Mary Childs
Mary Childs is an award winning financial journalist and Co-Host for National Public Radio's Planet Money, a podcast known for balancing in-depth analysis of the most pressing financial topics with tenacious clarity. Previously, Childs worked as a senior reporter for Barron’s magazine, where she covered the alternatives industry, the bond market, and capitalism; a correspondent for the Financial Times; and a contributor to Bloomberg News. Throughout her career, she has written about the pioneering of new asset classes like time, billionaire's proposals to solve inequality and diversity and discrimination in the finance industry. She was also a Watson Fellow, spending a year traveling the world painting portraits. Childs is the author of the bestselling book The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All.
Mary Childs Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Host and Correspondent of Planet Money
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Senior Reporter
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U.S. Financial Correspondent
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Reporter
The Planet Money podcast is all about taking the complexities of the economy and making them streamlined.
The place for clear and innovative financial reporting, Planet Money journalists help listeners understand how dramatic economic change impacts their lives.
The podcast features top-notch breakdowns of global economic news, the ins and outs of various economic styles, and even the richness of economic history.
Listeners will get a front-row seat to witty banter and insightful commentary.
JOURNALISM
At Barron's, Childs wrote about the financial markets and their major players, including credit markets shenanigans, diversity and discrimination, and many more.
At the Financial Times, she covered hedge funds, private equity, and art.
She covered the U.S. company bond market, with a focus on derivatives/structured products for Bloomberg News.
RECOGNITION
Childs is a 2023 Arthur F. Burns Fellow and a 2015 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Honoree.
Her award winning work has been chosen as The New Yorker’s “Best Business Reporting” and highlighted on The Daily Show.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Childs has appeared as a commentator for Bloomberg TV, Fox Business, Yahoo TV, Yahoo! Finance and Nikkei TV, as well as consulting for HBO on a finance-related program.
Her writing has appeared in Quartz, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and MarketWatch.