Mary Childs
Mary Childs (she/her) is a co-host and correspondent for NPR's Planet Money podcast. Before joining the team in 2019, she was a senior reporter at Barron's magazine, where she covered the alternatives industry, the bond market and capitalism. Before that, she worked at the Financial Times and Bloomberg News. She's written about the pioneering of new asset classes like time, billionaire's proposals to solve inequality and diversity and discrimination in the finance industry. Before all that, she was also a Watson Fellow, spending a year traveling the world painting portraits. She graduated from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, with a degree in business journalism and an honors thesis comparing the use and significance of media sting operations in the U.S. and India.
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For decades, U.S. Treasuries have been among the safest investments. But in recent months, trust in U.S. Treasuries has felt shakier.
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For decades, dollars have been the world's common financial language -- the "reserve currency." When financial markets tank, people have rushed toward the dollar for safety. It might be changing.
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Usually when the stock market goes down, the bond market thrives. But the bond market has been struggling.
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Thanks to the U.S. government's tradition of data transparency, there is a way to see exactly what money is going to government programs and agencies. O research group used it to create a widget.
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Singapore's government said that its fertility rate has fallen to a record low. It's one of many industrialized countries trying to encourage its people to have more babies.
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Researchers studied contestants on a Swedish game show and found that retaliation can sometimes have positive outcomes.
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Andrew Lipstein achieves the difficult feat of realistically animating a hedge fund manager who talks and moves as real hedge fund managers might, but who is compelling and not overly alienating. -
The team at Planet Money spoke to a number of leading economists to find out why is it difficult to forecast the job market.
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After last month's collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the Federal Reserve set up a new loan program to help struggling banks. But the program could potentially put taxpayers at risk.
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When banks are under financial stress, where do they turn for help? Many go to the Federal Reserve, which, through its discount window, serves as a "lender of last resort" for banks.
