Cardiff Garcia
Cardiff Garcia is a co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money podcast, along with Stacey Vanek Smith. He joined NPR in November 2017.
Previously, Garcia was the U.S. editor of FT Alphaville, the flagship economics and finance blog of the Financial Times, where for seven years he wrote and edited stories about the U.S. economy and financial markets. He was also the founder and host of FT Alphachat, the Financial Times' award-winning business and economics podcast.
As a guest commentator, he has regularly appeared on media outlets such as Marketplace Radio, WNYC, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, the BBC, and others.
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Inflation doesn't strike the whole economy evenly. Some things have been getting much more expensive, while others get cheaper.
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Jackson Palmer started cryptocurrency dogecoin as a joke. To his surprise, it took off. That's partly why he is not optimistic about the future of cryptocurrencies.
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Long-term-care insurance seemed like the next big thing. Then insurance companies started losing billions of dollars. What went wrong?
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Congressional earmarks have a bad reputation. But, our guest argues, they're just what America needs.
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There's a warning sign for the economy with an amazing track record. It's not flashing now, but it's close enough to make us nervous.
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Dogecoin, a bitcoin spinoff created as a joke, is now worth $1.4 billion. The coin's creator tells us how the joke became real — and explains why he has mixed feelings about the whole thing.
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A lot of popular plans for boosting middle-class wages don't work as well as as they used to. Here are a few ideas that might work now.
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Thousands of people are protesting in the streets of Iran. Part of the reason: the price of eggs just went through the roof.
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The U.S. economy is doing great. Here's something to worry about.
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Despite all the protectionist rhetoric, global trade grew really quickly this year. Also: a crazy, 80-year ride from sun god to TMI.