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Stacey Vanek Smith

Reporter, Marketplace

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Stacey Vanek Smith is a former senior reporter for Marketplace.

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What exactly is a market correction?

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Feb 4, 2014
The markets have fallen about 7 percent. So now what?
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange att the end of the trading day on February 3, 2014 in New York City.
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Coffee prices are down, but your latte's still expensive. Here's why.

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Feb 3, 2014
When commodity prices go up, retail prices generally do too. When commodity prices go down, retail prices... seem to stay the same. What's going on?
Cupping is tasting different coffees. At Joe Coffee, Matt Banbury and Ed Kaufmann taste the coffee a couple of times per day. 
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Amazon Prime: an expensive cash cow

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Jan 31, 2014
Amazon is wrestling with its Prime program. The membership club brings in lots of loyal customers, but also costs it lots of money.
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The United States of new shoes

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Jan 30, 2014
The U.S. economy showed some solid growth last quarter -- mostly because American consumers were spending more
Jennifer Lawrence, for example, got new shoes for the premiere of "Hunger Games: Catching Fire."
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Coffee's cheap right now, and you should be worried

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Jan 27, 2014
Coffee prices are near historic lows, but consumers aren't seeing the we're not seeing that's just setting us up for high prices.
In the last 3 years coffee prices have gone from near-historic highs in 2011 to near historic lows today.
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Happy 5th anniversary, bull market?

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Jan 22, 2014
The fifth anniversary of the markets’ bull run will soon be upon us. On the principle “all good things come to an end,” is it time to expect a correction?
The Wall Street bronze Bull looks out to an empty Broadway in Lower Manhattan, N.Y.
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Why it's hard to charge $40 for a pork chop

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Jan 21, 2014
Pork prices have been high, but people still crave bacon.
Maialino executive chef Nick Anderer shows off a popular dish at his restaurant: Crispy Suckling Pig Face.
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Which spies scare you more?

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Jan 17, 2014
The NSA announcement is sucking up a lot of the oxygen today. But what should we be more worried about: the government holding data – or the likes of Target?
A couple of shoppers leave a Target store on a rainy afternoon in Alhambra, California.
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Why the demise of brick and mortar stores may not be such a big deal for the economy

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Jan 16, 2014
It sounds cold-blooded, but with shopping habits changing fast, the demise of the brick and mortar store may not matter much to the economy in the long run.
Customers shop for electronics items during Black Friday at a Best Buy store in San Diego, Calif.
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Neiman Marcus, like Target, reveals credit card hack

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Jan 13, 2014
How do companies decide whether and how to reveal details of data breaches to the public?
Pedestrians walk past a Neiman Marcus store on the Magnificent Mile March 5, 2009 in Chicago, Ill.
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