Stacey Vanek Smith
@svaneksmith
New Yorker, Idahoan, Story-Seeker, Radio-Maker @Bloomberg @Marketplace formerly @NPR @TheIndicator @PlanetMoney Author ‘Machiavelli for Women’
It’s here! After three years of research, Interviews and typing away, I got an early copy hot 🔥🔥🔥off the presses. Strange and so exciting!!! to actually see it and hold it. A huge thank you to all the amazing women who shared their work, research and stories with me.
Harvard announcement: "Gita Gopinath returns to economics faculty after historic IMF leadership" news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…
Alaskan backcountry, thawing permafrost, a landscape and culture in transition. @BenWeissenbach 's beautiful book, North to the Future, has it all. I'll be talking with him about it on Thursday at @POWERHOUSEArena in Brooklyn. Come and join us! powerhousearena.com/events/book-la…
L to R, Iowa Public Radio’s Madeleine King, Minnesota Public Radio’s Hanna Yang, and a couple of us from NPR. Member stations are the heart of the public radio network.
President Trump has been talking a lot about firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Why? And why does it matter? #economy #federalreserve #jeromepowell #trumpeconomy My latest for @BW @business
New @nytimes op-ed by former Fed chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opi…
Venezuelan economist Gabriela Saade once gave me a purse woven from bolivars (40,000 worth). The price: $3 It was an unforgettable symbol of hyper-inflation and I think of it whenever challenges to Jerome Powell and Federal Reserve Independence come up. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
SCOOP: We have figured it out!!! @SoumayaKeynes and I are getting the Trade Talks team back together - not to podcast, but to write a book explaining HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR Look for it at your local bookstore in April 2026, or pre-order it from here a.co/d/d4qPo3p
My first memories of public radio were listening with my parents at our ranch in Idaho. I never could have imagined I’d be lucky enough to be a part of it. The #NPR defunding hits home. I loved this convo w/ @jmsummers and @BoiseState radio’s @Tom2Michael npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-…
This week, Donald Trump's fight with Jerome Powell continued, with a White House official first telling Bloomberg News that the president was preparing to fire the Federal Reserve chairman, and then Trump quickly taking the threat back. Executive director of The Budget Lab at…
This week, Donald Trump's fight with Jerome Powell continued, with a White House official first telling Bloomberg News that the president was preparing to fire the Federal Reserve chairman, and then Trump quickly taking the threat back. Executive director of The Budget Lab at…
As for what’s next — I’m joining the BBC to launch a new daily news podcast! It’s a show I deeply believe ought to exist in our world in this time — news + narrative + global issues. variety.com/2025/digital/n… We launch September 3 - Tune in!
New episode! Powell v Trump, Travel v Staycation, witches v natural science. Featuring @amandamull @marthagimbel @svaneksmith SUBSCRIBE!! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Powell vs. Trump: what’s the beef? So much fun talking with @janecoaston on the What A Day podcast from @CrookedMedia Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tru…
The Federal Reserve's latest "Beige Book," a roundup of economic conditions, uses the word "tariff" 75 times.
Was such a joy talking tariffs with @sarahmccammon today on @MorningEdition My take: Effects will be felt on everything everywhere... but not all at once npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-…
My candidate for the most worrying economic chart in the world right now: the proportion of CPI data that's now being calculated (ie estimated) by different cell imputation (ie proxy). We've gone from 10% to 35% in just a few months Wrote about it here: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
The BLS's issues with CPI data collection appear to be getting worse. The share of uncollected items subject to "different cell" imputation (meaning they're based on different items or items from different geographies) hit another record last month. (Data goes back to 2019.)
So happy to be in Portland with @OPB tonight to share some clips from our new film on The American Revolution. Getting ready.