Wildcard: Money with Jacob Goldstein of NPR’s Planet Money
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What is money? Where does it come from? And how did it end up the way it is today? NPR’s Jacob Goldstein joins Jason Hall and Nick Sciple this week to discuss his work on the Planet Money podcast and his new book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. Topics include: how Planet Money selects and develops podcast topics, where money comes from, bitcoin, the future of money, and more!
Securities Mentioned: Bitcoin
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
| 0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. Wild Card Wednesday. |
| 0:20.4 | And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey everybody, Nick Saipel here. |
| 0:29.0 | I got a really exciting show for you this week. |
| 0:31.0 | Jason Hall and I sat down with Jacob Goldstein from the |
| 0:35.5 | Planet Money Podcast to talk about his book Money the True Story of a Made Up |
| 0:40.0 | thing. Talk a lot about the types of projects they work on on planet money, the history of money, |
| 0:45.7 | Bitcoin, and lots more, so stay tuned. It's a really great interview. |
| 0:51.2 | Jacob, thanks so much for joining us on the podcast today. |
| 0:53.3 | Oh, I'm delighted to be here. |
| 0:54.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:56.3 | Great to have you on the show. |
| 0:57.8 | We were talking about before the show started, |
| 1:00.3 | you know, Jason I are both big fans of NPR. |
| 1:02.1 | I feel like we're talking to the big leaguers, |
| 1:04.0 | and I've been in the podcast game. You've been involved with Planet Money for a long time. |
| 1:08.1 | How did you first get involved with podcasting and then with Planet Money specifically? |
| 1:12.0 | Well, what happened at the same time, basically, I was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:17.2 | I was covering health care there. |
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