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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The justification used by the Trump administration for its steel and aluminum tariffs is riskier for the global trading system than the tariffs themselves. -
Team Indicator takes your questions, concerns, and James Bond-related car trivia. -
Creative destruction is a fact of economic life that few products can resist. Graphing calculators are a notable exception -
Why has the share of women in the labor force been stagnant for almost two decades? -
Inflation doesn't strike the whole economy evenly. Some things have been getting much more expensive, while others get cheaper.
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In the red corner: the uncontested retail champion of the world: WalMart. In the blue corner, the behemoth of online sales: Amazon. -
What happens when a classical economist finds out the world is much more complicated than he thought? -
Cobalt used to be a sideshow on the periodic table. Now it's the main event. -
The average American car is now more expensive than it's ever been. And guess what? Sales of new cars are falling. -
Over the past two decades, prices on average have increased. But certain things have gotten cheaper while others have gotten more expensive, and which is which can tell us a lot.
