Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein is an NPR correspondent and co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He is the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.
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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Eugene Gagliardi also invented KFC's popcorn chicken. And he's got some ideas about drumsticks.
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"When prices go up, they notice it. When prices go down, they don't care."
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There's a huge gap between the actual jobs number and the number everybody reports.
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Unemployment falls a little, then it stalls. It goes down a little more, then it stalls again. The Fed could announce new measures to bring down unemployment as soon as today.
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If the euro is to survive, the eurozone needs to be more like one country, and less like a bunch of different countries that happen to sit on the same continent.
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Licensing rules are supposed to protect the public. But they also raise prices and make it harder for people to find work.
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Nearly four years after the financial crisis — and two years after a major new law was passed — key details remain unresolved.
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JPMorgan's "many errors, sloppiness and bad judgment" will hurt the bank's reputation and bolster support for rules limiting banks' ability to make speculative bets.
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At the High School Fed Challenge, students compete to see who does the best impression of a central banker.
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Colleges use money to woo top students. It's an effective tactic, but it drives up tuition for everyone else.
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How much did people in your income bracket pay in taxes? And what was the government's total tax take, from all sources?
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China's foreign-exchange reserves are worth over $3 trillion. That's a problem for China, and for the U.S.