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Tracey Samuelson

Tracey Samuelson is a former senior reporter for Marketplace. What was your first job? Working in a bread store at the peak of the anti-carb movement. What do you think is the hardest part of your job that no one knows? Cramming all the interesting information I find reporting into a few minutes. In your next life, what would your career be? ER doctor. Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______. Lots of stuff from Amazon. What’s your most memorable Marketplace moment? That time I went to Hawaii ... on assignment.

Latest from Tracey Samuelson

  • Mar 28, 2018

    Here’s how the U.S. would decide which Chinese products to hit with tariffs

    This week or next the Trump administration is expected to announce a list of Chinese exports it could slap with tariffs to punish China for what it sees as unfair trade practices. Trade talks between the U.S. and China are ongoing, and markets are certainly hoping that two biggest economies in the world might keep […]

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  • Mar 27, 2018

    U.S. strikes more assertive note in trade relations

    South Korea has become the first nation to be permanently exempted from President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs as part of a newly renegotiated free trade agreement between the two countries announced today. The Trump administration has used the possibility of tariffs as leverage in other trade issues as well, such as renegotiating the […]

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  • Mar 21, 2018

    Why U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum are a big moment for the WTO

    President Donald Trump’s import duties on steel and aluminum take effect Friday. The Europeans have already drawn up their list of retaliatory items. There’s serious talk at the White House of extra tariffs on Chinese products and counterthreats to take the United States to the World Trade Organization. It handles commercial disputes among its 164-member […]

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  • Mar 20, 2018

    Companies and countries seek tariff exemptions

    A beer trade group with members that sell the beverage in aluminum cans. Companies that want to show their products have a role in national security. And foreign trading blocs like the European Union. All these entities are trying to figure out the new rules when it comes to applying for exemptions from tariffs on […]

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  • Mar 12, 2018

    How the Bear Stearns deal looks 10 years later

    Protestors walk out of the lobby of the Bear Stearns headquarters March 26, 2008 in New York. Hundreds of housing activists overwhelmed security and stormed the lobby of the Bear Stearns skyscraper in Manhattan, staging a noisy rally and protesting the government-backed sale and bailout of the investment bank.
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    At first, it seemed like a bargain for JPMorgan. Then the fines rolled in.

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  • Mar 8, 2018

    Trump grants tariff exemptions for Mexico and Canada

    President Donald Trump turns to outgoing National Economic Council Chairman Gary Cohn, center, during a Cabinet meeting at the White House today in Washington, D.C.
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    Imports from all other countries will face a 25 percent tariff for steel and 10 percent for aluminum.

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  • Mar 6, 2018

    Parking tickets are bankrupting Chicago residents

    Parking tickets are bankrupting Chicago residents
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    Why Chicago has more parking ticket debt than other major American cities, and who the system targets.

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  • Mar 5, 2018

    How seriously should the world take this tariff talk?

    Major stock indexes plunged following President Donald Trump's announcement that he was imposing a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum. 
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    The tariffs President Donald Trump has been talking about could ignite a trade war.

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  • Feb 28, 2018

    Investors are hot on student housing

    When you think of commercial real estate, big urban skyscrapers or suburban office parks might come to mind. But college towns and university-adjacent apartment buildings are magnets for U.S. investors and many from abroad. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 

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  • Feb 27, 2018

    The Trump Administration’s options around tariffs and quotas

    The Trump Administration is trying to figure out how to act on a campaign promise to make trade with China more fair. One thing the administration is considering is imposing tariffs or quotas on imports of steel and aluminum. The justification? National security. Here’s a look at the theory behind that connection, and the administration’s […]

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