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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

  • Here is the press release put out by Treasury on its back-up plan for making sure that money market mutual fund money invested before September 19…

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  • After a week of chaos, we finally have a bailout bill. Economics editor Chris Farrell sets the story straight on the implications of the rescue plan in the coming months and years.

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  • Oct 4, 2008

    Getting Personal

    Getting Personal
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    Chris Farrell and Tess Vigeland take questions on your protections against an ailing market, from PODs to SIPC, FDIC to NCUA.

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  • Oct 4, 2008

    Libor

    Question: I hear that Libor's rate have gone up a lot. Is this the same Libor rate that adjustable mortgages are pegged to? Dan, Baltimore MD…

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  • Oct 3, 2008

    The House votes

    It still looks like the House will vote on the bailout bill today. I hope the vote-counters do their job before bringing it to the floor….

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  • I participated in a roundtable discussion last night with a number of Minnesotans, including a community bank president, a medical device…

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  • …at least not with "safe" money. The auction rate preferred market froze up. Now, a number of colleges and universities are scrambiling for cash,…

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  • Question: My son is 4.5 and I am thinking of starting a 529 plan for his college tuition (I know I am late to this). My question to you (I know it…

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  • As lenders become increasingly conservative, borrowers will grow more cautious. Scott Jagow talks to economic editor Chris Farrell about how the recession will promote a new, long-lasting wave of frugality.

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  • Question: If credit and money is so difficult to get right now, why are savings accounts still yielding only around 2%? Why can't we savers get a…

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