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Chris Farrell

Chris Farrell is economics editor of Marketplace Money, a nationally syndicated one-hour weekly personal finance show produced by American Public Media. Chris is also economics correspondent for Marketplace, the largest business program in broadcasting and chief economics correspondent for American RadioWorks, the largest producer of long-form documentaries in public radio. He is also contributing economics editor at Business Week magazine. He was host and executive editor of public television’s Right on the Money. He is the author of two books: Right on the Money: Taking Control of Your Personal Finances, and Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall. Chris is a graduate of Stanford and the London School of Economics.

Latest from Chris Farrell

  • Question: Chris, My wife and I have been following your advice (and the advice of many others) for retirement investing for years. We have about 15…

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  • Earlier this afternoon, I posted a figure on the "getting personal" blog that investirs had withdrawn almost $68 billion from stock mutual funds,…

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  • Question: If everyone is withdrawing money from stocks, mutual funds, hedge funds and every place where they have money, what are they putting it…

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  • There's talk of a loan to GM and Chrysler to assist with a merger. But economics correspondent Chris Farrell tells Scott Jagow U.S. auto makers should avoid a government loan and just declare bankruptcy.

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  • Ross Levin is one of the nation's premier financial planners. He's based in Edina, Minnesota. Here's a sober bit of number-crunching:…

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  • Question: My portfolio contains some stocks that have cratered — and I don't expect them to turn around soon in this economy. Might it be…

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  • Oct 29, 2008

    Borrow to buy?

    Question: The stock market meltdown that we're facing today looks like one of the best stock buying opportunities that I am likely to face in my…

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  • Read and watch what three Nobel laureates in economics–Robert C. Merton, Robert Solow and Paul Samuelson–are doing with their money in light of…

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  • Question: Will you be writing of alternatives to 401ks in light of articles intimating the House is interested in the idea of nationalizing 401k…

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  • "Prosperity is just around the corner," President Herbert Hoover infamously remarked in 1930. The magnitude of Hoover's wrong forecast has gone…

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