horwich is the interim host of Marketplace Morning Report and a sometime-Marketplace reporter. He is the former host of "In The Loop" from Minnesota Public Radio and a former business and economics correspondent for MPR. He is a graduate of Duke University and has a Master's in applied economics from the University of Minnesota.
Latest Stories (451)
Airbus to build assembly plant in Alabama
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Jeff Horwich
Jul 2, 2012
The European airplane maker plans to build its first U.S. assembly plant in Alabama. Why and what does this mean for rival Boeing?
Why insider traders are big targets for prosecution
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Jeff Horwich
Jul 2, 2012
The brother of Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty on Friday and he's looking at 10 years in prison. But why are there so many insider trading prosecutions, but hardly any other prosecutions of the big fish on Wall Street?
Some parts of U.S. experiencing lifeguard shortage
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Jeff Horwich
and Jeremy Hobson
Jun 29, 2012
From Tulsa to Minneapolis, cities are having a hard time finding enough people to work summer lifeguard jobs.
New EU bailout plan a victory for Italy
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Jeff Horwich
Jun 29, 2012
European leaders have settled on a new way to bail out banks. The structure will allow the EU to prop up troubled banks directly. It's the kind of change Spain, Italy and other struggling eurozone countries were looking for.
OCC to take closer look at JPMorgan's trading models
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Jeff Horwich
Jun 29, 2012
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is flexing its regulatory muscle and wants to review JPMorgan's risk models.
U.S. head of Cigna on the health care decision
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Jeff Horwich
Jun 29, 2012
U.S. health insurance companies put in a tremendous amount of work for a health reform law that could have been vaporized. We speak to Matt Manders, U.S. head of Cigna, one of the country's biggest insurers, on the Supreme Court ruling.
Health economist: Health law still a work in progress
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Jeff Horwich
Jun 28, 2012
Professor Uwe Reinhardt on what needs to happen next and how the health insurance mandate is working out in the state of Massachusetts.
How Europeans view the U.S. health care debate
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Jeff Horwich
Jun 28, 2012
The problems that got us today's health care Supreme Court decision -- rising health care costs, the pull between personal liberty and the social safety net -- are familiar around the world, even if the solutions have been very different.
Nora Ephron's legacy and the state of romantic comedy
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Jeremy Hobson
and Jeff Horwich
Jun 27, 2012
We look at the state of the romantic comedy genre after one of its reigning queens, Nora Ephron, has passed away.
Global political climate helping oil prices drop
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Jeff Horwich
Jun 27, 2012
Oil prices are down about 25 percent in the past few weeks. Those falling oil prices are good for our pocketbooks. They're also good for American foreign policy.