Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein is an NPR correspondent and co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He is the author of the book .
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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The birthday song — Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, etc. — is still under copyright protection. That may soon change.
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What ticket sales tell us about what's driving the gap between the 1 percent and everybody else.
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Taxi drivers and their predecessors have been fighting threatening technology for 500 years. -
Hospital prices just got a lot more transparent. But if you have private insurance, the new information won't help you. -
Earlier this year, the percentage of Americans who are working or looking for work fell to its lowest level since 1979.
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What if the Web had been patented?
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Amazon spent years trying to avoid charging sales tax. Now, the company supports a bill that would require it. -
The share of $100s held outside the U.S. has been rising for decades. That's good news for the U.S. economy. -
Even if gold loses half its value tomorrow, the gold bubble won't be over. -
A brief history of America, as seen through energy sources — from wood to nuclear power, and beyond.
