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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

  • The Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Robert Iger, who we talked with in 2007.
    Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    We look at what Disney brings to the streaming war. Plus, we talk with the the showrunner of “The Chi” and look at the companies disrupting the $7.2 billion bra business.

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  • The road driving into Wise County, Virginia, January 2019.
    Ben Hethcoat/Marketplace

    It’s the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever faced. We go to ground zero, where “nothing changes except for the drug.” Subscribe to The Uncertain Hour wherever you get your podcasts.

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  • A new report shows foreclosure filings nationwide have fallen 7 percent.
    Jeff Turner/Flickr

    In several cities, foreclosures are higher than pre-recession levels. But property values are rising, loan defaults are down and the job market is strong, so what’s going on? Plus, the Midwest’s devastating floods and more.

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  • JPMorgan Chase & Co Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, who reportedly bought about $26 million worth of his bank’s shares.
    Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    The CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. has new things on his mind.

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  • Khal Moro (Joe Naufahu) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) exchange words in Dothraki in "Game of Thrones."
    Macall B. Polay/Courtesy of HBO

    “Game of Thrones” has spared no expense on costumes, sets and even whole languages. Today we talk with the linguist whose job it is to make them. Plus: Why rail travel is so expensive to build in the United States.

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  • Armando La Rosa directs people to the Liberty Tax Service office as the deadline to file taxes looms on April 15, 2016 in Miami, Florida. 
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    We look at how fear, history and marketing have kept Americans from going DIY. Plus: the IMF cut its global economic growth outlook, and would requiring prices in pharma ads make drugs cheaper?

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  • The Google logo is reflected in windows of the company's China head office as the Chinese national flag flies in Beijing in 2010.
    Li Xin/AFP/Getty Images

    We take a look beyond China’s Great Firewall. But first: This is shaping up to be the biggest year for IPOs since the dot-com boom. We look at how investing has changed since then. Plus: Paying taxes in bitcoin?

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  • MC Hammer speaks onstage during a Capitol Music Group event in Los Angeles, California in 2018.
    Rich Polk/Getty Images for Capitol Music Group

    Get out your parachute pants, because MC Hammer begins his first major concert tour since 1991 on Saturday. Plus: Turning chaos into core strength with “Brexercise” and the economics of 3-pointers.

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  • By contrast, two of China's newest bullet trains are ready to depart Shanghai's Hongqiao Railway Station for Beijing. The journey--covering a distance of that between New York City and Chicago--will take less than five hours.
    Rob Schmitz/Marketplace

    Why have bullet trains have been an elusive American goal for more than 50 years? Plus, the latest on the Ethiopian Airlines crash, and the story of an undercover cop whose career was shaped by his county’s drug problems. 

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  • Why the NFL is undefeated
    Warren Little/Getty Images)

    Why does every NFL alternative seems to fail? But first, what you need to know about the recent spike in mortgage and refinancing applications. Plus, China’s professional shoppers who report mislabeled products for a share of the fine.

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