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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Over the past 50 years, both the way the federal government spends money and what the government spends money on has changed a lot.
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See average hourly wages and how many jobs have been lost (or gained) in health care, manufacturing and other big industries.
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Amazon spent years trying to avoid charging sales tax. Now, the company supports a bill that would require it.
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A brief history of America, as seen through energy sources — from wood to nuclear power, and beyond.
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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.
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America's still-awful job market, in two charts.