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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We answer questions from our listeners and issue a couple of mea culpas. -
Taxes get a bad reputation, but they were central to the formation of representative government, says financial historian William N. Goetzmann. -
China is piloting a new social credit system, calculated from financial transactions and daily behavior. NPR's The Indicator learns what it's like to be on the country's list of untrustworthy people.
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Horror movies are good business. Scary good. They are more likely to be profitable than any other kind of movie. Today on the show, we look at why. -
We assume that winning the lottery will make us happier. In some ways it does, in others — not so much. -
The deficit normally shrinks when the economy is strengthening, but not now. -
In just six years, robots could achieve parity with humans in the workplace, with machines working the same number of hours as people. -
Warehouse jobs are growing even faster than the rest of the booming labor market. Are they good jobs? -
Short sellers get a bad rap. Sometimes with good reason. But overall, they're an inevitable and useful part of a healthy financial system. -
A storied American retailer has filed for bankruptcy.
