Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein is an NPR correspondent and co-host of the Planet Money podcast.
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. Goldstein is now at work on a book on the history of money.
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 Federal Reserve targets an inflation rate of 2 percent. Why 2 percent? And how close are we to the target?
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If Greece isn't a good place to do business anymore, then businesses will leave. When solid businesses close up or leave, then Greece becomes even worse for the remaining firms.
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United Auto Workers has ratified a new contract with Fiat-Chrysler. It was settled across a conference table, in a time-frame agreeable to both parties. But, it hasn't always been that way.
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Poor kids who moved to neighborhoods with less poverty did much better than those who didn't move.
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Megan McArdle spent years in a doomed relationship. The reason, she says: She fell victim to a common economic fallacy. Our Planet Money team has a love story with an economic idea at its heart.
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What the fine print in my policy says about how insurance works. -
With the Federal Reserve pumping trillions of dollars into the economy the past several years, why has inflation remained so low?
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A typical UPS truck now has hundreds of sensors on it. That's changing the way UPS drivers work — and it foreshadows changes coming for workers throughout the economy. -
Spirit Airlines is one of America's fastest-growing airlines. It's also among the least popular airlines in America. How can one airline be both things at once? -
The creation of America's central bank includes a bunch of bankers locked in a private library and a secret trip to a place called Jekyll Island.
