Keith Romer
Keith Romer has been a contributing reporter for Planet Money since 2015. He has reported stories on , and . Sometimes on the show, .
Romer has also worked as a producer and story editor at ESPN's 30 for 30 Podcast where he reported on and 鈥� more gamblers 鈥� . His work has also appeared in The New Yorker and Rolling Stone.
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What exactly would happen if you didn't pay your taxes? Today on the show, we follow one man who did just that. -
Bail is broken. In New Jersey, defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges banded together to try a dramatic solution: Blow it up. -
As long as there have been casinos, people have tried to cheat them. The latest attempt was by a group of hackers who tried to take down slot machines using math, iPhones, and a whole lot of swiping. -
Charlie Shrem went to prison for his involvement in Bitcoin trading. Now he's out and part of the next evolution of Bitcoin's future, investments that trade using Bitcoin's underlying technology.
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It's illegal for casinos in Nevada to take bets from out of state. But that didn't stop one subsidiary of a Wall Street firm from trying.
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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.
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Our reporter wanted to write a prequel to Goodnight Moon. He ended up on the phone with lawyers.
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When the federal government gives out social benefits such as food stamps, if you qualify, you get them. But housing vouchers are often distributed through a lottery.
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Employers often rule out applicants with felony convictions. Data show when the military made an exception and allowed people with felony convictions to enlist, they performed better than their peers.
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Big league poker tournaments put millions of dollars at stake for the players. But behind the scenes there is another money game going on, something of a mini-Wall Street.
