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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Companies have a powerful incentive to avoid admitting wrongdoing. But some powerful people are pushing back.
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Where do our health care dollars go? Where does the money come from? And how has the picture changed over time?
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Nobody knows exactly how many jobs the economy added (or lost) last month. Here's how to make an educated guess. -
Christie's estimates the chart will sell for $20,000 to $30,000. -
A snake-eating-its-tail thing happens when you think certain thoughts about money and the Federal Reserve. -
Union membership is at a 97-year low. Will private-sector organized labor survive the 21st century? -
As part of a long-running trade dispute, the tiny island nation won the right to use the intellectual property of U.S. firms — without having to pay any royalties or licensing fees.
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A hedge fund manager is betting $1 billion that it is. The company denies it. It's remarkably difficult to tell who is right.
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It's very, very difficult for anyone — from the smallest individual investor to the biggest mutual fund manager — to beat the market. Or, in this case, the cat.
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If you want to know how safe banks are — and how willing they'll be to make loans to ordinary people — pay attention to liquidity rules.
