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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See how much Americans owe, what they're borrowing money to pay for, and how much of each paycheck goes to pay off debt.
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A program that backed lots of mortgages during the housing bust may soon need taxpayer money to make good on its promises.
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A program that backed lots of mortgages during the housing bust may soon need taxpayer money to make good on its promises.
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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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See two graphs that show how we spend our money today, and how our spending patterns have changed since 1949.
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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. -
By one measure, stocks are valued very close to their 50-year average. This doesn't make it easier to predict what the market will do, but it does help to see beyond the day-to-day craziness in the market.
