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Maria Hollenhorst

Producer

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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 (442)

On America's northern border, crossing the international boundary is part of doing business

Jul 5, 2018
Author Porter Fox says trade across America's northern border predates the border itself.
Canadian and American flags are seen at the US/Canada border March 1, 2017, in Pittsburg, New Hampshire.
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How road trips changed America

Jul 3, 2018
... and how America changed road trips
Author Richard Ratay gets first chance behind the wheel during a family road trip to Santa’s Village in East Dundee Illinois in 1972. He is joined by his sister, Leslie, and two brothers, Mark (rear seat) and Bruce.
Courtesy of Richard Ratay

It's a new era for Rolling Stone

Jul 2, 2018
Rolling Stone's president says, "in today's environment you have to be more than just a magazine."
Gus Wenner attends 'Rolling Stone Stories From The Edge' World Premiere at Florence Gould Hall on October 30, 2017 in New York City. 
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"Why can't I make ends meet? Why can't I make this math work?"

Jun 28, 2018
In her new book, Alissa Quart examines the lives of middle-class families struggling to get by.
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What North Korea looks like with capitalism "creeping in"

Jun 1, 2018
In 2016, writer Travis Jeppesen became the first American to study at a North Korean university.
Men push their bicycles past portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang in 2017.
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American manufacturers cope with the loss of EU tariff exemptions

Duties seem like a thing between countries, but individual businesses often wind up holding the economic bag.
Rail cars loaded with rolled up steel at ThyssenKrupp Schwelgern steel plant on May 30, 2018, in Duisburg, Germany.
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For scrap brokers, the trade war is not "on hold"

May 21, 2018
One broker says he'll have to do "a lot of juggling" if China won' import U.S. scrap.
Scrap metal to be used in steel production is piled at the Zhong Tian (Zenith) Steel Group Corp. in 2016 in Changzhou, Jiangsu.
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U.S. scrap exports to China just came to a screeching halt

May 11, 2018
One expert says the monthlong suspension could impact an estimated $400 million worth of trade.
A Chinese laborer sorts plastic bottles for recycling in Dong Xiao Kou village on the outskirts of Beijing.
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Abe's friendly relationship with Trump didn't earn tariff exemptions for Japan

May 10, 2018
Tokyo expected treatment equal to that of the European Union, one expert says.
President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walk to their joint press conference at the White House last year.
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The rent is too damn high, according to a new Pew report

Apr 19, 2018
Since 2001, rental price increases have outpaced median household income growth.
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