David Kestenbaum and Jacob Goldstein

David Kestenbaum and Jacob Goldstein are correspondents with NPR's Planet Money team. Their stories, which are heard by millions of listeners on Morning Edition, All Things Considered and This American Life, explain the economy with humor and insight. The Planet Money team understands the economy by diving in -- and brings audiences along for the ride. They made T-shirts, and followed them from a Mississippi cotton field to a factory in Bangladesh and back to the U.S. again. They bought one of the toxic assets that nearly destroyed our economy -- and met the homeowners inside it. They ask weirdly interesting questions like "what is money?, which Ira Glass called "the most stoner question" ever posed on This American Life. In addition to his work at NPR, Jacob has written for The New York Times Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He has degrees from Columbia and Stanford, is the father of two young daughters, and can play the guitar and harmonica simultaneously. David Kestenbaum has been a correspondent at NPR for 15 years and holds a PhD in physics from Harvard. A Fulbright scholar and rock climber, David is the father of two young boys. He can't play guitar or harmonica.