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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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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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. -
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.
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The Federal Reserve meets regularly and sets a target interest rate to keep inflation low and jobs high. But what if an equation could do all the work — and even do a better job?
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Investors and companies are swooping in to buy mobile home parks. They raise fees and rents, and evict people who can't pay — using billions of dollars' worth of low interest, government-backed loans. -
Recommendations we get from websites about what to buy are often powered by an algorithm known as collaborative filtering. We trace this technology back to one person trying to declutter his inbox.
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What happens when millions of Americans don't pay the rent? Landlords don't get paid, and they pass on the debt to someone else. NPR's Planet Money follows the chain of non-payment all the way.
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President Trump pardoned financier Michael Milken Tuesday. Decades ago, he changed Wall Street when he created the junk bond market. Then he got arrested and turned to philanthropy.
