
Kristin Schwab
Senior Reporter at Marketplace
Senior reporter @marketplace, teaching @columbiajourn | produced @nytimes, @nymag, @wsj | former ballet dancer | Drop Dead Gorgeous was filmed in my hometown
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4 days ago |
marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab
It’s been just over four months since President Donald Trump came into office and started overhauling trade policy, and in that time a lot has happened. Here are the latest bullet points: Just last week, a panel of federal judges ruled that some of Trump’s tariffs are illegal. Then on Friday, the president announced he’d double tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50%. That, of course, will have a real impact on everything from appliance makers to canned food manufacturers to you, the consumer.
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1 week ago |
marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab
Julie Yang and Daniel Thao only live a block away from their neighborhood playground in St. Paul Park, Minnesota, but they drove the minivan to get here because it’s easier with all the kids. They park and the little ones toddle out, Happy Meals in tow. There’s Ostin, Tatum, Isla, Harvey and Asher — five kids, ages one to eight. And soon there will be a sixth, a baby boy due in June. “So we tried for my daughter, to get her a sister.
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1 week ago |
marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab
The unofficial start of summer is here, which means the start of summer travel season. More than 45 million Americans were projected to travel over Memorial Day Weekend, . That’s a record high. Some recent figures show a change in the types of consumers spending on travel this year: Households with incomes of $100,000 or more will make up about half of all travelers, according to recent survey data from Deloitte. That number was 35% in 2023.
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1 week ago |
marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab
This earnings season has been sprinkled with some doom and gloom, with many companies citing worries about tariffs and lowering their expectations for the year. But today, Dick’s Sporting Goods bucked that trend. The retailer is standing by its forecast for the year, despite everything happening with economic policy, joining a small group of retailers that say they’re worried, but not too worried.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab
Pottery Barn recently announced it’s planning on expanding its presence in the UK. It’s one of many retailers that And it seems to be a strategy to offset the cost of tariffs and the potential downshift in spending from American consumers. Brands have been increasingly eyeing markets outside of the U.S. for years. That’s because it’s getting harder to capture the attention of American consumers, said Aaron Cheris at Bain & Company. “The U.S. market is mature and heavily stored,” said Cheris.
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