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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Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the world, and rich countries have their fingerprints all over the nation's stunted development. -
Here's what a troubled property developer tells us about the Chinese economy. -
A new book explains why "the age of urban miracles" is far from over. -
California homes are burning. Why are they still increasing in value in regions prone to fire? -
The real estate startup Pacaso has rocketed to a billion-dollar valuation — but its recent fights with communities could foreshadow business troubles ahead. -
A new study helps to explain the dynamics of our bonkers housing market. -
A new book argues that we've seen a fundamental shift in the treatment of pets since 1998. -
A new study finds finance professionals fail at their jobs in a surprising way. There are lessons for all of us. -
We speak with the Nobel Prize-winning founder of behavioral economics about the new — and last — version of his classic book, Nudge. -
When companies don't want to directly raise prices, they often shrink the size of the product while keeping the same price. This tendency to downsize products has come to be known as shrinkflation.
