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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In a small town in New Jersey, there is a deli. Just a little sandwich shop. But according to the stock market, this one deli is worth roughly $100 million. What's going on?
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It feels like cash has disappeared. But there's more paper money out there than ever. That might be a problem.
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The biggest venture capital fund in history was a key backer of WeWork and Uber — and it transformed the way startups work.
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There's a new way to pay for college. It's not debt — but students are on the hook after they graduate.
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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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The state of the American job market, as revealed by jobs numbers released this morning.
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We visit the workshop of the meat inventor who came up with Steak-Umm and KFC's popcorn chicken. And we try to figure out what meat inventors tell us about patents and innovation.
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We run through the entire federal budget — in 10 minutes. More than $6 billion per second. Go.
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In Washington, D.C., there is a place where millions of dollars in ripped, burned, and water-soaked dollar bills are made new. On today's show, we get inside that room.
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The Federal Reserve targets an inflation rate of 2 percent. Why 2 percent? And how close are we to the target?