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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Clothes donated to charity in the U.S. often wind up for sale in African markets. Here's the story of one shirt that started out at a bat mitzvah in Michigan and wound up in a market in Nairobi.
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The book lists the tax that importers have to pay on approximately every single thing in the universe — and raises a key question about the Planet Money T-shirt.
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Three economists won the Nobel for their work on the prices of stocks and other assets. Two of the winners have very different views about bubbles. -
The solution, according to the Coase Theorem: Pay them to stop annoying you. Ronald Coase, who came up with that idea, died Monday at the age of 102. -
There are no strings attached. People can spend the money on whatever they want, and they never have to pay it back. -
Amazon spent years trying to avoid charging sales tax. Now, the company supports a bill that would require it. -
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. -
America's still-awful job market, in two charts.
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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. -
A hedge fund manager is betting $1 billion that it is. The company denies it. It's remarkably difficult to tell who is right.
