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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

  • 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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  • Oct 27, 2008

    The election

    The Iowa futures market now has Obama with an 87% chance of winning in November. The bettors at Intrade give Obama the same odds (even though there…

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  • Harvard University economist Greg Mankiw has a good column of the origins of the Great Depression in today's New York Times….

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  • …with good reason. Among the best columnists in the business, Nocera believes the banks aren't going to make new loan with the money they are…

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  • Economist Dani Rodrik, one of the country's leading international and development economists, thinks so. After a day like today it's a chilling…

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  • Oct 25, 2008

    Barton Biggs

    Peter Coy of Business Week has a good story on surviving the recession in the magazine's latest issue. He starts off with an anecdote from Barton…

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  • Oct 25, 2008

    Getting Personal

    Getting Personal
    Marketplace

    This week, Chris and Tess answer listener questions about withdrawing from a 401K and investing extra money made from a second job after retirement.

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