Jacob Goldstein

Jacob Goldstein appears in the following:

An Insider Trader Caught On Tape Tells All

Thursday, January 07, 2016

A former accountant convicted of insider trading tells his story to our "Planet Money" podcast team: what he did, how he did it and why. Though he's still struggling with that last one.

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Not All Santa Costumes Are Created Equal: A Tariff Dispute Over Red Suits

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Not all Santa costumes are equal under the eyes of the law. U.S. trade regulations draw a line between costumes and clothing. But it's a fuzzy line with real business consequences. Ja...

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Food Banks' Pickle: Getting Food To The Right Place At The Right Time

Friday, November 27, 2015

On any day, a food bank could end up with heaps of pasta sauce, but no pasta. To solve the problem, a network of food banks created a currency of fake money and embraced trade.

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The Strike That Birthed The United Auto Workers

Friday, October 23, 2015

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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The Secret To Club Stores' Success: Breaking The Rules Of Retail

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Take every standard lesson about how to sell stuff to people and then break all the rules. That's the secret to some of the nation's biggest retail chains.

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Planet Money Asks: What Small Thing Would You Do To Improve The World?

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

NPR's Planet Money team asked three smart people: What little thing would they do to change the world?

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How Much Does This Cow Weigh?

Friday, July 17, 2015

We're running an experiment. We're going to use the results in a podcast in a few weeks. The rules are simple: Guess how much this cow weighs.

The cow's name is Penelope.

That's me standing next to her for scale.

Here's your one clue: I weigh 165 pounds. ...

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Greece's Bailout Referendum Boils Down To: Yes Or No

Friday, July 03, 2015

On Sunday, the people of Greece will vote on their country's future. What happens when voters are asked to choose between two options that could send their country down two very different paths?

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Retailer Arbitrage: How Internet Middlemen Are Scaring Traditional Stores

Thursday, June 04, 2015

We have comparison tools just a swipe away, but yet the Internet is still full of middlemen who buy retail and sell it online. NPR follows a middleman and finds out how he can possibly make money.

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When 'Luddites' Attack: Destroying Machines To Save Their Jobs

Monday, May 18, 2015

Today, it's an insult to call someone a Luddite. But that's not fair to the original Luddites — cloth workers who launched a war against the machines that were taking their jobs.

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Where Poor Kids Grow Up Makes A Huge Difference

Monday, May 04, 2015

Poor kids who moved to neighborhoods with less poverty did much better than those who didn't move.

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How Solar Power Has Gotten So Cheap, So Fast

Friday, April 10, 2015

Solar power has long been seen as something that's coming in the future — a promising technology that's just too expensive for widespread use. In the past few years, that has started to change.

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The Fed's Next Move Is A Delicate One

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

One of the Federal Reserve's main jobs is creating money. And the central bank has created a lot of it since the financial crisis — more than $3 trillion. One of the next jobs for the Fed is to make that money disappear.

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Does NCAA Ban On Paying Student Athletes Violate Federal Law?

Friday, March 13, 2015

The top college basketball teams face off next week in the NCAA tournament. And, a panel of judges will hear arguments over whether colleges should be allowed to pay basketball and football players.

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How The Electronic Spreadsheet Revolutionized Business

Friday, February 27, 2015

At the beginning of the personal computer era, a student in Boston dreamed up the first electronic spreadsheet. It was a $99 piece of software that changed whole industries — and created a new worldview.

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How Sunk Cost Fallacy Applies To Love

Friday, February 13, 2015

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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How Corruption Affects The Time It Takes To Do Business

Thursday, February 05, 2015

Hernando de Soto wanted to figure out why his country, Peru, was stuck in poverty. His answer transformed poor countries around the world.

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Poker Players Use Science To Effectively Give To Charities

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

There's a new movement to get professional poker players to give a share of their winnings to charity — but most charities don't make the cut. Our Planet Money team explains why.

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Making Electronics Cheaper Requires Detective Work

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Consumer electronics get cheaper year after year. Our Planet Money team visited a company called Monoprice, where employees spend their days trying to figure out how to make stuff get cheaper.

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Spreadsheets, Ex-Cons And A Karate Studio: Life At The Bottom Of The Debt Business

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Not all debt collectors work at banks or big, corporate agencies. Many work at small, storefront shops. At least one worked in a former karate studio.

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