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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

  • Sep 24, 2008

    Fund 401(k)?

    Question: I am in my 30's and committed to a long term investment in my retirement. I have decided not to look at my 401k during this terrible…

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  • Sep 24, 2008

    Moral hazard

    I've always felt that the problem of moral hazard has been exaggerated. But this time, no….

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  • Sep 24, 2008

    How bad?

    A puzzle about the 1930s is how did a severe recession turn into a Great Depression. Much of the blame rests with the monetary authorities and,…

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  • One of the economist bloggers I routinely check is economist James Hamilton at Econbrower. He's an eocnomist at the Ujniversity of California, San…

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  • Now that Wall Street investment banks have disappeared and reemerged as commercial banks are the private equity buccaners like Kohlberg, Kravis…

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  • Question: I have a municipal mm mutual fund with Fidelity. It is spread across all 50 states. The prospectus shows that for instance Lehman is the …

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  • This is nuts:…

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  • Sep 22, 2008

    Barry Eichengreen

    Barry Eichengreen, political economist at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the leading scholars on the Great Depression….

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  • Sep 20, 2008

    Debt forgiveness?

    I haven't found much of the commentary criticizing the Bush/Paulson/Benanke engineered bailout very convincing. I don't think there is any doubt…

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  • Remember the Bush Administration's push to partially privatize Social Security? The privatization advocates warned that insolvency loomed unless…

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