Squandering Aimlessly: My Adventures in the American Marketplace
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David Brancaccio
Reporter, Anchor, Storyteller
David Brancaccio specializes in telling stories important to our democracy and our economy through the eyes of the real people who live in the cross-hairs of crucial issues. His accessible yet authoritative approach to investigative reporting and in-depth interviewing earned his work the highest honors in broadcast journalism, including the Peabody, the Columbia-duPont, the Emmy, and the Walter Cronkite awards. As host and senior editor of public television’s NOW on PBS broadcast, David brought his engaging, probing style to beats that included business and finance, the environment, national security, and human rights, and much more.
Read More »Fixing the Future: A NOW on PBS special
De Tocqueville marveled at a 19th century American landscape full of experiments in democracy. It turns out, the 21st century American landscape is dotted with experiments in the economy of the future, if you know where to look. These experiments in bending the economy toward a more sustainable, more widespread prosperity are happening on Main Street, not on Wall Street. But do these projects have the capacity to produce jobs and greater well-being at a time the traditional financial system remains in a perilous state? PBS television, Thursday, November 18, 2010, check local listings for time.
Marketplace on public radio
After the financial system had its near-death experience over the last two years, where is work being done on a Next Generation economy? Seeking an answer to that question has led to a new project. David has returned to American Public Media’s Marketplace program as special correspondent on a beat entitled “Economy 4.0.” Coverage of new Rules of the Road for the financial system. Plus, stories about alternate measures of the economy, the “New Numbers.” How can the economy better serve more people? Whose interests will these changes serve?
Jump to Economy 4.0 Blog at Marketplace.org»
Notebook
The GDP isn’t called gross for nothing
Suppose you found a lantern, gave it a rub, and wished that everyone in the world would act ethically and lawfully, henceforth and in perpetuity. Imagine a world of law-abiding citizens. I would want to live in that world. Yet what a disaster that would be for the economy. If everyone did the right thing, the standard measure of the economy, Gross Domestic Product, would fizzle into the abyss.
Read More »Videos:
Radio
Marketplace
September 11, 2001
David anchored the Marketplace evening program on the day of the attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Wall Street Journal
Featuring David Johnson
An example of the Friday Wall Street Week in Review with David Brancaccio and Dallas stock broker David Johnson.
Dreamworks Special
Excerpt from a Marketplace special report on the creation of the Dreamworks movie studio in Los Angeles.
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Contact
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The Lavin Agency at (800)762.4234 or at info@thelavinagency.com.
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