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 world now knows how to cut a Vegas strip steak out of a dead cow. Still unclear: Whether researchers will be granted a patent on the steak. -
A broader measure of unemployment shows millions of Americans who are out of work or can't find a full-time job.
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You'd be free to leave the state, as long as you left your money behind. That's essentially what it's like now for people in Cyprus. -
A bailout in Cyprus provides an unsettling, potentially dangerous reminder: The bank doesn't really have your money. -
The U.S. housing market is still a ward of the state. Almost all new mortgages — $1.6 trillion last year alone — are guaranteed by taxpayer dollars.
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America's still-awful job market, in two charts.
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After adjusting for inflation, the Dow is still below its earlier peaks. (Also: The Dow is a pretty random measure of the market.) -
Why do economists see the world so differently than everybody else?
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Marco Arment pays his writers, doesn't sell ads, and turns a decent profit. He walked us through the numbers. -
Tickets to college basketball games will be sold based on a system invented by two econ professors.
