Greg Rosalsky
Since 2018, Greg Rosalsky has been a writer and reporter at NPR's Planet Money.
Before joining NPR, he spent more than five years at Freakonomics Radio, where he produced 60 episodes that were downloaded nearly 100 million times. Those included an exposé of the damage filmmaking subsidies have on American visual-effects workers, a deep dive into the successes and failures of Germany's manufacturing model, and a primer on behavioral economics, which he wrote as a satire of traditional economic thought. Among the show's most popular episodes were those he produced about personal finance, including one on why it's a bad idea for people to pick and choose stocks.
Rosalsky has written freelance articles for a number of publications, including The Behavioral Scientist and Pacific Standard. An article he authored about food inequality in New York City was anthologized in Best Food Writing 2017.
Rosalsky began his career in the plains of Iowa working for an underdog presidential candidate named Barack Obama and was a White House researcher during the early years of the Obama Administration.
He earned a master's degree at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, where he studied economics and public policy.
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The economic case for giving away hundreds of billions of dollars.
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As fears of coronavirus spread, so does price gouging for masks, which are in limited supply.
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Researchers tried to help low-income workers sign up for free money with letters and text messages. They failed.
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Despite decades of work, there's been little or no progress on increasing diversity in economics. -
Over the last year, the media has focused on a wealth tax. But there's another type of wealth taxation also on the table, and it might stand a better chance of surviving judicial review. -
It's distortionary. It's regressive. And right now it only benefits a sliver of taxpayers and nonprofits. It's time to talk about the charitable deduction.
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A new study by the International Monetary Fund finds that advanced nations have seen a rise in regional inequality since the 1980s. -
Index Funds offer an intoxicating promise: lower fees, diversified risk and better returns. But is there a dark side to their astonishing rise? -
The story of India's "demonetization" has given economists a one-of-a-kind opportunity to understand the role of money in an economy. -
A national movement to ban plastic bags is gaining steam, but these restrictions may actually hurt the environment more than help it.
