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Nancy Farghalli

Executive Producer

Nancy is the executive producer of “Marketplace,” a daily radio program hosted by Kai Ryssdal that reaches more than 12.5 million people weekly. She oversees all daily production and content of “Marketplace,” guiding the show’s series, specials and regular programming. Prior to this role, Nancy held several positions at Marketplace, serving as lead pilot producer for podcasts and senior editor of the Wealth & Poverty Desk. In this position, she worked with a reporting team to cover social mobility, wealth disparity and the economics of mobility. She created and produced the award-winning podcast “The Uncertain Hour.” She has led production of live events, such as Marketplace’s 2012 election tour and the 25th anniversary roadshow tour. She also collaborated with the BBC, Slate, The New York Times and ProPublica on investigative and immersive series focused on health care economics, immigration and wage politics. Nancy is on the board of SABEW, the Association for Business Journalists. She played a critical role in special coverage streams — including the last three presidential elections, the Great Recession and news about the Middle East and the Arab Spring. Nancy worked on the Emmy Award-winning series “Big Sky, Big Money,” a PBS “Frontline” documentary about money in politics, produced in partnership with Marketplace.

Latest from Nancy Farghalli

  • Don’t be like Boeing
    Jennifer Buchanan/Pool/AFP

    How can companies preserve the culture of quality manufacturing? Plus, we check in with a customs broker as dockworkers halt their strike.

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  • U.S. exporters are on edge as port strike continues
    Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

    Three days into the port strike, exporters are feeling the heat. Plus, we visit a Detroit frame shop and a U.S. military base in the Marshall Islands.

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  • Biden’s “Great Society”
    AFP via Getty Images

    We compare the mark on the economy made by two presidents: Joe Biden and Lyndon Johnson.

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  • Kai Ryssdal, right, tours Kwajalein Atoll with Army Col. Drew Morgan, garrison commander, and Drew Jostad, Marketplace technical director.
    Hayley Hershman/Marketplace

    We explore an existential threat in the Pacific Ocean.

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  • Automation on the waterfront
    Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Today: What’s behind the longshoremen’s strike and how truckers will take a hit. Also: Swedish candy goes viral.

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  • You gotta start paying back those student loans. No, really.
    Brandon Bell/Getty Images

    Sept. 30 marks the end of an “on ramp” period that gave borrowers a year to figure out their repayment plan. Plus, manufacturing sector bright spots and transit funding cuts.

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  • Disposable income growth chugs along
    Dave Benett/Getty Images for Dublin Store Launch

    Disposable income growth seems to have normalized after a few chaotic years. But it doesn’t mean everything in this economy is all hunky-dory. Plus, Divine Nine political fundraising and EV battery recycling.

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  • Let’s get productive
    Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Surprise! Workers are fueling economic growth. Plus, military aircraft trade oil for electricity, and more women tune in to F1 racing.

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  • Housing market check-in
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    Mortgage rates are falling, but what about high home prices? Plus, why the Fed’s actions matter in other countries.

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  • Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal, left, speaks with Nick Steinke of Air Company at its Bushwick plant in Brooklyn, New York. The company makes sustainable aviation fuel for the Department of Defense.
    Sophia Paliza-Carre/Marketplace

    The military is contributing to climate change – could they help stop it?

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