Jim Zarroli
Jim Zarroli is an NPR correspondent based in New York. He covers economics and business news.
Over the years, he has reported on recessions and booms, crashes and rallies, and a long string of tax dodgers, insider traders, and Ponzi schemers. Most recently, he has focused on trade and the job market. He also worked as part of a team covering President Trump's business interests.
Before moving into his current role, Zarroli served as a New York-based general assignment reporter for NPR News. While in this position, he reported from the United Nations and was also involved in NPR's coverage of Hurricane Katrina, the London transit bombings, and the Fukushima earthquake.
Before joining NPR in 1996, Zarroli worked for the Pittsburgh Press and wrote for various print publications.
He lives in Manhattan, loves to read, and is a devoted (but not at all fast) runner.
Zarroli grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, in a family of six kids and graduated from Pennsylvania State University.
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President Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on China over trade. The administration threatened to raise proposed tariffs on Chinese imports from 10 percent to 25 percent. -
President Trump is eager to tout a fast-growing economy, boosted by the tax cuts he pushed through Congress. That makes Friday's report on gross domestic product a highly anticipated news event. -
The United States still buys a lot of products from China, but overall China is a lot less dependent on trade than it used to be. And Beijing now has leverage over the U.S. that it once lacked. -
A federal criminal court had in January convicted Sinovel of paying an Austria-based employee of American Superconductor Corp. to steal the source code for software that powered wind turbines. -
Amid rising trade tensions with Canada, China and Europe, the president is getting a lot of pushback from business groups and trading partners, who say tariffs will undermine the U.S. economy.
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President Trump, who will attend the plant's groundbreaking Thursday, sees Foxconn as part of a new revival in U.S. manufacturing, but the state had to fork over billions to lure the company. -
Harley-Davidson says new tariffs from the European Union are prompting the company to shift production of motorcycles sold in Europe overseas. The EU tariffs were in response to U.S. tariffs. -
Are banks exploiting a loophole in U.S. rules that allows some derivatives traders to escape federal regulation? "We've seen this movie already," said the report's author, Michael Greenberger. -
This weekend's G-7 summit comes as the U.S. clashes with its biggest trading partners over tariffs. President Trump wants them to make big concessions, but he's encountering a lot of resistance. -
On issues such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and steel and aluminum tariffs, flip-flops and mixed messaging make it hard to discern a coherent U.S. trade policy.
