Northeast Indiana Public Radio

Now Playing

Loading streams...

Podcasts & RSS Feeds

All Content	closeNews podcasts Use iTunes Use a different player	RSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

People

Sean Bueter

News Director, WBOI; Host, Morning Edition & Midday Matters

Sarah Delia

Reporter, WBOI; Host, All Things Considered & Midday Matters

Doug Gruber

Host, All That Jazz

Julia Meek

Host, Folktales, Meet the Music & Midday Matters

Stan Whippo

Host, Matinee and Con Brio

Credit Doby Photography / NPR

Marilyn Geewax is a senior editor, assigning and editing business radio stories. She also serves as the national economics correspondent for the NPR web site, and regularly discusses economic issues on Tell Me More and Talk of the Nation.

Her work contributed to NPR's 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award for hard news for "The Foreclosure Nightmare." Geewax also worked on the foreclosure-crisis coverage that was recognized with a 2009 Heywood Broun Award.

Before to joining NPR in 2008, Geewax served as the national economics correspondent for Cox Newspapers' Washington Bureau. Before that, she worked at Cox's flagship paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, first as a business reporter and then as a columnist and editorial board member. She got her start as a reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal.

Over the years, she has filed business news stories from China, Japan, South Africa and Europe.

Geewax was a 1994-95 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where she studied economics and international relations. She earned a master's degree at Georgetown University, focusing on international economic affairs, and has a bachelor's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University.

Economy

12:04 pm

Wed July 11, 2012

Did The Great Recession Bring Back The 1930s?

Next image Previous image

Credit AP

Thousands of unemployed people wait outside the State Labor Bureau in New York City to register for federal relief jobs in 1933.

Credit Spencer Platt / Getty Images

Job seekers wait to attend a job fair in the Brooklyn borough of New York City in 2010.

By Marilyn Geewax

Originally published on Wed July 11, 2012 2:00 pm

The long economic downturn that began in late 2007 came to be known at the Great Recession –- the worst period since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Even though both events were momentous enough to earn the word "great" as a modifier, they really are not comparable, according to recent research by economist Mark Vaughan, a fellow at the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy at Washington University in St. Louis.

11:47 am

Wed July 11, 2012

U.S. Pig and Cattle Producers Trying To Crush Egg Bill

Credit Matt Cardy / Getty Images

Egg producers and the Humane Society agree on a bill to require larger chicken cages, but the pork and beef industries fear they're next and are fighting it.

By editor

Originally published on Fri July 13, 2012 8:54 am

Remember our reports a few months ago on the odd couple who struck an innovative compromise between egg producers and animal welfare activists? (Here's a hint: The deal calls for egg producers to replace their standard cages with new "enriched" accommodations, complete with perches and nest boxes where chickens can lay their eggs.)

Now Playing

Podcasts & RSS Feeds