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Kristin Schwab

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Kristin Schwab is a reporter at Marketplace focusing on the consumer economy. She's based in Brooklyn, New York.

Before Marketplace, Kristin produced narrative and news podcasts for The New York Times, New York Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. She teaches audio journalism at her alma mater, Columbia Journalism School.

Kristin also has a BFA in dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. After performing with ballet and modern companies, she got her start in journalism as an editor at Dance Magazine. Kristin grew up in Minnesota and has been a bit reporting obsessed since watching the '90s PBS show "Ghostwriter" as a kid. Yes, she had one of those necklace pens and a marbled composition notebook.

Episodes by Kristin (32)

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Tupperware, Halloween candy, claw machines — oh my!

Oct 25, 2024
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Women deserve credit

Oct 21, 2024
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The economics of immigration

Sep 5, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1236

Harris throws a bone to the business folks

Sep 5, 2024
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Who's still hiring?

Sep 4, 2024
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The politics of Fed independence

Aug 9, 2024
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This back-to-school season, "value" is at the top of America's shopping list

Aug 8, 2024
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Has the Fed ever met its 2 goals?

Aug 7, 2024
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Why we freak out when the stock market freaks out

Aug 6, 2024
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“Chaotic,” “volatile,” “tumultuous”

Aug 5, 2024
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Latest Stories (552)

COVID-19

Grocers are scrambling to face another pandemic panic

by Kristin Schwab
Sep 28, 2020
And they can't rely on their usual algorithms to decide what to stock up on.
People keep social distance as they line up in front of a supermarket in New York City.
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Elections 2020

Banks weigh in on what the 2020 presidential election might do to the stock market

by Kristin Schwab
Sep 25, 2020
Economists often look to previous elections to model upcoming ones, but 2020 continues to break the mold.
Goldman Sachs economists said in a note Thursday that worries are overblown — that there will be a victor on election night and in turn the markets will stay steady.
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Tesla promised a big announcement on batteries. Now its stock is tumbling.

by David Brancaccio , Kristin Schwab and Alex Schroeder
Sep 23, 2020
The announcement fell short of what investors were expecting.
The manufacturing plan for these new batteries isn’t done and we won’t see them in Teslas for a few years.
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The future of the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court's hands

by Kristin Schwab
Sep 21, 2020
The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was expected to vote to uphold the ACA.
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COVID-19

"Dark stores" fulfill online grocery orders — but for how long?

by Kristin Schwab
Sep 15, 2020
The pandemic led to more people shopping for groceries online. But that trend may not hold.
A Whole Foods Market in Washington, D.C. Whole Foods is one company building a new type of grocery store during the pandemic.
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Verizon is buying prepaid carrier TracFone, lured by resale market

by Kristin Schwab
Sep 14, 2020
Verizon will pay up to $7 billion in cash and stock, angling for a piece of the pre-paid phone plan market, which keeps growing in the pandemic.
Verizon is angling for a piece of the pre-paid phone plan market, which continues to grow during the pandemic.
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LVMH pulls out of Tiffany deal because of tariffs threat

by Kristin Schwab
Sep 9, 2020
But it could also have something to do with how luxury retail is doing during the pandemic.
A customer wearing a face mask walks past shops of luxury brands Tiffany's and Guerin at a mall in Paris. Luxury goods sales are down during the pandemic.
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COVID & Unemployment

Furloughs turning into permanent layoffs as pandemic drags on

by Kristin Schwab
Sep 8, 2020
Job losses are moving past lockdown-hit businesses to other sectors that were doing fine for a while.
Every month a worker is on temporary unemployment, they have about a 10% to 15% chance of transitioning to a permanent separation, according to one labor economist.
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Walmart launching new service to compete with Amazon Prime

by Kristin Schwab
Sep 1, 2020
But customer loyalty and just pure laziness might get in the way.
A Walmart store in Washington, D.C. The retail giant is launching a subscription service that includes unlimited shipping.
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COVID-19

Proposed cuts to New York City subway could make life worse for many

by Kristin Schwab
Aug 31, 2020
Service reductions would hurt essential workers most. The system is seeking a federal funding bailout.
In Manhattan, the subway serves fewer riders than before the pandemic, and the transit authority is suffering financially.
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