Keith Romer
Keith Romer has been a contributing reporter for Planet Money since 2015. He has reported stories on risk-pooling among poker players, whether it's legal to write a spin-off of the children's book Goodnight Moon and the time one man cornered the American market in onions. Sometimes on the show, he sings.
Romer has also worked as a producer and story editor at ESPN's 30 for 30 Podcast where he reported on WNBA players who played overseas for a former KGB spy and — more gamblers — the World Series of Poker that launched the international poker boom. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker and Rolling Stone.
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Debates about who should pay for the U.S. Postal Service go back 50 years. It's a story of the long fight about whether the Postal Service should rely on Congress for funding or pay for itself.
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We go inside a professional poker tournament. It turns out some of the smartest players aren't just betting on themselves, but are actually staking their competition. -
At the time Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, a new social science was just taking root: economics. Dickens did not like it. NPR visits a high school performance of the play to understand the economic commentary laced throughout this holiday classic.
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Charles Dickens wanted to pick a fight with economists. So he invented Ebenezer Scrooge. But did he get it right? -
How one man took the onion market hostage. -
As the Federal Reserve considers whether or not to raise interest rates, they have a growing complication to factor in: raising interest rates doesn't seem to have the same effect on the economy that it used to.
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We crash a party of central bankers to get an answer to one of the biggest economic questions of our time. -
California just did away with cash bail. But credit where credit is due. New Jersey already tried something similar. -
What exactly would happen if you didn't pay your taxes? Today on the show, we follow one man who did just that. -
There's an art and a science to running a business that has to pay out money, like a casino or insurance firm. See how game shows craft the appearance of risk while trying to limit it.
