Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein is an NPR correspondent and co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He is the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.
Goldstein's interest in technology and the changing nature of work has led him to stories on UPS, the Luddites and the history of light. His aversion to paying retail has led him to stories on Costco, Spirit Airlines and index funds.
He also contributed to the Planet Money T-shirt and oil projects, and to an episode of This American Life that asked: What is money? Ira Glass called it "the most stoner question" ever posed on the show.
Before coming to NPR, Goldstein was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald, and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine. He has a bachelor's degree in English from Stanford and a master's in journalism from Columbia.
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A three-part series on the history of competition, big business, and antitrust law, one of the most important but least-understood bodies of law in the United States.
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Just because marijuana is now legal in Canada doesn't mean the market for it is easily quantifiable.
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Bill Nordhaus just won the economics Nobel. In this show: He shows how history of light is the history of economic growth — of things getting faster, cheaper, and more efficient.
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A man who got caught insider trading explains everything — what he did, how he did it, and why.
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It's Janet Yellen's last week running the Federal Reserve. A speech she gave last year illuminates an economic mystery — and the boldness she brought to the Fed.
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The state of the American job market, as revealed by jobs numbers released this morning.
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Once a year, teenagers from across the country team up and compete to run the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Why do smart people make dumb decisions? Figuring that out won Richard Thaler a Nobel Prize.
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Behind almost all of the popular music you hear today, there is a hidden, high-tech, economy. The Planet Money podcast has a story about a music producer who helped create this world.