host, @MaryinAmerica ex cohost @planetmoney @npr author of THE BOND KING @flatironbooks

Joined June 2010
Mary in America is coming soon. to find out more about my new podcast, i went right to the source:
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this is our halloween episode: ur being watched. they know what you're looking at, where you're hovering, and what you care about, and they're gonna use all that to make u pay. 👻🎃🪦☠️🐈‍⬛👻🎃🪦☠️🐈‍⬛ today on Mary in America: @stephtngu on surveillance pricing 👻🎃🪦☠️🐈‍⬛👻🎃🪦☠️🐈‍⬛
Companies are tracking our online behavior, down to the way we move our cursor across their website. And they’re changing their prices accordingly. Is there anything we can do about it?
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Mining is dirty, dangerous, and difficult. So for decades, America was happy to make money from mining … but not in our backyard.
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Mary Childs retweeted
Personal news: After nearly 8 years at NPR, I’m excited to share that I’m going to Bloomberg to help lead coverage of the prediction market industry. I’ll be joining their mighty crypto and prediction markets team, which has long been doing really impressive work for @business and @BW. I start just after midterms. Kalshi/Polymarket/PM tips or convos: ballyn.77 on Signal
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Electric vehicles have created huge demand for critical minerals. But sales of EVs are down. So what will that mean?
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Dang that’s cool
Thank you @Nasdaq!! 🎉📈
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At a time when Republicans and Democrats can rarely agree, there’s one thing bringing both sides together: critical minerals, obviously.
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“Tax the rich” is a popular battlecry. But if we only think of “the rich” as megayacht-havers like Elon Musk, we’re missing a big chunk of who’s actually rich in this country.
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She is exceptionally talented.
America LOVES small business. Even more than it loves the military, or the Supreme Court. But what actually makes a business “small”? Do we … know?
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Mary Childs retweeted
This is wonderful. @mdc went all in
threw a no-hitter in the @Dodgers game on Sunday. yes, crazy, i agree. what an honor. i took it very seriously!!! thank you to everyone involved -- the great people who let me throw the ball, and the ~50 kind people who helped teach me how
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America LOVES small business. Even more than it loves the military, or the Supreme Court. But what actually makes a business “small”? Do we … know?
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Eric: "Small business is more venerated than the military, than the Supreme Court, than Congress —" Mary [eyebrow raised]: "Well." Eric: "...the media" Mary [eyebrow on the ceiling]: "Well." Nobody doing it like @mdc
Replying to @maryinamerica
Eric Zwick, a professor of finance and economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of “The Everywhere Millionaire” joins @mdc for a new episode of Mary in America. Available now on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts 💫 youtube.com/watch?v=6DNpcQSo…
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The “Wedding of the Century” in 2023 was a multi-day affair complete with a private jet that flew guests to France for parties at Versailles and the Arc de Triomphe. But who were the hosts? Owners of a small empire of car dealerships in Coral Gables, Florida.
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A shift is happening, in South Korea and the U.S.: When it comes to having kids – or even having sex – people are opting out. Author @minjinlee11 thinks about this a lot, and she’s still thinking.
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Bloomberg Weekend is now a pissing contest for who loves bonds the most. First it was @felixsalmon. Up this week: @mdc with her own contribution to the Bloomberg Review of Books bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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extremely delighted to get to chat with Min Jin Lee about her new book, American Hagwon, and also important life lessons, like karma is real ❤️
Great news. Eventually, (apparently) bad things DO happen to bad people. This happens in @minjinlee11's new book, American Hagwon, because it’s what she’s observed in her own life.
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What do central banker meetings mid-financial crisis and Taylor Swift’s wedding have in common? NO LEAKS. Author Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, of @BrownUPoliSci, joins @mdc on a new episode of Mary in America, live now on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts 💫
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Extreme views may get clicks and headlines, but that doesn’t reflect how most people actually feel. @ProfEmilyOster on the ~silent majority,~ and how modern media platforms and systems distort it:
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Central bankers of the most important economies comprise an exclusive club, complete with private dinners and the best wine money can buy. And not everyone’s lucky enough to get an invite. What does it mean if you do? And if you don’t?
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this week's @maryinamerica conversation is with political scientist Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, who researched the friendships btw central bankers and how they can determine "who sinks, who swims" in a crisis indeed these are the strongest bonds of all sorry youtube.com/watch?v=nV1MBp0J…
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