Alex Goldmark
Alex Goldmark is the senior supervising producer of Planet Money and The Indicator from Planet Money. His reporting has appeared on shows including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Radiolab, On The Media, APM's Marketplace, and in magazines such as GOOD and Fast Company. Previously, he was a senior producer at WNYC–New York Public Radio where he piloted new programming and helped grow young shows to the point where they now have their own coffee mug pledge gifts. Long ago, he was the executive producer of two shows at Air America Radio, a very short term consultant for the World Bank, a volunteer trying to fight gun violence in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and also a poor excuse for a bartender in Washington, DC. He lives next to the Brooklyn Bridge and owns an orange velvet couch.
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New Orleans has become a battleground for Airbnb. Preservationists want to save the city. Landlords want to open it up. Can either win without destroying the other? -
On today's show we answer questions about silver dollars, Venmo, and Brexit. Why? Because you asked! -
Parkinson's Law says work expands to fill the time allotted. Goodhart's Law says you get what you measure. Has anyone ever tested these laws of the modern workplace? -
Buying a lottery ticket is a bad deal. The odds are against you, even with a giant pot. But there was one time someone figured out how to flip the odds in his favor by buying all the tickets.
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The first lottery was a royal affair with poems, golden flatware and invited criminals. Also, how someone won the lottery over and over. -
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We rethink everything we know about government spending, taxes, the nature of money... All of it. -
In honor of our 10th anniversary, we revisit our very first episode. -
There's a simple way to solve the housing crisis in U.S. cities. Only problem is, almost everybody hates it. -
A pesticide wreaks havoc. A listener needs a bitcoin detective. And the search for the rarest economic good continues.
