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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Free trade may solve problems for businesses transacting across borders, but it can make life painful for their workers. -
Trade makes for peaceful relationships between nations, but gains for consumers and workers aren't spread evenly. -
A new round of U.S. tariffs could hit European wine, cheese, aircraft, and escargots. -
The U.S. is one of the world's largest economies, but it lags when it comes to happiness: the World Happiness Report ranks America number 19. -
Happy Jobs Friday! The economy is still adding jobs, unemployment remains low, and wage growth is fine. It's all good...right? -
A recent paper examines the motivations behind Xi Jinping's corruption crackdown and arrives at a surprising answer.
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The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index is one of the indicators retailers, policy-makers and manufacturers use to gauge the health of the economy. But what is the index, exactly? -
On the one hand, you could say the economy's looking rocky; on the other hand you could argue it's in good health. We lay out both sides. -
A lot of money is pouring into the global diamond industry, but demand for diamonds has been less than lustrous of late. A new player might be changing up the industry – diamonds grown in labs.
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Today, answers to your questions on dry cleaner pricing, and the comparative investment virtues of the housing and stock markets.
