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Tony Wagner

Newsletter Editor

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Tony Wagner is Marketplace's newsletter editor. He writes the daily email newsletter and edits several others, including Marketplace's Crash Courses.

Previously he was a digital producer who helped launch “Make Me Smart,” “The Uncertain Hour” and “This Is Uncomfortable.” After eight years at Marketplace headquarters in LA, he recently relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Latest Stories (428)

The Uncertain Hour

Counting pages of regulations is a waste of time (and paper)

by Tony Wagner
Jan 19, 2018
Politicians on both sides of the aisle will use page counts to demonstrate regulatory burden. It's not an exact science.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell points to a stack of papers representing what he said are the regulations associated with former President Barack Obama's health care reform as he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in 2013.
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"Star Wars" economics: What it takes to turn a planet into an insane superweapon

by Tony Wagner
Dec 15, 2017
Let's do the numbers on Starkiller Base.
Starkiller Base, in all its sun-extinguishing, planet-destroying glory.
Disney/Lucasfilm
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The Uncertain Hour

A drugmaker used “The Wizard of Oz” to sell OxyContin

by Tony Wagner
Dec 15, 2017
In an internal sales document, Purdue told sales reps to “follow the yellow brick road” and get doctors to prescribe the opioid.
Publicity photo from the 1939 adaptation for "The Wizard of Oz," which inspired a pharmaceutical sales document.
CBS via Wikimedia Commons
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The Uncertain Hour

You can write the government, but who's listening?

by Tony Wagner
Nov 22, 2017
Bureaucrats are always looking for your comments on new rules. Here's how it works.
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, Chairman Tom Wheeler, Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and Commissioner Michael O'Rielly watch as protesters are removed from the dais during a hearing at the Federal Communication Commission on Dec. 11, 2014. in Washington, D.C.
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The average cost of a Thanksgiving dinner is less than you think

by Tony Wagner
Nov 21, 2017
And it's at a five-year low.
How much does that Thanksgiving feast cost?
John Moore/Getty Images
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The Uncertain Hour

Everything you didn't know you didn't know about peanut butter

by Tony Wagner
Nov 17, 2017
Is that jar of brown mush in your cupboard natural? Do you have to stir it? Ever wondered why?
Jars of Skippy peanut butter.
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Want a more diverse and younger theater audience? There's an app for that

by Jana Kasperkevic and Tony Wagner
Nov 3, 2017
Broadway looks to tech to lure millennials.
Katie Szajkovics and Christoper Huey, two of TodayTix concierges, stand outside the theater and distribute tickets to customers. 
Jana Kasperkevic for Marketplace
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The Uncertain Hour

How wood got in our food, then out of it, then back into it again

by Tony Wagner
Nov 1, 2017
A look at how the government determines what ingredients are allowed in bread, and how that has changed over time.
Two members of the Women's Timber Corps do their bit for the war effort by carrying a felled log through the lumber camp at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 1942.
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The Uncertain Hour

Here's what you don't know about regulations

by Tony Wagner
Oct 25, 2017
Mainly, that they're everywhere.
Ben Hethcoat and Jessica Sun/Marketplace
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Make Me Smart With Kai and Molly

What you need to know about the sequester and Trump

by Tony Wagner
Sep 29, 2017
Answering the unanswered questions from our Explainathon.
The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building on October 22, 2009 in Washington, DC. 
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