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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A blockbuster new study digs into the economics of the pandemic.
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Despite political and social progress, African Americans still lag far behind economically.
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The problem goes deeper than police misconduct.
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Among the bottom fifth of income earners, who are more likely to be black and Latino, about 35% of them lost their jobs.
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As small businesses scramble for emergency assistance, big businesses get a new program of virtually endless lending from the Fed.
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As COVID-19 causes a global meltdown, the world turns to the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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As venture capital retreats, hot startups are collapsing.
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Instead of mass layoffs, Germany tries to safeguard employment. Under a program called Kurzarbeit, when companies declare they're under financial distress, the government helps pay their workers.
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The economic case for giving away hundreds of billions of dollars.
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What if we renamed "sick leave" a "containment stipend"?