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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Today on the show: What our three favorite jobs numbers tell us about the state of the economy. -
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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President Trump's new tariff on solar panels kicks in this week. But the story of where that tariff came from goes back to the Obama administration. -
The stock market's drop over the past few days wasn't weird. What was weird was what the market did for all of 2017. -
U.S. exports include airplanes, education and lots of blood. -
Today on the show: citrus, globalization, and the birth of the mafia. -
Long-term-care insurance seemed like the next big thing. Then insurance companies started losing billions of dollars. What went wrong? -
Today's Indicator: Your face. It's worth money. It's the next big thing. And, if you're like most of us, you're giving it away. -
The government shutdown was a symptom of a bigger problem: Congress seems incapable of passing a proper budget. -
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.
