Bryant Urstadt
Bryant Urstadt is the editor of Planet Money, NPR's podcast about economics. Planet Money specializes in taking complicated subjects, finding the people at the center of them, and turning their stories into entertaining narratives. He is part of the team which won a Peabody for reporting on the fake bank accounts scandal at Wells Fargo.
Before joining Planet Money, he was the features editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, which also specialized in taking complicated subjects, finding the people at the center of them, and turning their stories into entertaining narratives. There, he was part of a group which won numerous National Magazine Awards, for general excellence, as well as for single-issue topics like coding, and the financial crisis. He also oversaw online features, and helped build the Businessweek web site.
Before that, he was a full-time writer, and wrote for magazines like New York, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Harpers, Outside, Businessweek, and many other places, covering everything from hockey to derivatives.
And before that, he was an NPR listener who sent checks to his local member station.
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For our 1,000th episode: a (very) short list of listener favorites! that, if you just started listening, also does a good job introducing what we try to do every week. Thanks for listening!
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Planet Money's roundup of a crazy few days in economic news.
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The Netflix documentary is one of the most honest and interesting looks at trade between China and the U.S. -
Federer, Djokovic — and the debate between specialists and generalists. -
On today's show we answer questions about silver dollars, Venmo, and Brexit. Why? Because you asked! -
A truce in the U.S.-China trade war seemed close. And then the arrests started. -
Amazon is opening a new office in Long Island City, Queens. Critics of the plan say New York got ripped off from a big corporation. We spent a day in the neighborhood asking people what they think. -
We crash a party of central bankers to get an answer to one of the biggest economic questions of our time. -
You have a lot of questions... about tariffs, unemployment rates, and RV dealerships, to name a few. We have answers. -
An ancient financial arrangement, a death pact known as a tontine, may be relevant to today's understanding of insurance, and how it could be cheaper and more efficient.
