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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 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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  • Economics editor Chris Farrell
    American Public Media

    As we watch global markets collapse, economics editor Chris Farrell tells us to take a proverbial deep breath and shares with Tess Vigeland his checklist of constructive things we can do in these troubled times.

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  • Oct 25, 2008

    TIPS

    Question: On a recent show, you suggested that investors should hold a significant amount of TIPS in their IRAs. I think this is a reasonable idea…

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  • Oct 24, 2008

    A margin of safety

    Comment: My husband and I are respectively 81 and 76. Luckily my husband is very conservative and has invested largely in CD's, bonds and TIPS….

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  • Question: With all this talk of the credit crisis, I'm wondering what's become of microlending and those microlending companies you've covered in…

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