Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 5hI have to sing "we're in the money" on the radio, and to prepare, I watched Ginger Rogers singing it in the old movie "Gold Diggers," and now I have all sorts of questions www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9h... 000
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I currently am using the word "budge" approximately three times in my radio script, and it seems to have stopped being a real word to me 001
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If you are hybrid or fully remote -- what percentage of comms with your colleagues would you say contain emoji? 101
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"There is something that happens to you mentally after a year where you're like, there's no job for me.” Really moving words from Catherine Maddux, in this fantastic story about unemployment from my colleague @samfields.bsky.social www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...marketplace.org“Put me in, coach”: Navigating long-term unemployment in the low-hire economyMore than a quarter of people who are unemployed have now been out of work for at least 27 weeks. Some for much longer. 000
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It should be a crime to require more than one click to unsubscribe from something 010
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I always feel like there should be more than one e in the word "deficit" 000
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026In a move of desperation, I just had one of my kid's Clif Z Bars as an afternoon snack, and woooo-e do I feel the sugar in it. 010
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Sometimes writing a radio script feels like putting puzzle pieces together 000
Reposted by Stephanie HughesMarketplace @marketplace.org · 16/07/2026After five years of confusing policy changes, what’s going on with student loans now?marketplace.orgStudent loan policy changes give borrowers whiplashThe past five years have been called the most chaotic in student loan policy history. 052
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026What is your home page? News? Something fun? I've had MSN as my default since I switched to the Edge browser a while back, and have been trying to figure out what's best. I feel like I want something like .... onenicefactaday.comonenicefactaday.com 011
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026For a story for Marketplace, I'd love to talk to someone who is behind on their student loan payments. I want to know what's hard about paying the debt, what kind of obstacles they've faced. Any chance you know someone? My deadline is Thursday at 5 pm ET. 267-388-1450 / shughes@marketplace.org 022
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Does anyone else ever do something, then write it on their to-do list, and cross it out? It's both to remember I've done it, also for the satisfaction of crossing it out. Just me? 010
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026This is kind of the best: sports.yahoo.com/articles/cul...sports.yahoo.com'This is our culture': Japan fans clean up World Cup stadiumJapan fans left the stands spotless after their World Cup opener against the Netherlands in Texas on Sunday, saying it was "Japanese culture" to tidy up after themselves.Japan are appearing at their e... 000
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Did you guys know that back in the 70s, everyone from aerospace companies to potato brands were trying to figure out how to make energy? I loved talking with historians @ccmmody.bsky.social and Dante LaRiccia about this period of elevated oil prices. 031
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I'm going to be on all three @marketplace.org broadcast shows on Monday. I feel like there should be some sort of name for this, like a treble, or batting for the cycle. 041
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Guys, I was this week-years old when I learned plug-in solar was a thing. I just talked about it with @paulosanalysis.com for @marketplace.org -- it's essentially a solar panel that you can plug into your wall like a toaster, but instead of taking power, it feeds power to your house! 041
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Watching the Google I/O keynote from this week, and so many of their search example questions are about optimizing health and exercise. I wonder what percentage of Google searches are actually about these things. It feels very...Bay Area. 000
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026It's always a nice moment when you've been rolling around in a mud of information and reporting, and then a story actually starts to take shape. 000
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026"There are videos of Waymos stopping at puddles in traffic, and snarling traffic because they wouldn't cross a puddle." @willoremus.com on @marketplace.org Tech Bytes this week, on self-driving cars dealing with new situations Our whole chat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms84... 010
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Doing a short turn piece on Cerebras's IPO, and it seems I can never spell "initial" correctly the first time I type it. 121
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026"If there's one thing I could tell people to do, it would be to use a password manager. Do not reuse old passwords." @racheltobac.bsky.social, on how to protect yourselves from hacks 1195
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026"Buckley got an alert about a “ninja cat.” The video was a big letdown: 'It was just a normal, non-ninja, black cat.'" www.wsj.com/tech/are-tho...wsj.comSecurity Cameras Are Failing Spectacularly at Common SenseAI is allowing home-security cameras to offer detailed descriptions of what they see. The notifications are often spot on. They can also be wildly wrong. 000
Reposted by Stephanie HughesJohn Haltiwanger @jchaltiwangerum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026New BTOS AI Supplement from Census released today. AI use for any business function varies dramatically across sectors and firm size. In AI intensive use sectors, employment-weighted AI use 60-70% -- compared to 32% economy-wide employment weighted. See www.census.gov/library/work...census.govThe Microstructure of AI Diffusion: Evidence from Firms, Business Functions, and Worker TasksUsing new Business Trends and Outlook Survey data, we find AI use prevalent in large firms and knowledge-intensive sectors; augments tasks; labor declines rare. 095
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Sometimes I'll continue to see targeted ads for something I've already bought, and I wish I could tell the internet "look, I already bought that thingy; don't bother me anymore about it." 010
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Learned a new word while talking to Tony Pipa of @brookings.edu -- "peri-urban," which means the edge of a town 000
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Don't put anything in writing you wouldn't want an AI to read: www.forbes.com/sites/annato...forbes.comAI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And EmailsAI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails 011
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026"What do my miraculous sunglasses tell me? Many things. They inform me, in the voice of Princess Anna from “Frozen,” that my dog is a golden retriever mix (he is not) and that a tree I am looking at is probably an oak (it is not)." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/m...nytimes.comI Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses 011
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I wonder why we refer to $1,000 as a grand, but we don't refer to a thousand other things as a grand. I almost just wrote "a grand of people" in a pitch, and then I had to think "Stephanie, that isn't a thing." 131
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Among the things I talked about with @anitar.bsky.social how Amazon's speedy delivery affects how I think about my pant shopping needs. www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...marketplace.orgBytes: Week in Review — Gecko's $71M contract with U.S. Navy, BuzzFeed doubts its business viability, and Amazon offers faster deliveryAnita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” 021
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I know there is a LOT going on, but I just saw a bumper sticker that said "What would Blair Waldorf do?" and I am all about this. 121
Reposted by Stephanie HughesGuy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 03/03/2026My preview of the February jobs report. Unfortunately for "Team Reacceleration", the US policy uncertainty machine isn't done with the labor market yet. macromostly.substack.com/p/bls-jobs-r... 0106
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 03/03/2026My colleague shared this happiness map, and man, at this moment in time, AM I HERE FOR THIS. pudding.cool/2026/02/happ...pudding.coolHappy map100,000 moments of human happiness, mapped 032
Reposted by Stephanie HughesEconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026"But this transaction was always a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price."about.netflix.comNetflix Declines to Raise Offer for Warner Bros. - About Netflix 052
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026What is it with some venture capitalists not having real web pages? For the second time in two days, I found a (real) VC's website that's essentially just a postcard, with no actual content or way to get in touch. 011
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Thee Klondike bars and two bananas seems like the right amount of items for a Monday night tiding over at the corner store 011
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Really enjoyed talking with @mikeisaac.bsky.social about how Meta is using AI to make its ads even MORE targeted. Also, how VR lost ... and AI won at the company. www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...marketplace.orgMeta's big bet on "superintelligence"New York Times reporter Mike Isaac walks us through Meta’s plans and how the company is trying to catch up in the larger AI race. 010
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026How long does it take your fingers to automatically enter a new password? 010
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I was just talking with a friend this weekend about switching between listening to a book and reading it, depending on where you are. Now you could switch between listening to a podcast and ... watching it. variety.com/2026/digital...variety.comApple Podcasts Is Launching New Video Features, Looking to Keep Pace With YouTube and SpotifyApple Podcasts will add integrated video capabilities this spring including the ability to dynamically insert ads into video shows. 120
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Today's public radio is being brought to you by ... granola bars! I just ate three of them while writing this script. 041
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Really fun writing by @amorrow.bsky.social in this piece about Google's 100-year bond: www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/b...cnn.comWhy Google just issued a rare 100-year bond | CNN BusinessWhy Google just issued a rare 100-year bond 010
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I have a crazy cold I caught from the baby, and every time I sneeze, it feels like my right eyeball is vibrating. 010
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026When we use smartphones to respond to surveys, compared to a laptop or tablet, we're more likely to answer incorrectly, or say we don't know. Economist @carlyurban.bsky.social is calling this "the smartphone penalty" in a new working paper. www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...marketplace.orgNew study reveals a "smartphone penalty" that distorts survey resultsProfessor Carly Urban at the University of Montana says respondents who use smartphones in online surveys are more likely to answer questions incorrectly compared to those who answer surveys on comput... 033
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I don’t think I totally realized until this week how not used to dealing with snow Maryland is. 000
Reposted by Stephanie HughesGuy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Thanks to @hughesstephanie.bsky.social at @marketplace.org for chatting with me about the extremely challenging environment for young people who are currently looking for work. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...marketplace.orgTo be young and dreaming of a 9-to-5The low-fire, low-hire job market is making it hard for young people to enter the workforce. 042
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Site of first intense HIIT workout post-baby. Think I might throw up a little. 031
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 20/06/2025In Oklahoma, which has more casinos than any other state but Nevada, high schoolers learn about odds, gambling addiction, and strategies for gambling responsibly as part of their personal finance education. My latest from @marketplace.org www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...marketplace.orgIn Oklahoma, financial literacy courses highlight the risks of gamblingAs more states adopt personal finance education requirements, they are tailoring the classwork to help students navigate their local economies. 031
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This week, I reported on how core goods inflation -- which is goods, taking out food and energy -- could be where we see the effects of tariffs on prices first. But not yet. That measure was up 0% in May from the month before. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...marketplace.orgWhat May inflation numbers might tell us about tariffsKeep your eye on an inflation measure that focuses exclusively on goods except for food and energy. 020
Reposted by Stephanie HughesTim Hanlon @timhanlon.bsky.social · 09/06/2025THANK YOU @hughesstephanie.bsky.social for entertaining our thoughts in today's @marketplace.org piece on the announced splitting of Warner Bros. Discovery into two new publicly traded entities! www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...marketplace.orgWarner Bros. Discovery is the latest media company to announce it's splitting into smaller companiesIts older cable networks will go into one company, its streaming services and movie empire another. 001
Stephanie Hughes @hughesstephanie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Do you guys know about application fees for day cares? They are a THING. Like, some places are in the hundreds of dollars. I now know about this now that I need a day care. 110
Reposted by Stephanie HughesKristine Maloney @kristine-maloney.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Cuts at the Department of Education are already impacting financial aid in big ways. @hughesstephanie.bsky.social of @marketplace.org talked to Robin Thompson in the financial aid office @hmc.edu about what she's seeing and the effects on students and colleges. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...marketplace.orgColleges and students find it harder to get financial aid information after Department of Education cutsAccording to a new survey, nearly a third of colleges have dealt with delays in getting FAFSA information, which is key to providing students with answers about the cost of college attendance. 011