Greg Rosalsky
Since 2018, Greg Rosalsky has been a writer and reporter at NPR's Planet Money.
Before joining NPR, he spent more than five years at Freakonomics Radio, where he produced 60 episodes that were downloaded nearly 100 million times. Those included an exposé of the damage filmmaking subsidies have on American visual-effects workers, a deep dive into the successes and failures of Germany's manufacturing model, and a primer on behavioral economics, which he wrote as a satire of traditional economic thought. Among the show's most popular episodes were those he produced about personal finance, including one on why it's a bad idea for people to pick and choose stocks.
Rosalsky has written freelance articles for a number of publications, including The Behavioral Scientist and Pacific Standard. An article he authored about food inequality in New York City was anthologized in Best Food Writing 2017.
Rosalsky began his career in the plains of Iowa working for an underdog presidential candidate named Barack Obama and was a White House researcher during the early years of the Obama Administration.
He earned a master's degree at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, where he studied economics and public policy.
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Why people are buying their own firetrucks.
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COVID-19 and tariffs are reconfiguring trade. And companies are reevaluating how and where their products get made.
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In-person service jobs, which have been hit hard by the pandemic, are disproportionately done by women. Yet the unemployment rate is only part of the story.
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With governments ordering some public places to close during the pandemic, "speak-easy gyms" are popping up across America — and some have even managed to increase their memberships.
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Viral conspiracy theories are dangerous, and maybe profitable.
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Congress is debating the next relief package, and a sticking point in negotiations is liability reform. Republicans argue that businesses should be protected from pandemic-related lawsuits.
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The debate over liability and the coronavirus.
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Restaurants are getting squeezed. How many will survive? And what should we do about it?
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As America experiences a coin shortage, Planet Money takes a look at the value of the penny.
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A blockbuster new study digs into the economics of the pandemic.