Sally Helm
Sally Helm reports and produces for Planet Money. She has covered wildfire investigation in California, Islamic Finance in Michigan, the mystery of declining productivity growth, and holograms. Helm is a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop and of Yale University. Before coming to work at NPR, she helped start an after-school creative writing program in Sitka, Alaska. She is originally from Los Angeles, California.
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What does a member of the Federal Reserve Board actually do? We hear from two past members about the job, and the practices meant to keep decisions apolitical.
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Four years after the pandemic began, a small group of New Yorkers is still celebrating first responders. Each night at 7, they lean out their windows to make a big noise in thanks.
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The story behind two sneaky forces that drive us to buy more products, more often: Planned obsolescence and psychological obsolescence. -
After a wildfire, teams of investigators start combing the wreckage for clues. Finding the cause means, maybe, finding someone to pay. But where's the line between a natural disaster and a human one? -
Charles Dickens wanted to pick a fight with economists. So he invented Ebenezer Scrooge. But did he get it right? -
Two reporters walk into a haunted house, in this special Halloween episode.
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We rethink everything we know about government spending, taxes, the nature of money... All of it. -
You have a lot of questions... about tariffs, unemployment rates, and RV dealerships, to name a few. We have answers.
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A pesticide wreaks havoc. A listener needs a bitcoin detective. And the search for the rarest economic good continues. -
The U.S. and China have announced new protectionist tariffs, in what some fear is a trade war. We bring you the story of a bygone era of American protectionism: the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of the 1930s.
